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Biden’s Justice Department asks judge to hold Trump’s legal team in CONTEMPT for failing to comply with subpoena to turn over all classified documents
- Prosecutors have asked a judge to hold Trump’s office in contempt of court
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Prosecutors are asking a federal judge to hold Donald Trump’s office in contempt of court for failing to properly comply with the terms of a subpoena ordering the return of all classified documents.
Lawyers for the justice department have asked U.S. District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell to impose sanctions, according to sources familiar with the contents of a sealed filing, suggesting growing frustration over private conversations designed to ensure that the former president has delivered all the documents.
However, the Washington Post reported that the judge has yet to hold a hearing on the matter.
A day earlier, news broke that Trump’s lawyers had uncovered yet more classified government material that was removed from the White House, this time in a South Florida storage unit that housed material shipped in bulk from the White House.
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team is facing contempt of court as court disputes over the return of presidential records continue.
An FBI search of Mar-a-Lago uncovered 100 documents marked classified in August
A contempt order could carry a daily fine, which would have to be paid until the judge ruled that Trump’s team was properly complying with the subpoena.
The judge’s request to intervene follows the growing frustration of the Justice Department with the Trump team.
In June, the former president’s lawyers stated that they had conducted an exhaustive search of White House records.
Weeks later, FBI agents searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, finding 18 documents marked Top Secret, 54 marked Secret, 31 marked Confidential, and 11,179 government documents or photos that did not have classification marks.
Since then, the two sides have argued about how to handle the case. Sources told the newspaper that Trump’s legal team has declined to name a records custodian who would attest that all classified materials had been returned.
Trump’s spokesman, Steven Cheung, said the former president’s lawyers continued to cooperate with the Justice Department.
“This is a political witch hunt the likes of which this country has never seen before,” he told the Washington Post.
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Details of the latest twist emerged a day after news broke that more classified material was found at a Trump property.
Trump’s lawyers took an inventory of a storage unit in Florida after being asked in court to assert that Trump had responded to a government subpoena seeking government-owned documents.
That process led them to the storage unit, which was the destination for 3,000 pounds of items shipped from Virginia to Florida by Trump aides and government workers, according to the Washington Post.
“It was suits, swords, fighting belts and all sorts of things,” a person familiar with the unit told the newspaper. ‘As far as I know, it hasn’t even been in that storage unit. I don’t think anyone in Trump’s world can tell you what’s in that storage unit.