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Trump asks court to oversee search of his Florida home


  • The request of the former US president includes a more careful receipt of what was seized and the return of what was not included in the court order

former US president donald trump requested this Monday to a court of Florida supervision over the “illegal and unconstitutional” registration made on August 8 at his home in Mar-a-Lago, which includes the designation of a “special teacher” in charge, a more careful receipt of what was seized and the return of what was not included in the court order.

In announcing the measure, Trump today described the search carried out by FBI agents at his home in Palm Beach, in southeast Florida, as an “unnecessary, unjustified and un-American intrusion”. He also assured that “all” the documents that he took from the White House to his residence had been previously declassified.

The disclosed search warrant showed that Trump took classified material from the White House to your residence. Said order also pointed out the crimes in which he may be committing: violation of the Espionage Law, obstruction of Justice and destruction of documents.

Former President Trump (2017-2021) complained that the agents “demanded that they turn off the security camerasa request that they legitimately” denied, and that prevented their lawyers from observing what they were taking. The Republican denounced that they took documents that are protected by the attorney-client privilege, passports and that they also opened a safe of his. He explained that the The motion presented seeks that the Department of Justice “immediately stop the review of the documents illegally seized from my house” and that a “special teacher” supervise the handling of the seized material.

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More than 300 documents

Trump amassed more than 300 classified documents at his residence, multiple sources with knowledge of the matter told The New York Times. As published on Monday by the newspaper, the US government has been gradually recovering those 300 documents in the last year and a half, that is, since Trump left the White House in January 2021.

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In total, the 300 documents were returned to the Government in three deliveries. First, in January of this year, the US National Archives, in charge of guarding historical material, managed to recover 150 classified documents from the former president’s residence. The second batch of documents was delivered to the Department of Justice by Trump advisers in June and, thirdly, the FBI seized more classified files in the notorious search that it carried out this month in the former president’s mansion in Florida. Until now, exact volume unknown of material that US security forces had been finding in Trump’s home.

The contents of the documents Trump took from the White House have not yet been released. The Department of Justice has only made public some fragments of the search warrant with which the FBI inspected the former president’s mansion.


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