- Former President Donald Trump took classified documents out of the White House and to his Mar-a-Lago resort - including some labeled 'top secret'
- The Washington Post reported Thursday on the existence of classified material in the trove of documents
- Trump is under legal pressure after the National Archives seized 15 boxes of materials and documents from Trump's Florida Mar-a-Lago club
- Trump says the transfer was done 'openly and willingly'
- In her forthcoming book Confidence Man, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman claims that staff believed Trump had been flushing pieces of paper
- House Oversight Committee is now probing the contents of those boxes and whether Trump adhered to the Presidential Records Act
- Official documents must be handed to the Archives at the end of their tenure
- Mini Air Force One replica and infamous 'sharpie' map among objects found
- Also included Trump's 'love letters' with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un
- Trump had a habit of ripping up official documents, causing his staff to have to tape them together or be turned over to the National Archives in pieces
- A weekend report revealed Trump also had documents put in burn bags to be incinerated at the Pentagon rather than preserved
Boxes were spotted just outside the West Wing in the days leading up to former President Donald Trump's last day in office
'Removing or concealing government records is a criminal offense punishable by up to three years in prison,' the congressional letter to NARA Archivist David Ferriero notes.
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