Lawyers for the U.S. government and Donald Trump disputed the former president’s ability to designate records as personal or presidential in documents unsealed Monday. 

Filed last week, and with portions still redacted, the two filings present dueling views of how and when a president may keep records out of the hands of the National Archives and Records Administration. The documents come weeks after Special Master Judge Raymond Dearie of the Eastern District of New York asked both sides “where’s the beef” pertaining to when and why Trump classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago home as his own. 

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