National security experts and former federal prosecutors have told The Independent the 15 boxes of records retrieved from former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence by National Archives and Records Administration (Nara) officials could pose a more perilous threat to his freedom and his plans for a 2024 presidential campaign than any investigation into his attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
Last week, Nara officials said in a statement that the records “should have been transferred to NARA from the White House at the end of the Trump Administration in January 2021,” and confirmed to the Washington Post that Mr Trump’s aides are still searching for more records which he retained after leaving office.
