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1 verified report published on June 17, 2023.
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June 17 did not bring a flashy new Trump catastrophe; it brought something almost worse for him: the drip-drip confirmation that the classified-documents case was going to stay alive, stay ugly, and keep forcing his team to defend the indefensible. The surrounding spin was loud, but the facts were louder. That’s usually how the most damaging Trump stories work: not with one giant explosion, but with a string of smaller admissions that make the original mess look even worse.
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Trump’s lawyers have pushed a narrower account of the Mar-a-Lago documents case, but the indictment describes government records kept after Trump left office and stored in places including a ballroom, bathroom and shower, office space, bedroom, and storage room. The Justice Department says it spent more than a year seeking the records’ return before the August 2022 search at Mar-a-Lago.