A new DOJ filing laid out prosecutors’ reasons for seeking a warrant to search Mar-a-Lago, saying Trump’s team 'likely concealed' classified docs from investigators
Prosecutors obtained a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate after receiving evidence that there was “likely” an effort to conceal classified documents there in defiance of a grand jury subpoena, a new Justice Department court filing released Tuesday night said.
The much-anticipated court filing includes a photo of some of the apparently classified files recovered from Mar-a-Lago. | Department of Justice The submission to a federal judge in Florida opposes Trump’s request for an independent third party to review the records the FBI seized during their Aug. 8 raid on the former president’s Florida compound. DOJ urged U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon to oppose Trump’s request for a so-called “special master,” contending that his belated request was merely a bid to disrupt the investigation.
The Justice Department also noted that at a June 3 meeting at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s aides treated the documents as though they remained classified, never contending that Trump had actually declassified them and producing some in “a single Redweld envelope, double-wrapped in tape.” The Justice Department used the filing to forcefully rebut some of Trump’s claims about his interactions with the Justice Department and to unload more details about investigators’ private interactions with Trump and his lawyers. Among other details, the filing reveals that prosecutors took the matter seriously enough to ask the Washington, D.C.-based federal judge overseeing the investigation to permit the release of some grand jury information they had gathered in the course of the probe.
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