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Mar-a-Lago papers keep turning into a bigger Trump liability

The documents saga around Mar-a-Lago kept getting worse on September 10, with Trump-world still trying to reframe a materials case that was increasingly looking like a broad institutional mess. The public record from the prior days had already laid out the basics: classified records, missing government property, and federal officials saying the former president’s team had not been straightforward about what remained at the estate. By September 10, the real screwup was not just that the files were stored there, but that Trump’s side was now stuck arguing over the search, the labels, and the process instead of the substance. That is how a lega…

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Mar-a-Lago papers keep turning into a bigger Trump liability

The documents saga around Mar-a-Lago kept getting worse on September 10, with Trump-world still trying to reframe a materials case that was increasingly looking like a broad institutional mess. The public record from the prior days had already laid out the basics: classified records, missing government property, and federal officials saying the former president’s team had not been straightforward about what remained at the estate. By September 10, the real screwup was not just that the files we…

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Mar-a-Lago papers keep turning into a bigger Trump liability

The documents saga around Mar-a-Lago kept getting worse on September 10, with Trump-world still trying to reframe a materials case that was increasingly looking like a broad institutional mess. The public record from the prior days had already laid out the basics: classified records, missing government property, and federal officials saying the former president’s team had not been straightforward about what remained…

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