The lawyers of former President Donald Trump have filed a request to the Federal Court of the Southern District of Florida on Monday so that it rejects the request of the Department of Justice to allow the documentation seized by the FBI in the Trump mansion in Mar- to-Lago, Florida, for his criminal investigation.
The lawyers argue that this documentation may not have been secret, that Trump had authority to declassify documents as president and that the mansion was a safe place to keep these documents, according to the text of the request, published by CNN.
Trump’s legal team has already managed to appoint a person outside the investigation to review the more than 10,000 documents belonging to the United States Government and that were in the tycoon’s Mar-a-Lago residence.
Lawyers for the Department of Justice have asked Federal Judge Aileen M. Cannon to suspend this review, warning that if they are not granted before September 15, they will file an appeal with higher authorities.
Cannon barred prosecutors from using the seized material until it is reviewed by a magistrate. This decision delays, at least temporarily, a high-profile criminal investigation into possible crimes for the management of classified information in the former president’s house and club in Florida, as well as the possible concealment, manipulation or destruction of government records.
Among the documents that FBI agents collected during the raid on the Mar-a-Lago residence in August have been some confidential files that would even describe the military defenses of a foreign government, including its nuclear capabilities.
Source: Europa Press
