APO.Eagles: Trump Bedminster doc mystery solved

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Trump's lawyers couldn't find the Bedminster document. Now we know why.

By Hayes Brown

One of the new charges against Donald Trump in the classified documents case adds onto the 31 counts of "willful retention of national defense information" that he'd already be hit with.

Specifically, he's now charged with holding onto the document he'd been waving around in the now-infamous Bedminster meeting in 2021. Helpfully, that's made obvious in the text of the newly released charging document: "The document that TRUMP possessed and showed on July 21, 2021, is charged as Count 32 in this Superseding Indictment."

Interestingly, the counts against Trump related to his keeping the classified documents all list the "dates of the offense," or when the alleged crime took place.

This is a preview of Hayes Brown's latest article. For more coverage of Trump's new charges, read our live blog.

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