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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe and agencies

Former top Trump aide says he was unaware of document declassification – report

Then president Donald Trump walks with then chief of staff Mark Meadows at the White House on 8 May 2020.
Then president Donald Trump walks with then chief of staff Mark Meadows at the White House on 8 May 2020. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

The former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told investigators he had no knowledge of Donald Trump either talking about or declassifying confidential information, it was reported on Sunday, potentially skewering the ex-president’s defense in his classified documents case.

Meadows’s alleged admission to the special counsel Jack Smith, reported by ABC News, suggests Trump made no blanket declassification of secret papers later seized from his Mar-a-Lago resort by FBI agents, leading to 40 criminal counts against him.

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