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Former President Donald Trump appeared to contradict one of his key defenses for having top secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago home in a new filing from his legal team.

The confusion was created in the Trump team's filing in response to the DOJ's efforts to shoot down the former president's attempt to convince a federal judge to appoint a special master to review independently what the FBI had seized. In the filing, Trump's team agreed that any special master who is picked would need a top security clearance to review the records.

However, that appeared to go against Trump's defense that he declassified everything before leaving office. 

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