A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on August 28, 2022.
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Trump world spent the day trying to turn a classified-documents probe into a persecution narrative. The paper trail, though, kept pointing in the same direction: this wasn’t just a bad look, it was a continuing, self-inflicted federal headache.
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The redacted affidavit unsealed on Aug. 26, 2022, said investigators had probable cause to believe records with classified markings were still at Mar-a-Lago and that evidence of concealment or obstruction might be found there. Separate National Archives disclosures on Aug. 24 described 15 boxes of presidential records, including some with classified markings, and said some returned records had been torn up.