NEW: Trump retained over 700 pages worth of classified records, National Archives says
The 700 pages of classified documents were situated in the 15 boxes the National Archives collected from Trump's extravagant Mar-a-Lago resort in January, acting U.S. Archivist Debra Steidel Wall told Trump lawyer M. Evan Corcoran in a letter."According to NARA, among the materials in the boxes are over 100 documents with classification markings, comprising more than 700 pages," the letter said.
Wall explained that she was informed by legal counsel to President Joe Biden that the White House had deferred the matter of whether the documents were protected by privilege claims to her. The letter, dated May 10, was revealed by journalist John Solomon on Monday before being released by the National Archives on Tuesday.
The National Archives's January collection ignited a Justice Department inquiry into Trump's handling of presidential documents after officials discovered classified material among the trove of documents seized.
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