Washington
CNN
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Former President Donald Trump made a variety of false or unsupported claims in his initial response to the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago residence and resort in August. Five months later, Trump is now trying to use President Joe Biden’s newly revealed document-handling controversy to bolster his public defense – but he is still littering his commentary with baseless assertions.
Here is a fact check of three of the claims Trump has made in the last week.
Trump put forward a new claim in two posts on his social media platform on Wednesday. He suggested that the FBI may have inaccurately described empty folders it seized at Mar-a-Lago – folders he had kept as a “‘cool’ keepsake” – as actual documents.
Trump wrote that, as president, he was presented with documents in folders labeled with words like “Classified” or “Confidential.” He…
