https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.561.4.pdfEnsuring compliance with the May 2022 Subpoena has been slow-going, prompting the government to seek and execute a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, additional government motions regarding inadequate compliance, repeat visits to this Court, and new searches conducted and updated certifications filed, with the compliance effort dragging into mid-December 2022, when additional classified documents were recovered from a closet in the [Trump] Office’s designated space at Mar-a-Lago.
Other evidence demonstrates that the former president willfully sought to retain classified documents when he was not authorized to do so, and knew it. First, even before the issuance of the May 11, 2022 subpoena, he deliberately curtailed his staff’s efforts to comply with NARA’s requests to return missing presidential records. . . . n the months leading up to January 2022, the former president reviewed only fifteen to seventeen of the boxes retrieved from his storage room before telling his staff, “that’s it,” and instructing WITNESS [redacted] to tell one of the former president’s lawyers that no more boxes remained at Mar-a-Lago. The former president knew at the time that he had only reviewed a fraction of the total boxes in the storage room, because his staff had showed him a picture of the floor-to-ceiling stacks numbering over sixty boxes. . . . The former president’s misdirection of NARA was apparently a dress rehearsal for his actions in response to the May 11, 2022 subpoena.