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Timothy Parlatore told CNN that Trump was using a folder marked "Classified Evening Summary" to block the light from his bedside phone.

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  Timothy Parlatore, who represents Trump in both the special counsel investigation into the former president’s handling of classified material and the probe related to the   January 6, 2021, attack   on the US Capitol, confirmed that additional classified documents were found during a search in December and turned over to the Justice Department. “We’ve tried to do searches of all the relevant places, and anytime we’ve found anything, we’ve immediately turned it over,” Parlatore told CNN in an exclusive interview, painting his client as cooperative in the ongoing criminal probe. He also confirmed that Trump’s team handed over to DOJ an empty manilla folder marked “Classified Evening Summary” after receiving a subpoena for that item, which was found in the former president’s bedroom. According to Parlatore, Trump had effectively been using the empty folder as a lamp shade to block a light on his landline telephone that was keeping him up at night. “He has one of those landline telephone