Trump Files Were Sought Months Ago to Assess US Security Damage
- Documents included some marked highly classified, letter says
- Archives says US needed to assess damage to national security
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The National Archives negotiated with Donald Trump for months as the government sought to assess potential national security damage from the documents he took from the White House, according to a May 10 letter from the agency.
Fifteen boxes of files returned by Trump in January contained more than 100 documents -- totaling more than 700 pages -- with classified markings, including some with the highest-level classification, according to the letter from Debra Steidel Wall, acting head of the National Archives and Records Administration.