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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Hugo Lowell in Washington

Trump lawyers say Mar-a-Lago boxes contained foreign leader briefings

The National Archives struggled to retrieve the 15 boxes for months after the end of Donald Trump’s presidency.
The National Archives struggled to retrieve the 15 boxes for months after the end of Donald Trump’s presidency. Photograph: AP

Donald Trump’s lawyers in the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation found the 15 boxes the former president returned to the National Archives a year after the end of his presidency mostly contained briefings for calls with foreign leaders, according to a new letter they sent to Congress.

The majority of the letter – seen by the Guardian and earlier reported by CNN – served to characterize Trump’s retention of classified-marked documents as inadvertent, and due to White House staffers sweeping all documents into boxes during a chaotic departure at the end of the administration.

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