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Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Trump claims MAL docs were empty folders labeled 'classified' - Business Insider

  • Trump claimed that government records seized from Mar-a-Lago last year were empty folders marked "classified" or "confidential."
  • He went on to say that he kept the "ordinary, inexpensive folders" because they were a "'cool' keepsake."
  • The DOJ has released photographic evidence showing the roughly one hundred pages of classified records recovered.

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Former President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that the government documents the FBI recovered from Mar-a-Lago last summer were just empty folders marked "classified" or "confidential."

"When I was in the Oval Office, or elsewhere, * 'papers' were distributed to groups of people & me, they would often be in a striped paper folder with 'Classified' or 'Confidential' or another word on them," he wrote on his Twitter-esque social media site Truth Social. "When the session was over, they would collect the paper(s), but not the folders, & I saved hundreds of them."

He added: "Remember, these were just ordinary, inexpensive folders with various words printed on them, but they were a 'cool' keepsake." Trump also referred to the FBI as the "Gestapo"...



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