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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

Bob Woodward undermines Trump excuse for not giving back secret papers: ‘He’s not busy’

AFP

Famed journalist Bob Woodward rejected the idea that Donald Trump was "too busy" to return boxes of classified documents that had been stored at Mar-a-Lago, recalling long conversations he had with the former president at the time while he was researching a book.

Mr Trump was served a subpoena by the Department of Justice in 2022 demanding that he turn over any classified documents he had taken from the White House after he left office in 2021. The former president and his team only returned some of the documents, which prompted an FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago last August. The FBI turned up hundreds of more documents that were still being stored in boxes at the golf resort.

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