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Trump's lawyers suggest seized documents may not be classified

Source: Washington Post

Lawyers for former president Donald Trump filed court papers Monday arguing against any pause in a judge’s order for a special master to review documents seized at Mar-a-Lago last month, suggesting that some of the documents in question may not be classified and that Trump may have the right to keep them in his possession.

“In what at its core is a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control, the Government wrongfully seeks to criminalize the possession by the 45th President of his own Presidential and personal records,” the Trump lawyers wrote, arguing that prosecutors are trying to limit any outside review of “what it deems are ‘classified records’.”

The filing was in response to the Justice Department’s request for U.S. District Court Judge Aileen M. Cannon to temporarily suspend parts of her ruling appointing a special master to review the contents of more than two dozen boxes and other items seized at Trump’s club and residence on Aug. 8. Federal prosecutors have asked that the judge withhold her prior ruling that the FBI not use the more than 100 classified documents seized in the search until they are reviewed by an outside legal expert.

The government also asked Cannon to exempt the classified documents from review by the outside expert, known as a special master, saying that requiring such a review would unnecessarily complicate the national security issues in the high-profile case. In the new filing, Trump’s lawyers disagree, charging that prosecutors are overstating the national-security concerns and that “there is no indication any purported ‘classified records’ were disclosed to anyone.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/12/trump-classified-special-master/

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