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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
John Bowden

Trump was warned FBI might search Mar-a-Lago for missing secret papers, ex-attorney’s notes claim

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Donald Trump’s own lawyer warned him against fighting the National Archives and Department of Justice over documents he had retained from the White House, but the ex-president chose instead to resist all attempts by authorities for him to turn them over.

That revelation was made by none other than Mr Trump’s former attorney, Evan Corcoran, in voice memos describing his conversations with his client that have since become evidence in the former president’s upcoming trial over allegedly mishandling classified information. Mr Trump has pled not guilty.

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