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WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump's team may not have returned all the classified records removed from the White House at the end of his presidency even after an FBI search of his home, U.S. prosecutors warned on Thursday, calling it a potential national security risk that needs investigation.
That revelation came in a Justice Department court filing asking U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to let it continue reviewing about 100 classified records seized by the FBI at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate while it investigates whether classified documents were illegally removed from the White House & improperly stored there.
Trump is under investigation for retaining government records, some of which were marked as highly classified at his home after leaving office in January 2021.
The 100 documents represent a fraction of the more than 11,000 records & photographs seized, most of which the government said Trump may review because they are not classified.
Trump, in a posting on his Truth Social platform, described the request as a waste of money.
The Justice Department on Thursday suggested there could be more classified records that were removed from the Trump White House that investigators have not yet located.
Legal experts were perplexed as to why the folders were empty & it was not clear whether records were missing.
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