It was very clear there was a high volume of documents and the ex-President was given ample opportunity to return them..
He then got his lawyers to say they returned them all...
There was every opportunity given to the ex President to return them..
This is a closer example how a mistake can happen and how to actually deal with it...
Clintons Return White House Furniture
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This is standard fair.. But look at the date, it is a very short time after leaving and first thing they did is return it and then negotiated and these weren't documents, it was more personal items...
Trump described boxes of classified documents as 'mine' and swatted away White House officials who tried to return documents from Kim Jong Un and Barack Obama, report says
Ex-White House officials tasked with representing the former president to the National Archives tried to recover the missing items, The Times said.
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