onald Trump’s spokesperson claimed The New York Times engaged in “some of the most irresponsible reporting imaginable” after the outlet published a story claiming an aide for the former president moved around boxes at Mar-a-Lago before and after a subpoena to return classified materials — despite not knowing what was actually inside the boxes.
The NYT published a story Thursday claiming a Trump aide was caught on camera moving boxes “out of a storage room” at Mar-a-Lago “both before and after” the Department of Justice issued a subpoena asking for the former president to return all classified materials. The storage room in question was one of the rooms subject to investigation by the DOJ in its August raid, the outlet said, citing anonymous sources “familiar with the matter.”
The NYT states twice in its reporting that “it is unclear if the boxes that were moved were among the material later retrieved by the F.B.I.,” apparently indicating that the outlet is not certain that the boxes being moved had any classified materials that the FBI was looking for.
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