Justice Department Disputes Trump’s Claims That Mar-a-Lago Documents Were ‘Personal’ Property
The Justice Department responded to former President
Donald Trump‘s assertion that nine of the documents taken from his Mar-a-Lago estate in August were his “personal” property.
The documents in question included six requests for clemency, two documents regarding immigration policy and one letter addressed to Trump from an individual at a military academy.
The government referred to the Presidential Records Act in their response, which requires anyone who holds office to hand over all notes, memos, records and anything the President touched to the National Archives at the end of their administration. They maintained that regardless, the records should have been sent to the National Archives when Trump left the White House in 2020.
Location of 15 boxes of White House records at Mar-a-Lago at the beginning of the year first sparked the National Archives to call attention to the possible mishandling of documents by Trump.
Trump also contended that four of the documents obtained in the FBI’s execution of a search warrant over his Palm Beach, Florida, estate should fall under executive privilege, but the Justice Department responded by saying the claim that documents were both “personal” and under executive privilege is contradictory in itself. To continue the argument, the former President must choose just one.
The special master in the case, Judge
Raymond Dearie, also said that confusing arguments and lack of substance hurt Trump’s claims. Trump requested a special master, or a third-party judge, to look over the documents to make sure the Justice Department could not use anything that against him that fell under executive privilege.
https://upolitics.com/news/justice-...-mar-a-lago-documents-were-personal-property/
well now that deposition donnie knows he wont be getting the classified and top secret documents back, he's resorted to fighting for tablescraps. this case in the form of 9 insignificant documents.
he really wants them back. and the DOJ could very well give them back and it will have no effect at all in their criminal investigation, but just for shit and giggles the DOJ is basically telling him up yours buddy. we found all this shit mixed in with the rest of the government property we recovered from your golf course. if you want your shit back, then youre going to have to show up in court and make a legal claim for it and prove that it belongs to you and is not related to any crimes, or at least make a case with your special master and have him go over it if he wants to, before your precious special master gets thrown out by the 11th circuit after we win our appeal.
but lol let bunker boy squirm over those 9 documents he wants to fight for, out of those thousands of other documents which the FBI recovered from his golf course, including the government documents marked as classified and top secret, which they are absolutely going to body him over.
the DOJ could easilly just throw deposition donnie a bone and just give him those 9 documents just to shut him up, but they still want to pour salt in the wound and make him have to legally contest a bunch of documents that the DOJ doesn't really even give a shit about, just so at the end of the day they can embarass diaper don in court some more.
as insignificant as this is in the grand scheme of things, it appears as if the DOJ doesn't even want him to give cheeto benito anything that could be considered even the slightest win for him. what a bunch of jerks! its like the best basketball team that USA could muster up being up 120-0 in the 2'nd quarter against a bunch of handicapped midgets in wheelchairs from the phillipines, and still putting in 100% effort going hard as fuck to score as much as possible and prevent their opponents from even getting the ball onto the other side of the court. heartless weaponized witch hunting bastards the DOJ is i tell ya!
