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‘Ultimately irrelevant’: DOJ smacks down Donald Trump’s excuses for hoarding classified documents
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‘Ultimately irrelevant’: DOJ smacks down Donald Trump’s excuses for hoarding classified documents
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The U.S. Dept of Justice is trying once again to convince a Trump-appointed judge that it has an urgent need to continue its investigation of the 100 or so classified documents it seized from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort and residence.
Tuesday evening DOJ filed a motion explaining why Trump’s legal arguments don’t hold water.
Trump, the Dept. of Justice tells Judge Aileen Cannon, has never officially told the court that he declassified the 100 documents in question, while he has asserted that they are his, or more specifically, his records under the Presidential Records Act.
National security attorney Brad Moss says the DOJ is “smacking Trump for dancing around declassification and executive privilege issues without actually invoking them.”
By the language they are using, it appears they are almost mocking him and his attorneys.
