A lawyer for former President Trump said he was using a folder bearing 'classified' wording to block light from a phone keeping him up at night at Mar-a-Lago.
A lawyer for former President Donald Trump shared a surprising explanation for what the former president was doing at his Mar-a-Lago resort with aThe lawyer, Tim Parlatore, was asked in a CNN interview Sunday about what he said was an empty folder labeled “classified evening summary” that was given to investigators. Parlatore described the folder as “one of the more humorous aspects of this whole thing.
“He has one of those landline telephones next to his bed, and it has a blue light on it, and it keeps him up at night,” Parlatore said. “So he took the manila folder and he put it over it so that it would keep the light down so he could sleep at night.” "It is not a classification marking," he said. "It's not anything that is controlled in any way. There's nothing illegal about it, there's nothing in it."“They actually gave me a subpoena to say give us over this empty folder that means nothing,” he continued.
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