Trump attorney told National Archives boxes at Mar-a-Lago only held news clippings: reports
A former White House lawyer told the National Archives last year that boxes former President Trump took from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago residence only held news clippings, multiple outlets reported Friday.
The Washington Post first reported, citing people familiar, that former deputy White House counsel Pat Philbin told the Archives in a September 2021 call that Trump only had 12 boxes of news clippings at his Florida home, information Philbin said was relayed to him by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Philbin also said Meadows told him no documents had been destroyed, according to the outlet.
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The Archives retrieved 15 boxes of documents from Mar-a-Lago in January, finding 150 classified documents among them. Trump aides turned over more documents to the Justice Department in June, after the department began investigating the issue at the request of the Archives. An FBI search of Mar-a-Lago in August recovered another 27 boxes of documents, including more classified materials.
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JUST IN: Trump attorney told National Archives boxes at Mar-a-Lago only held news clippings: reports https://t.co/JZudSHE1YU
— The Hill (@thehill) September 17, 2022
Meadows told a WH Counsel lawyer Trump didn't have any records other than a dozen "boxes of clippings" according to people familiar w/the conversation.
Might be a good moment for Meadows to see if there's a deal available in exchange for his testimony. https://t.co/CIJ94aTjIj
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) September 16, 2022
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