The central reason that Donald Trump was indicted for retaining documents marked as classified but President Biden was not is that Trump tried to retain the documents once the government sought their return. This is not a matter of opinion; it is, instead, the distinction drawn by special counsel Robert K. Hur when he declined to seek charges against Biden. Trump was known to have documents and tried to keep them. Hence the indictment.
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Analysis | There’s new reason to think Trump still has classified documents
On Monday afternoon, CNN published an interview with a former Mar-a-Lago employee that bolsters one of the lingering possibilities surrounding Trump’s action: that he may still have documents at one of his other properties.
You will recall that the FBI’s 2022 search for documents was limited to Trump’s Palm Beach estate. The FBI gathered scores of documents from a storage room near the pool and from Trump’s personal office.
It was the third tranche of documents the government had recovered.
After grudgingly leaving the White House in January 2021, Trump moved to Mar-a-Lago, bringing with him a number of documents and mementos that he helped pack up. He also oversaw the return of a number of boxes of material to the National Archives, allegedly returning 15 of more than 70 boxes he’d brought to Mar-a-Lago.
The Archives found material marked as classified among the contents of the boxes and alerted the Justice Department. This led to the issuance of a federal subpoena for any material marked as classified. In early June 2022, attorneys working for Trump handed a Justice Department official a package that they represented was the entirety of the classified or marked-as-classified documents still in Trump’s possession.
That was not true. That August, the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago and found more than 100 more.
It has been understood for some time that the lawyers assembling the package of documents to be handed over in response to the subpoena were not given access to all of the boxes of material. Speaking to CNN, former Mar-a-Lago employee Brian Butler explained that, on the morning the Justice Department arrived to take possession of that package, he helped load boxes into Trump’s plane before the former president left for his home in Bedminster, N.J.
On June 2, the day before the Justice Department arrived, Mar-a-Lago employees including Trump’s valet Walt Nauta moved a number of boxes on the property, transporting more than two dozen to Trump’s residence before the attorneys began to search for responsive material.
Then, on June 3, Nauta reached out to Butler, who was in charge of vehicles at Mar-a-Lago.
“Walt had came up to me, and asked me if he could use one of our Escalades,” Butler told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. “Since I ran the car service, I pretty much kept control over the vehicles. I had loaded a bunch of the family luggage into a minivan, and I was just going to drive it to the plane, load it up, and that’s it.”
Butler saw people he later recognized as Trump’s attorneys at Mar-a-Lago that day. The attorneys handed over the package of material and were allowed to look at the storage room where most of the material was stored. They signed a document attesting that no other material existed.
That same day, Butler headed to the airport to load the Trumps’ private plane for the flight to New Jersey. Nauta had already left, Butler told Collins, and had asked to be updated when Butler was on his way. He was waiting “at a nearby business,” Butler said.
“I texted him, hey, I’m on my way. He followed me. He pulled out and got behind me,” Butler told Collins. “We got to the airport. I ended up loading all the luggage I had. And he had a bunch of boxes.”
“You noticed that he had boxes?” Collins asked.
“Oh, yes, they were the boxes that were in the indictment,” Butler replied. “The white Bankers Boxes? That’s what I remember loading.”
Butler helped load those boxes, between 10 to 15 of them, onto the plane. He told Collins that he never saw them come back.
It is not necessarily the case that those boxes included classified material, certainly. But remember the context: This is the moment at which Trump’s attorneys were turning material over to the government that they’d plucked out of a subset of the boxes in Trump’s possession. Perhaps the movement on June 2 was simply about moving unrelated material to New Jersey when the Trumps left. Or perhaps material was transferred to Bedminster.
We know that there was probably at least one classified document at Bedminster after Trump left office: the one he had with him in 2021 when he was speaking to writers working on a book for his former chief of staff Mark Meadows. That document, mentioned by Trump in a recording that was later published by CNN, purportedly involved military plans. CBS News reported in June that the document was not among those mentioned in Trump’s later indictment. His lawyers indicated that they were unable to find any such document.
His lawyers had conducted a general search of Bedminster for any classified material in December 2022, without success. Perhaps this was because there were no classified documents on the property. Or, as was the case at Mar-a-Lago the prior June, they simply weren’t given the chance to look in the places where the documents were kept.
That’s the fundamental divide we’re asked to consider. Is it a coincidence that boxes were moved prior to the arrival of attorneys looking for classified material and that, the next day, boxes were flown to Bedminster? Or might Trump have lost that benefit of the doubt at some point over the past few years?
There’s one other element of the Butler interview worth mentioning. Some time later, he was speaking to a friend and colleague, Carlos De Oliveira. Last year, De Oliveira was added to the original indictment targeting Trump and Nauta. Butler said that he and De Oliveira were discussing the classified documents case when De Oliveira said, “You know, we’re all dirty, we all move boxes.”
Butler replied that the only time he’d moved boxes was to load them on the plane.
