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Hugo Lowell in Washington

FBI materials seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home included 90 empty folders

Pages from a Department of Justice court filing on 30 August 2022, in response to a request from the legal team of Donald Trump for a special master to review the documents seized during the search of Mar-a-Lago.
Pages from a justice department court filing on 30 August, in response to a request from Donald Trump’s legal team for a special master to review seized documents. Photograph: Jon Elswick/AP

Among the items the FBI retrieved from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort this month were 90 empty folders marked classified or for return to the White House staff secretary or a military aide, according to a detailed inventory of items made public on Friday.

The inventory – unsealed by a federal judge overseeing the former president’s request to get a so-called special master to determine what materials the justice department can use in its investigation – provided the fullest picture to date of what Trump had retained.

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