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Hugo Lowell in Washington

Trump lawyer said to have been waved off searching office for secret records

Evan Corcoran said he was told that Mar-a-Lago’s storage room was the only location in which classified documents were stored and was waved off from searching elsewhere.
Evan Corcoran said he was told that Mar-a-Lago’s storage room was the only location in which classified documents were stored and was waved off from searching elsewhere. Photograph: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Donald Trump’s lawyer tasked with searching for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after the justice department issued a subpoena told associates that he was waved off from searching the former president’s office, where the FBI later found the most sensitive materials anywhere on the property.

The lawyer, Evan Corcoran, recounted that several Trump aides had told him to search the storage room because that was where all the materials that had been brought from the White House at the end of Trump’s presidency ended up being deposited.

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