Trump “has one of those landline telephones next to his bed, and it has a blue light on it, and it keeps him up at night. So he took the manilla folder and put it over so it would keep the light down so he could sleep at night.”
that the former president had been using one particular item of interest to the DOJ as a lamp shade.
“He has one of those landline telephones next to his bed, and it has a blue light on it, and it keeps him up at night. So he took the manilla folder and put it over so it would keep the light down so he could sleep at night,” Parlatore said. “It’s just this folder. It says ‘Classified Evening Summary’ on it. It’s not a classification marking. It’s not anything that is controlled in any way. There is nothing illegal about it.
Parlatore told CNN that he and the rest of Trump’s legal team have completed their search of the former president’s properties and returned what they found to the DOJ, which had issued a subpoena for the “Classified Evening Summary” folder. Regardless of whether the folder the bore an official classification marking, the fact that Trump was using it as a lamp shade speaks to the haphazard nature of his document handling after leaving the White House.
The FBI found classified material intermixed with other media during its raid of Mar-a-Lago in August, and Trump’s lawyers later in a West Palm Beach storage room that was also filled with “suits and swords and wrestling belts and all sorts of things,” a source told
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