Records seized by the FBI from Donald Trump’s Florida home can be reviewed by a neutral third party at a rate of about 500 documents each business day, the Justice Department said in a court filing, as the former president’s lawyers again avoided dealing with claims he declassified them.
A third-party vendor should be hired to scan and upload the roughly 11,000 documents to a secure and customizable database in the presence of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, the DOJ said in a proposal filed Monday in federal court in Brooklyn. The vendor can then release the documents on a rolling basis to Trump’s lawyers for their review, the government said. That would mean the process would take about a month.
The review requires Trump to categorize the seized materials as presidential records or personal records, assert any privileges that the former president believes apply, and record those positions document-by-document in logs.
