F.B.I. Interviewed Top White House Lawyers About Missing Trump Documents

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Source: New York Times

Pat A. Cipollone and Patrick F. Philbin, the White House counsel and his deputy under President Donald J. Trump, were interviewed by the F.B.I. in connection with boxes of sensitive documents that were stored at Mr. Trump’s residence in Florida after he left office, three people familiar with the matter said. Mr. Cipollone and Mr. Philbin are the most senior people who worked for Mr. Trump who are known to have been interviewed by investigators after the National Archives referred the matter to the Justice Department this year.

Mr. Philbin was interviewed in the spring, according to two of the people familiar with the matter, as investigators reached out to members of Mr. Trump’s circle to find out how 15 boxes of material — some of it marked as classified — made its way to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. It was unclear when Mr. Cipollone was interviewed. Mr. Cipollone and Mr. Philbin were Mr. Trump’s representatives to deal with the National Archives; they were named to the positions shortly before the president’s term ended, in January 2021.

At some point after National Archives officials realized they did not have Trump White House documents, which are required to be preserved under the Presidential Records Act, they contacted Mr. Philbin for help returning them. A spokesperson for Mr. Philbin did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Mr. Philbin tried to help the National Archives retrieve the material, two of the people familiar with the discussions said.

But the former president repeatedly resisted entreaties from his advisers. “It’s not theirs, it’s mine,” several advisers say Mr. Trump told them. The former president returned 15 boxes of material to the National Archives in January, but the Justice Department issued a subpoena in May for documents that were still at his residence. On June 3, counterintelligence officials with the Justice Department’s national security division went to Mar-a-Lago to collect remaining documents with classified markings.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/us/politics/trump-cipollone-philbin-interviews-fbi.html

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1. Oh. My. God. There are more documents that STILL haven't been returned.

The F.B.I. has reached out to about a half-dozen people who currently work for Mr. Trump and who might know what documents he may still have in his possession.

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5. Why do you think it took ten pall bearers

to carry slender Ivana’s casket? I’ve never seen more than 8, even for a huge man. Why do you think she was buried on the shitgibbon’s golf course?

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2. "It's not theirs, it's mine!"

Spoken like an unrepentant thief. Arrest and convict now.

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4. Sounds like his whole frickin' world view.

He's like a baby who just learned to crawl in order to grab stuff better.

It's MINE! Every two-year-old has said that at one time or other, I'd guess. But every other two-year-old outgrows that stage. There's only one elderly adult-size two-year-old who still has yet to do so.

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3. The use of the term "counterintelligence officials" pretty much indicates what's going on here.