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Trump stash retrieved from Mar-a-Lago runs to hundreds of classified files

The US district courthouse for the southern district of Florida at West Palm Beach.
The US district courthouse for the southern district of Florida at West Palm Beach. Photograph: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images

Donald Trump has turned over to the government hundreds of documents marked as classified and improperly retained at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, according to a review conducted by the National Archives, the custodian of presidential records, and sources familiar with the matter.

The government has retrieved highly sensitive materials on three separate occasions: one set of documents facilitated by the National Archives in January, one set went to the justice department in June, and another set was seized by the FBI in a search two weeks ago.

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