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Secret DOJ answer on Trump’s torn-up records finally comes out: report

The Justice Department twice declined to open a criminal investigation into allegations that Donald Trump destroyed presidential records, according to emails Bloomberg obtained . The emails, released through Leopold’s long-running Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, show that in February 2022, weeks after Archives officials recovered 15 boxes from…

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