[PGR88]

After months of what can only be described as harassment by the National Archives, including Obama-appointed archivist David Ferriero, throughout 2021 to demand the return of alleged government records, Trump gave 15 boxes of papers to the archives in January 2022.

Archive officials immediately claimed they found material with “classified markings” among the boxes’ contents. That prompted for the first time ever the archives sending a criminal referral to the DOJ in February 2022. Smith indicted Trump and Nauta in June 2023; the following month, Smith added De Olivera and additional charges in a superseding indictment.

I need help from someone very familiar with this case

If Trump returned these "15 boxes," what then was seized at Mar-a-Lago? How did NARA know overall what documents were, and were not, at Mar-a-Lago?

I read somewhere that NARA then turned-around and returned these (and other) materials to Trump, whereupon the DOJ/FBI then raided Mar-a-Lago because Trump was keeping these documents there. It seems absolutely absurd and Kafkaesque.

Where can one find a good summary of the actual status and movement of these documents?

[pepsi_junkie]

I think it’s fascinating that the democrats managed to weaponize a library. They might be evil but their unethical and amoral plans are clever ideas. They work against almost everyone they want to take out. Trump, however, seems to have some mystical powers to gum them up every time.

[cpdiii]

"Where can one find a good summary of the actual status and movement of these documents? "

That is somewhat murky. Repeat after me, "spoliation of evidence thus not admissible to the court."

[Political Junkie Too]

The tl;dr summary is that NARA had boxes of documents from the Trump White House that were boxed up by GSA staffers and sitting on a pallet in a warehouse that NARA wanted to get rid of. They notified the Biden administration and then shipped the boxes to Mar-a-Lago. These are the boxes that the FBI raided after NARA sent them to Trump.

Here is a start: NEW: Judge Cannon Unseals Unredacted Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant Affidavit.

Within that article is this link: Julie Kelly: So an entire pallet full of boxes that had been held by GSA somewhere outside of DC is dumped at Mar-a-Lago. Apparently these are the boxes that ended up containing papers with "classified markings."

See the Jack Smith documents describing the coordination between NARA and the Biden White House Counsel.

NEW: Thanks to order by Judge Cannon, key evidence related to classified docs case is now unredacted.

You'll have to dig up the rest. This is as far as I cared to look a few weeks ago.

-PJ