****Breaking**** Trump consigliere told DOJ boxes of classified documents were press clippings

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Per CNN

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1. Here you go

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/16/trump-records-archives-clippings/

Months before National Archives officials retrieved hundreds of classified documents in 15 boxes from former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club, they were told that none of the material was sensitive or classified and that Trump had only 12 boxes of “news clippings,” according to people familiar with the conversations between Trump’s team and the Archives.

During a September 2021 phone call with top Archives lawyer Gary Stern, former deputy White House counsel Pat Philbin offered reassuring news: Philbin said he had talked to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who made the assertion about the dozen boxes of clippings, the people familiar with the call said. Trump’s team was aware of no other materials, Philbin said, relaying information he said he got from Meadows.

The characterization made in the call vastly misrepresented the scale and variety of documents, including classified records, eventually recovered by the Archives or the FBI.

Philbin said that Meadows also told him no documents had been destroyed, according to two people with knowledge of the call and a third person with knowledge of Stern’s contemporaneous account of the call. These and other people spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose internal details...

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Trump team claimed boxes at Mar-a-Lago were only news clippings

Here is the latest of many lies told by TFG

Link to tweet

Months before National Archives officials retrieved hundreds of classified documents in 15 boxes from former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club, they were told that none of the material was sensitive or classified and that Trump had only 12 boxes of “news clippings,” according to people familiar with the conversations between Trump’s team and the Archives.

During a September 2021 phone call with top Archives lawyer Gary Stern, former deputy White House counsel Pat Philbin offered reassuring news: Philbin said he had talked to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who made the assertion about the dozen boxes of clippings, the people familiar with the call said. Trump’s team was aware of no other materials, Philbin said, relaying information he said he got from Meadows.

The characterization made in the call vastly misrepresented the scale and variety of documents, including classified records, eventually recovered by the Archives or the FBI......

The new details about the Philbin call show that Meadows was more deeply involved in the communications with Archives officials than previously known. Some White House advisers had previously said Meadows was deeply involved in the final packing at the White House.

The Justice Department has conducted interviews with Archives officials and subpoenaed documents from the Archives as a part of their probe into Trump’s mishandling of classified documents. Officials are seeking to understand what the Archives was told and whether Trump’s representatives were honest, according to people familiar with the matter.

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7. "whether Trump's representatives were honest"

Ooh! Ask me, ask me! I know the answer!

[brer cat]

3. K&R

[Initech]

4. There. Is. Always. An. Excuse. With. These. Clowns. Always.

[SergeStorms]

5. Mark Meadows...

is the designated patsy for Trump's crimes. Trump had no idea what was in those boxes, it was all Meadows' doing!

And there you have it, the latest patsy to be thrown under Trump's seemingly miles-long-bus: Mark Meadows.

[Lovie777]

6. LOL ......

shithole's cult will always believe the lies. The sane ones knows the difference.

P.S. shithole declassified newspaper clippings, oh my

WOW

[MadameButterfly]

8. lying to the DOJ

is a crime, yes? PLeeeeeeze!

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9. Was Meadows at that fake golf outing?