The former president allegedly sent ripped-up pieces of paper to the National Archives.
Judge Aileen Cannon has unsealed a series of documents in Donald Trump's classified documents case in Florida.The former president is charged with 40 federal crimes over his handling of sensitive material retrieved from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, after he left the White House in January 2021. He is accused of obstructing efforts by federal authorities to return them. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
'The White House Counsel's Office indicated that they would address the matter. After the end of the Trump Administration, NARA learned that additional paper records that had been torn up by former President Trump were included in the records transferred to us. Although White House staff during the Trump Administration recovered and taped together some of the torn-up records, a number of other torn-up records that were transferred had not been reconstructed by the White House.'3.
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