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Trump lawyers push dubious docs claim

Donald Trump (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Donald Trump's attorneys conceded that he does not own his presidential records in their latest court filing, while also suggesting he declared those documents to be his personal papers.

The former president's attorneys downplayed the national security risks of keeping top-secret government records at Mar-a-Lago and said there's no evidence they had been improperly shared, but his legal team conceded those documents didn't actually belong to him, reported The Guardian.

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