Lawyers for Donald Trump made no reference to the claim the former president had declassified the White House documents recovered at his Mar-a-Lago home in their latest court filings.
Trump's counsel submitted a 19-page written legal argument to a Southern Florida court with a district judge set to decide whether a special master can be brought in to review the materials seized by the FBI from the former president's home on August 8.
In their court filing, Trump's lawyers acknowledge that sensitive materials from Mar-a-Lago may have been previously returned to the National Archives in January, but downplayed their discovery.
"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," Trump's attorneys wrote.
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