The former president, seen at the Dulles airport in casual clothes, wants taxpayers to pay at least half of the costs of the legal process on the documents seized in the Mar-a-Lago mansion
Donald Trump’s surprise landing in Washington on Sunday, where he traveled from his residence in New Jersey, without a clear reason for his visit, unleashed a flood of speculation that linked it to his legal problems. The former president, who was seen at the Dulles airport dressed in casual clothes and golf shoes next to his Secret Service, put to rest the rumors by clarifying later that he was at his National Golf Club in Potomac Falls, Virginia.
Meanwhile, the legal team of the former president has requested that taxpayers pay at least half of the legal bill for the application process of a special magistrate, who intends to disqualify the Government from using the documents seized in the mansion of Mar as evidence against him. -a-Lake.
The Department of Justice, -whose investigation is momentarily stopped due to the order of a pro-Trump judge, appointed under his Administration, to establish a special magistrate to supervise the documents-, indicated that the former president should pay all legal costs of a process requested by himself. In the latest episode of the legal battle, the government doubled its stake in a motion on Monday demanding that its access to the documents be restored, or else it will take the case to a higher court.
The Department of Justice invoked the Presidential Records Act (PRA), which establishes that the documents stolen from the Government belong to the State, and their separation from them is inviolable and is not subject to questioning by any court or anyone else. The legal counter-argument of Trump’s lawyers in this tortuous case is that these are presidential documents covered by executive privilege. A fictitious argument that also ignores the Espionage Law, by virtue of which the classified material was precisely seized.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee, for its part, has requested documentation on the seized top-secret material that includes sensitive nuclear information about third countries and that could put years of work by secret service sources, and even their lives, at risk. .
Meanwhile, a new investigative book on the Trump presidency by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman claims that after the 2020 election, Trump repeatedly insisted to advisers that he would “never” leave the White House. “How can I leave when I won the election?” he said.
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