Former president’s lawyers donald trump filed a motion with the Federal Court for the Southern District of Florida this Monday, thus rejecting the Justice Department’s request to allow it to continue. using documents seized by FBI At his mansion in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, for Trump’s criminal investigation.
Lawyers say that this document may not be confidential, Trump’s had the power to classify documents as president According to the request text published by the CNN network, the mansion was stated to be a safe place to store these documents.
Trump’s legal team has already managed to appoint a person outside the investigation View over 10,000 documents from the United States Government and that they were at the businessman’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
Lawyers for the Department of Justice asked Federal Judge Aileen M. Cannon to suspend this review and warned that they would appeal to higher authorities if they were not granted before September 15.
Cannon bans prosecutors from using seized material until examined by a magistrate. This ruling, at least temporarily, delays a high-profile criminal investigation into possible crimes related to the management of classified information at the former president’s Florida home and club, as well as possible concealment, manipulation, or destruction of government records.
Among the documents FBI agents collected during the raid on the Mar-a-Lago residence in August were some classified files that even described a foreign government’s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities.