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Trump's legal team hired an outside firm to carry out the search
of his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey in recent weeks, and,
more recently Trump Tower in New York, the report said, citing
people familiar with the matter.
The team also offered the FBI the opportunity to observe the
search, but was declined, according to the report.
Trump's lawyers have informed the Justice Department that the
outside team did not find any new classified information during
their search, according to The Washington Post.
In August, an FBI search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm
Beach, Florida, found more than 20 boxes of government records,
including 11 sets of classified documents.
Trump faces a federal criminal investigation into his retention
of sensitive government records after leaving office in January
2021, including whether he violated a 1917 law called the
Espionage Act that makes it a crime to release information
harmful to national security.
Representatives for The Trump Organization, the Department of
Justice and the FBI did not immediately respond to requests for
comment sent early on Wednesday out of office hours.
(Reporting by Jose Joseph in Bengaluru; Editing by Frank Jack
Daniel)
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