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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Alex Woodward,John Bowden and Joe Sommerlad

Trump suspected of classified papers ‘shell game’ in Mar-a-Lago probe as Greene targets Ukraine

Reuters
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The US Department of Justice is reportedly investigating the contents and movements of a box that turned up at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property late last year, a puzzle that has allegedly grown central to a probe under special counsel Jack Smith into the former president’s mishandling of classified documents.

Federal investigators reportedly suspect Mr Trump or his associates of playing a “shell game” with sensitive documents, according to CNN.

The former president has meanwhile lambasted Emily Kohrs, the foreperson of the special grand jury in Georgia that investigated his election subversion attempts, accusing her on his Truth Social account of going on a “media rampage” as part of “a strictly political continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt of all time” and dismissing her interview tour as “ridiculous”.

On the anniversary of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the former president claimed that ending the war requires a meeting with both leaders to “knock heads”, while his ally Marjorie Taylor Greene demanded a congressional “audit” of US spending to support Ukraine.

Mr Trump, meanwhile, said ending the war requires “saying things” to both Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky “that they’re not going to want to hear”.

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