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You are lying again. This has nothing to do with Biden but you insist in sticking it to him to delegitimize him.
Here is the timeline again. LIE all you like:
2021
Jan. 18 Crews from a Miami news station spot at least two moving trucks at Mar-a-Lago that investigators said in court documents contained documents transported from the White House.Jan. 20 Mr. Trump makes a rushed and chaotic exit from the White House and Joe Biden is sworn in as president.
May 6 The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) begins approaching the former president’s team requesting missing presidential records. In the course of 2021, the archives and the Trump team had an extensive exchange about the disposition of the records from the former president’s White House.
Late December NARA is informed of 12 boxes ready for retrieval at Mar-a-Lago.
2022
Jan. 18 NARA retrieves 15 boxes of documents from Mar-a-Lago that the agency believes contain classified national-security information.Feb. 9 NARA refers the matter to the Justice Department. The FBI opens a criminal investigation into how classified documents became stored at Mar-a-Lago after Mr. Trump left the White House.
Feb. 18 The chief administrator for NARA reports the matter to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. Mr. Trump issues a statement saying: “The National Archives did not ‘find’ anything, they were given, upon request, Presidential Records in an ordinary and routine process to ensure the preservation of my legacy and in accordance with the Presidential Records Act.”
April 29 NARA tells Mr. Trump’s legal team it intends to provide the documents to the FBI, revealing in a letter that officials found over 100 documents with classification markings, comprising more than 700 pages. Mr. Trump’s lawyers cite executive-privilege concerns in requesting an extension, which the agency denies.
May 10 NARA tells Mr. Trump’s lawyer it will provide the FBI with access to the records as early as May 12.
May 11 The Justice Department issues a grand jury subpoena to Mr. Trump’s team seeking all classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and tells Mr. Trump’s lawyers they can comply by relinquishing the material at the premises along with a sworn statement that they had turned over all the requested records.
May 16-18 FBI agents review the 15 boxes and find classified documents in 14 of them, including 184 marked classified, 67 marked confidential, 92 marked secret, and 25 marked top secret. Some of the information was derived from clandestine human intelligence sources, the FBI says.
May 22 Ex-White House aide Kash Patel asserts in a news report that Mr. Trump had declassified the documents found at his home, offering the first glimpse into a possible defense.
May 25 Mr. Trump’s attorney Evan Corcoran writes a letter to a top Justice Department official laying out arguments for why Mr. Trump didn’t violate any criminal laws. The letter said Mr. Trump had absolute authority to declassify classified information during his presidency. “Any attempt to impose criminal liability on a President or a former President that involves his actions with respect to documents marked classified would implicate grave constitutional separation-of-powers issues,” Mr. Corcoran wrote in the letter.
June 2 Mr. Corcoran requests FBI agents meet him the following day at Mar-a-Lago to pick up the documents they sought.
June 3 Three agents and Jay Bratt, chief of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence and export control section, arrive at Mar-a-Lago to collectthe documents. Mr. Corcoran turns over an accordion folder containing 38 more documents marked as classified, including 17 described as top secret, 16 marked as secret, and five more marked as confidential. The former president stopped by, shook hands, and said: “I appreciate the job you’re doing,” adding: “Anything you need, let us know,” according to a person familiar with the exchange. A custodian of Mr. Trump’s records, Christina Bobb, gives agents a letter she signed saying that Mr. Trump’s team had conducted a “diligent search” after receiving the subpoena and that the documents turned over in the folder represented “any and all responsive documents.” According to the Justice Department, Mr. Corcoran said all the records from the White House were in the storage room, that no other records were in any other location and that all available boxes were searched. But the department said he wouldn’t let the agents look in the remaining boxes in the storage room to confirm no more classified documents were in them.
June 8 Mr. Bratt sends a letter to Mr. Trump’s lawyers telling them to secure the storage room and all boxes moved from the White House “until further notice.” He notes that Mar-a-Lago doesn’t have a secure location for the storage of classified information and that documents there “have not been handled in an appropriate manner or stored in an appropriate location.”
June 9 Mr. Trump’s team acknowledges receipt of the letter.
June 22 The Trump Organization, Mr. Trump’s family business, receives a subpoena for surveillance footage from cameras at Mar-a-Lago. That footage is turned over, according to an official.
Aug. 5 FBI agents obtain a warrant to search Mar-a-Lago, signed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart. The warrant cites an investigation into violations of the Espionage Act, a presidential-records law, and obstruction of justice. Investigators say they developed evidence that shows that “government records were likely concealed and removed from the Storage Room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation.”
Aug. 8 FBI agents search Mar-a-Lago, seizing 33 boxes, containers, and other evidence containing more than 100 classified records, including information classified at the highest levels.
