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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe and agencies

Mar-a-Lago documents: Trump delaying tactics causing ‘irreparable harm’ – DoJ

Pages from a Department of Justice court filing last month in response to a request from Donald Trump’s legal team for a special master to review seized documents.
Pages from a Department of Justice court filing last month in response to a request from Donald Trump’s legal team for a special master to review seized documents. Photograph: Jon Elswick/AP

Donald Trump’s lawyers are causing “irreparable harm” to the government and public by delaying the investigation into his hoarding of highly classified documents at his Florida mansion, the US Department of Justice said.

The claim came in a strongly worded court filing urging a district judge, Aileen Cannon, to reconsider her ruling last week granting Trump’s request for an independent “special master” in the case.

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