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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Feinberg

Justice Department slams Trump’s ‘meritless’ claim that records seized from Mar-a-Lago are ‘personal’

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Prosecutors with the Justice Department’s national security division aggressively pushed back on former president Donald Trump’s claim that non-classified White House records seized during the 8 August search of his Palm Beach, Florida home had been designated “personal” records by virtue of their removal from the White House.

The new salvo was made in a filing before the New York judge charged with determining whether any of the documents are protected by legal privileges.

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