Former President Donald Trump's staff moved boxes the day before a June 2022 visit to his Mar-a-Lago residence by the FBI and a federal prosecutor, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CBS News.
Special counsel Jack Smith is overseeing the Justice Department's criminal investigations into Trump, including into Trump's handling of classified information after his presidency.
"This is nothing more than a targeted, politically motivated witch hunt against President Trump that is concocted to meddle in an election and prevent the American people from returning him to the White House," Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said of allegations that Trump employees moved boxes before a visit from the feds."...
"It doesn't go a lot on intent or anything like that. It's very clear that he had no business having those documents," Barr said."He was given a long time to send them back. And they were subpoenaed. And I've said all along that he wouldn't get in trouble, probably, just for taking them, just as Biden I don't think is going to get in trouble or Pence is not going to get in trouble.
Trump has defended his handling of government documents post-presidency, even those that are classified. Last year he said presidents have the ability to declassify documents"even by thinking about it." "I was there and I took what I took and it gets declassified," the former president told CNN's Kaitlin Collins in a town hall earlier this month.
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