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Trump defense appeals against request for confidential documents

Lawyers for former US President Donald Trump on Monday opposed a request by the Department of Justice to continue examining the contents of confidential documents seized by the FBI from his Florida property last month in an investigation. crime in progress.

In a document destined for the court, his lawyers also asked District Judge Aileen Cannon to include the roughly 100 documents marked as confidential that were among the more than 11,000 records retrieved in the court-approved Aug. material by an independent arbitrator called a special expert.

In another development, the Justice Department indicted a Texas woman accused by prosecutors of making phone threats against Cannon, including saying the judge was “marked for murder.” The incident marks the latest example of threats reported against various federal officials in recent months.

Trump is under investigation by the Justice Department for withholding government records, some of which have been marked as highly confidential, including “top secret”, at his Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach property after leaving office in January 2021. The department is also looking into possible search obstruction.

The special expert, who has not yet been appointed, can prevent the department from using certain documents. FBI agents recovered the records during a court-approved search on Aug.

Cannon previously blocked the department from immediately using seized records in the investigation, a move that will slow down prosecutors’ work and make it more difficult for them to determine whether additional confidential materials may be missing.

Trump’s lawyers, in the filing on Monday, said the former president disputed the department’s claim that the 100 or so documents in question are in fact confidential, and reminded Cannon that a president usually has broad powers to declassify records. They did not go so far as to suggest that Trump had declassified the documents, an allegation he made on social media but not in court documents.

Source: CNN Brasil

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