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Defiant Trump responds to bombshell DOJ Mar-a-Lago court filing: Ex-president claims his possession of ‘sensitive information’ shouldn’t have been ‘alarming’ for National Archives
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Donald Trump has submitted a formal response to the Justice Department’s explosive Tuesday court filing just before his 8 p.m. Wednesday evening deadline to do so.
The ex-president’s legal team is hitting back at the DOJ’s arguments against appointing a special master to oversee the classified documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago by the FBI during an unannounced search earlier this month.
The DOJ’s 36-page Tuesday filing is damning account of investigators’ attempts to recover classified documents that Trump improperly took home with him after leaving the White House.
It accuses Trump and his lawyers of having deliberately hidden records from investigators, claiming documents were ‘likely concealed and removed’ in order to ‘obstruct’ the probe.
In his Wednesday filing, Trump attempts to dismiss the very origins of the DOJ’s investigation by arguing his possession of ‘sensitive’ documents should not have been concerning for the National Archives – which first raised alarms about the ex-president’s handling of classified documents in January 2021.
‘The purported justification for the initiation of this criminal probe was the alleged discovery of sensitive information contained within the 15 boxes of Presidential records,’ the court papers state.
‘But this “discovery” was to be fully anticipated given the very nature of Presidential records. Simply put, the notion that Presidential records would contain sensitive information should have never been cause for alarm.’
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