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, […]
The head of CREW—which fought for the document’s release—said that “it twists the facts and the law to benefit Trump and does not comport with a serious reading of the law.” Following a watchdog group’s win in court last week, the Biden administration on Wednesday released an unredacted memorandum from 2019 about whether then-President Donald Trump obstructed Special Counsel […]
Former U.S. President Donald Trump left Washington with more than 700 pages of classified documents, including some containing the government’s top secrets, when his presidency ended last year, the National Archives disclosed Tuesday. The disclosure came in a letter dated May 10 from the acting U.S. archivist, Debra Steidel Wall, to one of Trump’s lawyers, […]
While the DOJ has not announced whether it will appeal, a spokesperson for the watchdog behind the case said that “the American people deserve to know what it says. Now they will.” A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the release of a 2019 memorandum about whether then-President Donald Trump obstructed Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian […]