WASHINGTON (AP) – Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers are dismissing his retention of top-secret documents at his Florida home as a “storage dispute.” His attorneys are urging a judge to keep in place a directive that temporarily halted key aspects of the Justice Department’s criminal probe.
In a motion filed Monday, the Trump team also referred to the documents that were seized as “purported `classified records,”‘ suggesting his lawyers do not concede the Justice Department’s contention that highly sensitive, top-secret information was found by the FBI in its August 8 search of Mar-a-Lago.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon last week granted the Trump team’s request for the appointment of an independent arbiter to review records seized during the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago.
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