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This date sits in the awkward middle of the Trump era’s post-presidency legal spiral: not yet the full explosion, but far enough along that the fuse was plainly lit. What makes May 14, 2022 matter is not one dramatic headline but the accumulation of bad habits—stonewalling, improvisation, denial, and a reflexive contempt for institutional rules—that were already converting into concrete risk.
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By May 14, 2022, the Mar-a-Lago records dispute was already in a federal investigative posture. DOJ later said it opened a grand jury investigation on April 26, and the grand jury issued a subpoena on May 11 for documents with classification markings. A May 10 letter from the acting archivist said NARA would give the FBI access to the records beginning as early as May 12.