WASHINGTON — The FBI’s seizure of classified documents during its recent search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence has renewed a debate over whether a former president can assert executive privilege, or the right to shield documents from disclosure. Under the Presidential Records Act, presidential records belong to the government and must be handed over […]
The U.S. Justice Department said Monday that it found “a limited set of materials” that might contain information about President Donald Trump’s private contacts with his attorneys that should be excluded from the government’s investigation of highly classified documents it seized three weeks ago from Trump’s oceanside estate in Florida. Prosecutors, in a court filing […]
The FBI searched the former president’s Florida property due to concerns that his retention of highly classified documents could compromise “clandestine human sources.” The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday released a redacted version of a 38-page affidavit that supported the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida earlier this month. The affidavit was heavily redacted, […]
“Former President Trump’s conduct has potentially put our national security at grave risk,” Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Adam Schiff wrote to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines. Democratic Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Adam Schiff on Saturday asked federal intelligence officials to immediately review the top secret documents that FBI agents retrieved during last week’s search of […]