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Christina Bobb — the attorney for former President Donald Trump who certified he had turned over all the classified documents to the government after the end of his administration — spoke recently to federal investigators. On June 3, Bobb signed a letter attesting Trump’s legal team had done a “diligent search” and all relevant documents had been returned as requested by a subpoena filed in May. The certification would be proven untrue when the FBI determined the letter was not accurate and conducted a search at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. The investigators found hundreds of classified document...
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Former President Donald Trump claimed that “If you’re the President of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified, even by thinking about it,” during an appearance on Fox News’ Hannity last week. Trump was of course referencing the documents he took to his Mar-a-Lago residence, which were uncovered by the FBI last month as a part of a Justice Department probe into Trump’s possible mishandling of White House records. The search turned up around 100 documents with classification markings, and some are rumored to hold government nuclear secrets. The former President ha...
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The special master who former President Donald Trump requested in the Justice Department’s investigation into his possible mishandling of classified documents seemed skeptical of his claims that he “declassified” the documents before taking them to his Mar-a-Lago residence. Judge Raymond Dearie has been tasked as a third party to review the documents and determine which records fall under executive privilege or attorney-client privilege. Dearie indicated that if there are no criminal charges and Trump’s lawyers decline to formally say the records were declassified, and if the Justice Departmen...
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The Justice Department on Thursday filed an appeal to a Florida federal court’s ruling that allowed the appointment of a special master to review the documents found at former President Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago residence last month. Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, also blocked the use of the seized documents in the Justice Department’s investigation until a third-party official is appointed. “The application of the injunction to classified records would thus frustrate the government’s ability to conduct an effective national security risk assessment and classification review and could...
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Former President Donald Trump hit back at former Attorney Gen. William Barr following Barr’s Friday acknowledgment that Trump was wrong to take classified documents to Mar-a-Lago. “Bill Barr had ‘no guts,’ and got ‘no glory,’” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, his media platform. “He was a weak and pathetic RINO, who was so afraid of being Impeached that he became a captive to the Radical Left Democrats.” On an appearance on Fox News, Barr defended the Justice Department’s decision to utilize the FBI and execute a search warrant on Trump’s Palm Beach Florida estate. He added that he could...
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Former President Donald Trump asked a judge on Monday to appoint a special master to review the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into his possible mishandling of classified White House documents. The third-party attorney would be responsible for reviewing evidence gathered by the FBI in its search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence two weeks ago. If granted, the motion would also stop the government from looking further into the documents before the special master was appointed. “The Aug. 8 search warrant at Mar-a-Lago was authorized by a federal court upon the required finding of prob...
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Former President Donald Trump made an effort to get a message to Attorney General Merrick Garland before Garland was set to call for the warrant used to search Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence to be unsealed in a press conference. The message conveyed the underlying meaning, “The country is on fire. What can I do to reduce the heat?” according to the New York Times. It is unclear if Garland received the message before the press conference. Trump’s message was taken differently by pundits in the media. Some said the message signaled Trump’s effort to ease tensions while others argued that it was a ...
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In 2018, then-President Donald Trump signed a law that could be used against him in the Justice Department’s investigation into the classified White House documents he allegedly took with him to his Mar-a-Lago residence at the end of his term. Trump signed off on changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in January 2018, making the punishment greater for wrongly moving classified material. Before, the punishment was a maximum sentence of one year. Now, it’s five, but it remains unclear if the law would apply to former presidents. The Justice Department executed a search warrant on M...
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Attorney Gen. Merrick Garland confirmed on Thursday afternoon that he approved the Monday evening search of former President Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida. Garland also noted that the Justice Department has asked a federal judge to unseal the search warrant that was executed by the FBI to search the property, following Republican outrage over the first search of a former President’s home. It will list the items taken from the home as well as expand on the crimes Trump allegedly committed. Garland noted that he sought to make the warrant public “in light of the form...
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The National Archives has asked the Justice Department to investigate the handling of White House documents by former President Donald Trump. Earlier this week, 15 boxes of Trump records were transferred to the National Archives from Trump’s post-presidency residence at Mar-A-Lago. The boxes had been moved in the first family’s relocation to Florida. The request from the National Archives came among reports of torn up and taped-back-together documents after the boxes arrived. There are questions surrounding whether or not the former president complied with the Presidential Records Act which re...
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