Trump Legal Team Responds to Obstruction Accusations
Summary from the AllSides News Team
On Wednesday, former President Donald Trump's legal team filed a response to the Justice Department's 36-page court filing that said classified documents were "likely concealed and removed" at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump's lawyers are claiming that the "unchecked investigators" at the Justice Department cannot be trusted to conduct a fair investigation, saying that prosecutors will "impugn, leak and publicize" details of its investigation. The legal team for Trump is asking U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to appoint a special master to review the materials seized by the FBI after the August 8 raid at Mar-a-Lago. The hearing is set for Thursday, and the judge has said that she is inclined to appoint a special master.
At issue is the question of whether the former president has the right of executive and attorney-client privilege regarding some of the seized documents. An FBI team has already looked over the documents, and has determined that a limited number of them are protected by attorney-client privilege. Meanwhile, some legal experts have said that executive privilege only exists over disputes between different branches of government; in this case, only the Executive Branch is involved.
Sources from across the political spectrum prominently covered the Trump legal team's response to the accusation of obstruction by the Justice Department. Right-rated sources generally focused more on the details of the Trump team's claims; left-rated sources focused more on the DOJ's accusations against Trump.
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Former President Trump’s lawyers said Wednesday that the Justice Department’s “unchecked investigators” can’t be trusted to conduct a fair investigation.
The jab at the federal prosecutors was part of Mr. Trump’s response to the DOJ’s argument against the request of an independent “special master” to review boxes of classified documents and other materials the FBI seized from Mr. Trump’s Florida home.
“Left unchecked the DOJ will impugn, leak, and publicize selective aspects of their investigation with no recourse for [Mr. Trump] to somehow trust the self-restraint of currently unchecked investigators,” attorneys for Mr....
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Trump's lawyers said they wanted the special master to decide questions of executive privilege, not just the limited question of attorney-client privilege. Some legal experts have said that executive privilege exists during a dispute between different branches of government, not the same one, as in this case.
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