Timeline: The government's efforts to get sensitive documents back from Trump
Washington — Efforts by the National Archives and Records Administration to retrieve materials taken by former President Donald Trump at the end of his administration have spanned more than a year and a half, resulting in an extraordinary filing by the Justice Department in late August alleging efforts were "likely taken to obstruct" a federal investigation into the missing records.
The submission by the Justice Department came in response to a request by Trump for a federal judge to appoint a third party to review documents seized by the FBI in its Aug. 8 search at Mar-a-Lago, the former president's South Florida home. The judge granted Trump's request on Sept. 5, saying she would name a "special master" to review the material for privileged information.
In their earlier 36-page filing, federal prosecutors provided the most detailed look yet at the attempts by the Archives and Justice Department to retrieve the materials taken from the White House and brought to Mar-a-Lago, some of which contained classified and national defense information, they said.
The Justice Department is investigating Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents, as well as possible obstruction of the probe, prosecutors have said. The former president has claimed he and his representatives cooperated with officials trying to retrieve the records and alleges he declassified the materials at issue, though the accounts of FBI agents and prosecutors contradict those assertions.
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