Wednesday, August 17, 2022

The curious timing of Trump naming two allies to access his records - The Washington Post

…A full timeline of what unfolded before the FBI search is below, but June was a significant month for the government's effort to retrieve the material. 

By then, the Archives had already referred the issue to the Justice Department and a grand jury had issued a subpoena for the recovery of material. On June 3, a senior official from the department visited Mar-a-Lago along with several FBI agents, reviewing the storage room where much of the material seized last week would be recovered. They would soon ask that the room "be secured" — suggesting that it may not have been secured previously — and the material within it not be moved. 
A few days later, the New York Times reported over the weekend, a lawyer for Trump signed a document indicating that no further classified material remained at Mar-a-Lago.

On June 22, the Justice Department subpoenaed security footage from Mar-a-Lago, including near the storage room. Trump's team turned it over. 

"According to a person briefed on the matter, the footage showed that, after one instance in which Justice Department officials were in contact with Mr. Trump's team, boxes were moved in and out of the room," the Times reported…

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