The senior federal judge who is tasked with reviewing the more than 11,000 government-owned documents retrieved from former president Donald Trump’s home appeared sceptical of the ex-president’s lawyers’ claim that they need not tell him whether Mr Trump declassified any of the 100 records which still bore classification markings when they were found by investigators.
After Trump lawyer James Trusty told Senior District Judge Raymond Dearie that he and his colleagues were “not in a position” to tell him whether Mr Trump ordered any of the records at issue declassified before his term as president ended, Judge Dearie replied: “You did bring a lawsuit.”
