Catching up with Jack Smith's Mar-A-Lago Investigation
The Lawfare Podcast
Trump's Declassification of a Rash of Classified Documents
CNN's John Defterios reports that a tape of Donald Trump talking about declassifying documents was made in the summer of 2021. This is very early on, this is when he's still bickering with NARA. He lets NARA pick up 15 boxes at Mar-a-Lago in January 2022. They discover more than 100 classified documents in there. In June 2022, a J. Bratt from DOJ goes down to Mar-o-lago and finds 38 more documents. On August 8th, there is the surprise search of Mar-i-Lao where they find another more than 100classified documents. And there's one more event actually worth adding on to the end
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