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2 verified reports published on June 22, 2023.
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Federal investigators subpoenaed Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage on June 24, 2022. The request itself did not prove obstruction, but later filings said the video showed boxes being moved between late May and early June 2022 and that footage deletion became part of a 2023 superseding indictment.
On June 22, the Mar-a-Lago probe still looked less like a one-time records blunder and more like an expanding investigation into how Trump’s team handled the evidence after the fact. The public record around the surveillance-footage fight made it harder for Trump to sell the case as ordinary bureaucracy or partisan overreach. The political damage is cumulative: each new detail makes the cover-up narrative easier to believe.