Former President Donald Trump told to turn over ‘classified national security’ docs months before FBI raid
Former President Donald Trump was warned by the National Archives months ahead of the FBI raid of his Florida home that some of the records that had been turned over from Mar-a-Lago consisted of “classified national security” and"top secret" information.
This May letter was soon followed by a Justice Department subpoena, an early June visit to Mar-a-Lago by DOJ investigators, and, finally, the early August raid. The archivist noted that Trump’s late April letter asked for extra time to review the records handed over to the National Archives so that Trump “may personally make any decision to assert a claim of constitutionally based privilege.” Wall noted that Trump’s legal team had asked the National Archives to consider the April letter from Trump to be “a protective assertion of executive privilege made by counsel for the former President.
Wall also stressed to Trump’s lawyer in May that DOJ’s National Security Division had given the former president’s team insight into its investigation in late April. The latest report comes after Trump filed a motion on Monday seeking an order from a judge to appoint a special master and stop the Justice Department from further review of the information they had seized from his Florida home until the special master is appointed.
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