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Norah-a-Lago f@ct check

Samuel Chamberlain and Alexandra Steigrad

Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the feds returned his passports that were taken by FBI agents who searched his Florida home last week — after “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell tweeted incorrectly that the Justice Department did not have the travel documents.

“The DOJ and FBI just returned my passports.

Thank you!” the 45th president wrote Tuesday on Truth Social.

Trump on Monday accused the FBI of taking the passports. Hours later, O’Donnell tweeted: “NEW: According to a DOJ official, the FBI is NOT in possession of former President Trump’s passports.”

But Trump rep Taylor Budowich responded by tweeting a screenshot of an email from a member of the DOJ’s National Security Division that acknowledged the bureau had removed the passports from Mar-a-Lago.

A CBS source told The Post on Tuesday that O’Donnell attributed the information to a single source — a big no-no at CBS News, which has a strict two-source protocol.

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