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By late February 2022, the Mar-a-Lago records fight was still centered on a basic question: why presidential records that should have gone to the National Archives had to be pulled back from Trump’s Florida property at all. The Archives said it retrieved 15 boxes in mid-January and later confirmed that some of the contents were marked classified.
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By late February 2022, the Mar-a-Lago records fight was still centered on a basic question: why presidential records that should have gone to the National Archives had to be pulled back from Trump’s Florida property at all. The Archives said it retrieved 15 boxes in mid-January and later confirmed that some of the contents were marked classified.
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By late February 2022, the Mar-a-Lago records fight was still centered on a basic question: why presidential records that should have gone to the National Archives had to be pulled back from Trump’s Florida property at all. The Archives said it retrieved 15 boxes in mid-January and later confirmed that some of the contents were marked classified.
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