Former US President Donald Trump is using all means to try to stop the FBI’s investigation into the official documents he took with him when he left the White House. This time, Trump decided to sue the US government, asking that an impartial expert be chosen to analyze the documents and justify in detail the need for the records, which he says are based on “political motivations.”
According to the US press, the focus of the process that Trump’s team presented this Monday is to ensure that a “special guardian”, chosen by the court, can review the fifteen boxes of documents that were stolen from his resort in March -a-Lago , Florida, in the raids carried out about two weeks ago, and check which ones may be outside the scope of the investigation or that are protected by some type of professional secret.
In addition, CNBC specifies, Trump’s team asks that the United States Department of Justice be prevented from continuing to consult the documentation that the FBI took from Mar-a-Lago as an impartial party – a figure that exists in situations in which there is doubt as to whether or not certain documents can be used in the context of criminal investigations—it is not chosen.
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Trump also wants a detailed inventory to be carried out of all the documentation that was removed from his rooms and that all material not directly related to the ongoing investigations be returned, accusing the FBI of having carried out the searches abusively. and of not having taken into account their voluntary cooperation.
The requests are part of a process in which Trump is once again lashing out at this unprecedented investigation. According to the document he submitted to a South Florida court, the former president believes the US government violated his constitutional rights by ordering unwarranted searches of his private quarters at Mar-a-Lago.
And, arguing that the raids were “illegal and unconstitutional”, in a statement quoted by the US press, Trump even speaks of an “astoundingly aggressive” order with “political motivations”.
“We are doing all the necessary steps to recover the documents, which we would have provided without the need for a despicable search of my house, to be able to deliver them to the National Archives until they are requisitioned for the future President of the Donald J. Library and Museum. .Trump”, reads the text.
US Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley said, reacting to Trump’s action, that the searches were “authorized by a federal court” because there is “reasonable suspicion,” ensuring the administration will respond. to the case of the former president.
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The order that allowed the search of Mar-a-Lago on August 8 indicated that US authorities are investigating possible violations of laws related to espionage and obstruction of justice.
However, Trump guarantees that everything is nothing more than a ruse to stop his possible recidivism for the White House and even writes, in the process itself, that he is the “clearly preferred” for the Republican primaries and the 2024 general elections if not it does. he decides to re-enter the presidential race.
Source: Observadora
