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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump team claimed boxes at Mar-a-Lago were only news clippings
Here is the latest of many lies told by TFG
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Months before National Archives officials retrieved hundreds of classified documents in 15 boxes from former president Donald Trumps 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 Trumps 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. Trumps 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 Trumps mishandling of classified documents. Officials are seeking to understand what the Archives was told and whether Trumps representatives were honest, according to people familiar with the matter.
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. Trumps 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 Trumps mishandling of classified documents. Officials are seeking to understand what the Archives was told and whether Trumps representatives were honest, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Trump team claimed boxes at Mar-a-Lago were only news clippings (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
Sep 2022
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TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)1. The media should just stop reporting what he says.
He's a fucking liar. The only thing you should consider reporting is what comes out of his lawyers mouth In a court proceeding.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)2. Newspaper clippings....
that just happened to be contained within "Top Secret, Eyes Only" folders. Yeah, these were just extra Top Secret folders that were laying around the Oval Office.
spooky3
(34,484 posts)7. And "clippings" would be electronic these days Nt
Ocelot II
(115,878 posts)3. Looks like Meadows has a lotta 'splainin' to do...
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,631 posts)4. At some point, I keep expecting Meadows to flip
Ocelot II
(115,878 posts)5. Maybe he has. If he's talking to a grand jury, that's secret - for now.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,631 posts)6. I am not only one who is wondering about Meadows flipping
magicarpet
(14,181 posts)8. Well that settles it,... tRump's word is good as gold.
If there were any top secret documents found at Mar-a-Lago,... the only way they could have gotten there - is that the FBI planted them there.
Those bastards at the FBI framed tRump. Because they dislike him, and want to incriminate him, and make him look bad.
Criminal court case over,.. it's been solved.
Everyone can go home now.
Go arrest the FBI.
tRump is so smart, he solved the riddle, he is way smarter than Sherlock Holmes.
Anyone in the mood for a celebratory 18 hole round of golf ? The Orange Pustule is picking up the tab this time around.
spanone
(135,891 posts)9. Meadows should be in jail with trump.
Lying criminals.