Trump attorneys reveal Mar-a-Lago classified documents contained notes from calls with foreign leaders: Ex-President's lawyers suggest White House staff 'swiped' files from his desk and DOJ should 'stand down' over 'botched investigation'
Trump's attorneys wrote to House Intelligence Chair Mike Turner urging Congress to get more involved in the classified documents investigation
The foreign leader call notes were included in 15 boxes of classified documents from Mar-a-Lago that attorneys handed over months before the raid
By Kelly Laco For Dailymail.Com
Published: 18:54 EDT, 26 April 2023 | Updated: 19:17 EDT, 26 April 2023
Classified documents from Mar-a-Lago contained notes prepared for former President Trump's calls with foreign leaders, according to a letter from Trump attorneys obtained by DailyMail.com in which they also lambasted the Department of Justice for conducting a 'botched' investigation.
A scathing letter from Trump's attorneys Timothy Parlatore, Jim Trusty, John Rowley and Lindsey Halligan was sent to House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner, R-Ohio, Wednesday.
They slammed the Department of Justice's handling of the investigation thus far and encouraged Congress to take a more active role in the matter.
The letter, first reported by CNN, says that there were 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago that Trump's attorneys handed over to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in January 2022. Additional documents were seized by the FBI and handed over to NARA after a raid of Mar-a-Lago months laster in August 2022.
Two of Trump's lawyers, Trusty and Parlatore, were able to review the contents of the 15 boxes earlier this year and saw 'placeholder pages' where classified materials were removed by the archives.
'The boxes contain all manner of documents from the White House, are loosely grouped by date, and include newspapers, magazines, notes, letters, and daily schedules,' they wrote in the letter. 'Following its review of the materials, NARA inserted placeholder pages where it had removed documents with classification markings.'
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