Trump case: Government asks the judge to continue reviewing the documents

The lawyers of the United States Government in the lawsuit filed by former President Donald Trump for the search of his mansion in Florida reiterated their request to the judge in the case to allow them to continue reviewing and investigating the seized material that is classified as secret or classified .

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In a document added to the file in the last few hours, prosecutor Juan Antonio Gonzalez maintains that the Government’s request for the judge to suspend part of the order by which on September 5 he accepted the appointment of a special expert, as requested by Trump, to review the documents recovered in a former president’s mansion “seeks limited but critical repair”.

Specifically, the part of the judicial order that the Government wants not to be applied until the Eleventh District Court of Appeals rules is the prohibition of continuing to review the seized material or use it in the framework of the criminal investigation opened against Trump until that the special expert does not finish his analysis or until a new court order.

González indicated in the document that they just want to continue driving “just over 100 records marked as classified”whose “unauthorized retention may constitute a crime” and whose disclosure could cause “harm to national security, including ‘exceptionally serious harm'”.

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On August 8, as part of an open investigation into Trump, FBI agents searched the former president’s offices in Mar-a-Lago (Palm Beach, Florida) and found a significant number of documents, some of them with labels that they were saying “top secret”, “secret”, or “classified”.

The former Republican president (2017-2021) responded by suing the Government in the Palm Beach courts. The case fell on Aileen Cannon, a judge born in Colombia and appointed precisely by Trump when he was in the White House.

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Cannon’s decision to accept the appointment of an independent expert to review the documents found at Mar-a-Lago, as requested by Trump, earned him widespread criticism.

Among other reasons for asking Judge Cannon to put part of her order on hold, the prosecutor says that “the plaintiff (Trump) cannot plausibly establish any right of ownership or privilege” in the seized documents.

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According to González, when Trump said that it is a case of “document storage”, similar to an “overdue library book scenario”, he left out “the potential damage that could be caused by the mishandling of classified information or the strict requirements imposed by law for the handling of such materials”.

The prosecutor also assures that there are “irremediable” damages for the Government and the public “as long as the Court Order regarding those records remains in force.” To the contrary, he adds, “the partial stay would not impose any knowable harm on the plaintiff.”

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González’s brief responds to another of Trump’s lawyers in which they asked the judge not to let the government “skip the process” and reject the request to partially suspend his order.

EFE