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Classified records: 700 pages retrieved at Trump home in January

A letter released by the United States National Archives and Records Administration states that former US President Donald Trump held hundreds of pages of classified documents at his Florida home after his term had ended [David 'Dee' Delgado/Reuters]

A federal records agency in the United States retrieved about 100 documents with classified markings, totalling more than 700 pages, from former US President Donald Trump’s Florida estate earlier this year, according to newly public government correspondence.

A letter sent in May from the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to Trump’s legal team reveals new information about the trove of classified material the former president held at his home at Mar-a-Lago. In those boxes, NARA had identified items marked as classified at the top-secret level as well as information about special access programmes, the letter said.

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