Former U. S. President The U. S. Department of Defense will exclude an express set of seized documents from an investigation into its handling of government records.
Donald Trump will withhold from the Justice Department two files marked as containing correspondence with the National Archives and signature sheets the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago complex, according to court documents in the major special examination of the seized documents.
The former U. S. president’s claims of privilege The U. S. investigation, which appear to be directly similar to the thief’s investigation into whether he concealed national defense data and obstructed justice, are because they constitute an effort to exclude items from the investigation and keep them confidential.
In particular, Trump claimed privilege over the contents of a red folder marked containing “NARA letters and other copies” and a momentarily shackled folder marked containing “NARA letters and a 3-sheet sheet of signatures,” a review of court documents indicated.
The former president also claimed privileges over 35 pages of documents titled “The President’s Calls” that included the presidential seal in the left corner and contained handwritten names, numbers, notes in messages and 4 blank pages of miscellaneous notes, according to the documents.
Other things Trump is seeking include a 2017 letter related to former special counsel Robert Mueller, emails about voter fraud prosecutions in Fulton County, Georgia, and deliberations on clemency for a certain “MB,” Ted Suhl and former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. .
A user close to the legal team asked a spokesperson whether Trump claimed attorney-client or executive privilege in the files containing the National Archives letters. The spokesperson may not immediately be reached for comment.
The documents that the former president seeks to hide from the investigation of the thief by invoking some kind of privilege (it is not transparent if he announces executive privilege or attorney-client in either case, for example) have become transparent after a ruling through the special committee. on Friday. Master.
In the three-page order, U. S. District Court Judge Judge S. U. S. Raymond Dearie, appointed special master with a mandate to sift through seized documents for imaginable privilege issues, made public the unique identity numbers of documents for which Trump does not claim privilege.
Normally, the precise nature of the documents being claimed would remain private. But a glaring registration error made by the court earlier in the week revealed seized documents that the Justice Department’s “selection team” deemed potentially privileged.
By comparing the unique identity numbers by which Trump did not claim privilege with the inadvertently revealed list of potentially privileged documents, The Guardian was able to identify the documents the former president tried to hide from the department.
The special teacher ordered the “selection team” to move the unprivileged documents through Trump to the “case team” conducting the investigation of the thief until Oct. 10, according to the decision.
Once the documents are transferred, the special master wrote, Trump’s lawyers and the branch deserve to consult and verify any disputes related to executive privilege in the remaining files until Oct. 20, and then refer any notable issues to you for a ruling.