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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Hugo Lowell

Trump seeks access to secret court filings in Mar-a-Lago documents case

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Photograph: Rebecca Blackwell/AP

Lawyers for Donald Trump, defending him against charges that he retained national security documents at his Mar-a-Lago club, have asked a federal judge to grant them unprecedented access to the classified information that prosecutors want to redact before it gets introduced at trial.

“Cleared counsel for President Trump seek attorneys’-eyes-only access to these filings so that we can challenge the [special counsel’s] assertions in adversarial proceedings,” the Trump legal team said in the 18-page filing.

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