Mar-a-Lago raid

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At least one member of Mr Trump’s legal team signed a written statement earlier this summer stating that all of the materials marked as classified which were stored in boxes at Mr Trump’s private Florida club and home had been handed over to the government, according to four individuals who spoke to The New York Times. The new defence coming out of Donald Trump’s office in response to the raid on his home is that the documents found at Mar-a-Lago had already been declassified. A statement defending the keeping of the documents at the former president’s private club was shared on Fox News on Friday by right-wing writer John Solomon. “As we can all relate to, everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time. American presidents are no different. President Trump, in order to prepare for work the next day, often took documents including classified documents from the Oval Office to the residence,” the statement said.

Trump news – latest: Lawyer told DoJ all classified material at Mar-a-Lago had been returned, report says | The Independent

"If Donald Trump gets arrested by the guy Donald Trump appointed for violating a law Donald Trump enacted, I'll start going to church," Media Matters research director Craig Harrington, evidently not a regular churchgoer, tweeted Wednesday. Harrington was referring to Monday's FBI search of the former president's Mar-a-Lago club, cleared by Trump's hand-picked FBI director Christopher Wray, and a 2018 law Trump signed that elevated the unauthorized removal and retention of classified government documents to a felony, punishable by up to five years in prison.

Trump increased his current legal jeopardy by signing a 2018 law on handling classified documents | The Week

• So the member of the legal team was lying or didn't know what he was talking about.
  
• It's illegal to bring classified documents home. Trump himself increased the penalty for this.
  
• Remember "Lock her up!"..