Beirut, Lebanon – On Tuesday, representatives from Lebanon and Israel met at the US Department of State in Washington, DC – the first session of a two-day round of negotiations that Lebanese negotiators hope will end an invasion of their country.
The negotiations, which started at 9am local time (13:00 GMT), come as Israel’s invasion of Lebanon pushes deeper than at any point since the year 2000 and as Hezbollah and Israel continue to trade attacks. Israel has killed 3,468 people in Lebanon since March 2, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health.
With the war raging on, what do Lebanon and Israel have to discuss and will the talks lead to an end of the Israeli assault?
Here’s everything you need to know.
What will Israel and Lebanon discuss?
Similar to past meetings, the two sides are ostensibly looking to come to some kind of deal following fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, with strong doubts it will be achieved.
Lebanon’s government is still pushing for a total ceasefire. However, as talks started, Israel was striking various parts of southern Lebanon. Lebanon is also trying to get Israel to withdraw from Lebanese territory in the south, so that more than 1.2 million displaced people can return home, and so the state can resume finding a way to disarm Hezbollah and rebuild areas devastated by Israeli attacks.
Israel is meanwhile looking to get assurances that Lebanon will disarm Hezbollah, a prospect analysts say Israel knows is complicated by the continuation of its military operations and occupation of swaths of southern Lebanon. Instead, Israel appears to be trying to fuel sectarian tensions inside Lebanon, leading to chaos and internal strife.
What has happened so far?
An initial meeting took place in April between Israel and Lebanon’s ambassadors to the United States. A second round took place in May with a larger delegation on both sides.
On Friday, a meeting took place with Lebanese and Israeli military representatives, while Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese group, is not involved in the meetings.
Israel claimed the two sides found common ground in that they both wanted to see Hezbollah disarmed. Some Israeli officials suggested there may soon be trade agreements and an exchange of tourists between the two countries. Lebanon, however, said it preferred to find a deal closer to the 1949 armistice agreement between the two countries.
In the last meeting, Beirut reportedly outlined the damage done by Israeli attacks since the 2024 ceasefire agreement and presented detailed maps showing homes destroyed or razed by Israel.
Is there a chance for a ceasefire?
That remains to be seen, but for now, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country’s military would continue attacking Lebanon.
On Monday, Netanyahu announced that attacks on Beirut’s southern suburbs would resume, despite a ceasefire. Apart from two targeted attacks, Israel has not struck the suburbs, known as Dahiyeh, since April.
Iran, which has attempted to include Lebanon in a wider ceasefire between themselves, on one side, and Israel and the US on the other, then intervened by threatening to attack northern Israel.
US President Donald Trump reportedly intervened to stop Israel’s attacks. He announced another ceasefire, after his previous announcement of one between Israel and Lebanon on April 16, after claiming he had gotten the approval of Netanyahu and spoken to Hezbollah.
“There will be no troops going to Beirut, and any troops that are on their way have already been turned back,” Trump announced on his social media platform, Truth Social.
But attacks from Israel and Hezbollah are continuing.
How do Lebanese people feel about the talks?
Not everyone is on the same page.
Some Lebanese support the talks and say they are the only option the state, which has little leverage, has. Among those who believe direct talks are the best way forward are Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam.
“There is no option other than negotiation,” Aoun said in a statement on Tuesday.
Others, however, oppose direct talks. Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and his allies, Hezbollah, have said indirect talks are preferred and that negotiations cannot be conducted while attacks are ongoing.
How are Iran and the US connected?
Israel and the US attacked Iran on February 28, killing the country’s longtime leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iran is Hezbollah’s primary benefactor, and two days after Khamenei’s assassination, Hezbollah fired six rockets towards Israel on 2 March.
Hezbollah’s response brought a huge response from Israel, who have crossed the Litani River – the supposed buzzer zone in southern Lebanon it had created – towards the Zahrani River.
Despite a 2024 ceasefire, Israel had never stopped attacking Lebanon, while Hezbollah had only responded once in December 2024.
Iran has attempted to include Lebanon in the ceasefire deal it has with the United States and Israel, who say this theatre is not part of the agreement.
Although Trump has now announced a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel twice, the invasion of southern Lebanon continues.
Are there other actors involved?
Gulf states have also intervened. Saudi Arabia has been working behind the scenes to get Lebanon’s leadership – Aoun, Salam and Berri – on the same page. Meanwhile, analysts say Saudi Arabia and Qatar engaged the Trump administration to stop an escalation in Lebanon.
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A contract worker was killed by a falling tree on Monday afternoon in Washington County, officials said.
The Washington County Office of the Coroner said in a news release that the contractor was killed after the tree fell on them around 4 p.m. The worker, who was not immediately identified, was hired to cut down a tree at a residence on Lynn Portal Road in Canton Township, and it fell in an unintended direction, killing the person, the coroner said.
No other information was immediately released on Monday evening. The Greene-Washington Regional Police Department and the coroner are investigating.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
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