The former president’s team, Donald Trump, may not have delivered all classified documents which he took from him White House after the end of his presidency, even after the FBI search of his mansionas US prosecutors warned about yesterday, characterizing the whole case as one a potential threat to US national security which needs further investigation.
The Justice Department yesterday asked U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon to allow the evaluation of about 100 classified documents seized by the FBI from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion to continue, as it is being investigated whether they were illegally removed from the White House and stored there.
Trump, as APE-MPE reminds, is under investigation for the possession of government documents after he left the White House in January 2021. Some of these documents are classified as top secret.
The 100 documents represent a fraction of the more than 11,000 files and photographs seized. According to the administration, most of them are not classified so Trump could read them.
“This request is limited … to the classified documents seized because this dimension of the court order will cause the most immediate and serious consequences for the government and public opinion,” the Justice Department said in a related document it filed with the court.
Prosecutors also asked the judge to block the appointment of an independent expert to review the classified material seized from Trump’s mansion.
Trump, who posts on his personal social media platform (Truth Social), described the prosecutors’ request as wasted money.
The Ministry of Justice estimated that more classified files may have been moved from the White House that authorities have not yet identified. The revelation comes a week after the Justice Department released a detailed list of items seized from Trump’s mansion. The FBI identified 48 empty files that had been classified as classified and another 42 that were marked to be returned to appropriate personnel or a specialist adviser to the US armed forces.
Legal experts expressed confusion as to why the files were empty, and it was unclear whether files were missing.
“If the court order is not revoked, both the government and the American public will suffer irreparable harm from the unjustified delay of the criminal investigation,” the prosecutors wrote.
“The decision to impose an injunction against the use of classified documents in a criminal investigation is likely to hinder efforts to identify the existence of additional classified documents that have not been properly stored. Such a possibility represents a potential risk to national security,” the prosecutors added.
Source: News Beast
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