New evidence shows a federal records agency in the US retrieved more than 100 pages of classified documents from Donald Trump's Florida residence in January.
The letter shows that Mr Trump's legal team repeatedly tried to stall the Archives from letting the FBI and intelligence officials review the materials, saying he needed more time to determine if any of the records were covered by a doctrine called executive privilege that enabled a president to shield some records.
The August 8 search was part of a federal investigation into whether Mr Trump illegally removed documents from the White House when he left office in January 2021 after his failed 2020 re-election bid and whether he tried to obstruct the government's investigation into the removal of the records. Donald Trump asked a US federal court to block the FBI from reviewing materials seized from his Mar-a-Lago home just days ago.
A special master is an independent third party sometimes appointed in sensitive cases to review documents seized in a search, particularly if the records could be protected by attorney-client privilege. Legal experts said the Trump document investigation differed from those cases because the records at issue belonged to the federal government.
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