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Hugo Lowell in Washington

Trump requests to review classified documents at Mar-a-Lago ahead of trial

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. Photograph: Giorgio Viera/AFP/Getty Images

Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a federal judge on Wednesday to approve the re-establishment of an ultra-secure facility at his Mar-a-Lago club to review classified documents produced to him in discovery, an audacious request without precedent in national security cases.

The request essentially would give Trump the freedom to discuss and review the same classified documents he has been charged with illegally retaining in the same location where the alleged crimes took place.

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