Intelligence officials are currently reviewing the recovered files to assess risks to national security, and any disruption to that could jeopardize the review DOJ contends.” The prosecution team, led by DOJ counterintelligence chief JAY BRATT, also points out that Trump never once asserted executive privilege or declassified the documents prior to the search.Īs our Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney write, “Even if there were circumstances in which a former president could assert privilege, Bratt argues, this scenario would not come close. Trump and his allies have claimed executive privilege over the documents, but prosecutors rejected that assertion - arguing that executive privilege is usually invoked to protect communications from the legislative or judicial branch, not within the executive branch itself. And, notably, prosecutors placed a photo of some of the seized documents - strewn across a Mar-a-Lago carpet with their classified markings plain to see - into the public court record. It also claims Trump has no standing to sue because the records belong to the government, not to him. The DOJ filing says Trump’s request for a special master “is unnecessary and would significantly harm important governmental interests,” dismissing it as an attempt to slow down the investigation. 8 seizure and forcefully rebuts attacks from Trump and his allies - going so far to claim that “government records were likely concealed” from prosecutors and “efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation.” It is the clearest and most detailed account yet offered of what preceded the Aug. The 36-page document is chock-full of previously unknown information, providing an extensive timeline of how the government worked to recover classified material before the unprecedented search of Mar-a-Lago. THE ‘O’ WORD - Just minutes before a midnight deadline, the Justice Department filed a stunning response to former President DONALD TRUMP’s request for an independent review of the documents seized from his Florida home earlier this month.
| Department of Justice via AP DRIVING THE DAY 30, and redacted in part by the FBI, shows a photo of documents seized during the FBI's Aug. This image contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice on Tuesday, Aug.
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