It was updated on August 24, 2022, 11:43am.
According to a Wednesday Wall Street Journal report, Donald Trump told the National Archives that he planned to put the documents in his library.
The residence of the former President is shown.
The New York Times reported earlier this week that Trump had described the documents as "mine," while the Journal reported that he had argued for months that he should be allowed to have the documents.
The former president tried to delay the FBI's review of records the National Archives recovered from the president's Mar-a-Lago home in January because Trump's lawyers wanted more time to figure out if the records were protected by executive privilege.
The Post reported that Trump didn't give back any classified records in addition to the ones recovered in January.
The news came after Trump's lawyers claimed in court that the former president had cooperated with the DOJ.
Some of the records seized in the Mar-a-Lago search are among the most sensitive secrets we hold, according to a person familiar with the search.
There are more than 300 According to the New York Times, more than 150 documents were seized by the government from Trump in January.
According to the search warrant released by the Justice Department, the FBI broke into Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence on August 8 and seized 20 boxes of documents, including classified records. The Mar-a-Lago property was being investigated by the Justice Department into why boxes of government records were being held there. In February, the National Archives said it had recovered 15 boxes from Trump's house. White House documents must be given to the National Archives after a president leaves office. After serving a grand jury subpoena and spending months trying to negotiate with the former president to get the documents back, federal agents raided the property. The documents taken from Mar-a-Lago should be reviewed by a special master.
A federal judge last week ordered the Justice Department to send a redacted version of the affidavit federal officials used to obtain a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago. Several media outlets have argued that the affidavit should be made public.
The FBI searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago for evidence.
The FBI searched Mar-a-Lago after months of resistance by the president.
There were more than 300 classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
A judge is set to release part of a search affidavit.
Here are the key events as reported by the report.
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