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Mar-a-Lago docs fight turns into an obstruction problem
The Justice Department used an August 31 filing to argue that the Mar-a-Lago documents case was no longer just about missing records. Prosecutors said there was evidence government records were likely concealed and removed from a storage room, and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation. That is a much darker frame than a simple custody dispute over paperwork. Trump’s side kept pushing the line that the records should have been treated as presidential material all along, but that argument only highlighted how messy and legally dangerous the whole episode had become.