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On a thin but consequential day, the pattern was the story: Trump’s post-presidency conduct kept converting into formal process, and formal process has a way of ruining the vibe. The screwup wasn’t just that the boxes were messy; it was that the mess was now drawing the machinery of the state, and the machinery was getting louder.
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By April 30, 2022, the Mar-a-Lago records matter was no longer just an archives fight. Official records show that after the National Archives referred the case to the Justice Department on February 9, 2022, the FBI opened a criminal investigation and the government began treating the handling of the boxes as a potential federal crime problem.