The former president, seen in casual clothes at Dulles airport, wants taxpayers to pay at least half of the cost of the legal process for the documents seized from the Mar-a-Lago mansion
Donald Trump’s surprise landing in Washington on Sunday, where he was traveling from his hometown in New Jersey, with no apparent reason for his visit, sparked a flurry of speculation linking it to his legal troubles. The former president, who was seen at the Dulles airport dressed in casual clothes and golf shoes with his Secret Service, calmed the rumors by later clarifying that he was at his National Golf Club in Potomac Falls, Virginia.
Meanwhile, the former president’s legal team has asked taxpayers to pay at least half of the legal bill for the application process of a special magistrate, who plans to disqualify the government from using the documents that have been seized. in Mar’s mansion as evidence against him -a-lake.
The Justice Department, whose investigation has been temporarily halted due to an order from a pro-Trump judge appointed under his administration to appoint a special magistrate to oversee the documents, has indicated that the former president to pay all legal costs of any lawsuit he requested. In the latest installment of the legal battle, the government on Monday doubled its stake in a motion demanding access to the documents be restored or it will go to a higher court.
The Department of Justice invoked the Presidential Records Act (PRA), which establishes that documents stolen from the government belong to the state, and that their separation is inviolable and not subject to questioning by a court or someone else. The legal counter-argument from Trump’s lawyers in this difficult case is that these are presidential documents that fall under administrative law. A fictitious argument that also ignores the Espionage Act, on the basis of which the classified material was confiscated.
The Senate Intelligence Committee, in turn, has requested documentation of the seized top-secret material containing sensitive nuclear information about third countries that could endanger years of work by Secret Service sources, and even their lives.
Meanwhile, a new investigative book on the Trump presidency by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman claims that after the 2020 election, Trump repeatedly insisted to advisers that he would “never” leave the White House. “How can I leave if I won the election?” he said.
Source: La Verdad
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