A court has rejected former Pres. Trump's effort to block Trump attorney Evan Corcoran from having to testify in the special counsel's classified documents probe.
MORE: Sources: Special counsel claims Trump deliberately misled his attorneys about classified documents, judge wrote
Sources familiar with the matter further described to ABC New the six topics that Corcoran was ordered by Judge Howell to testify about, over which he had previously sought to assert attorney-client privilege. According to sources familiar with the filing, Smith wants information from Corcoran on whether Trump or anyone else in his employ was aware of thethat was drafted by Corcoran and signed by Trump attorney Christina Bobb then submitted in response to the May 11 subpoena from the DOJ seeking all remaining documents with classified markings in Trump's possession.
Corcoran was ordered to detail the steps he took to determine where documents responsive to DOJ's May subpoena may have been located, sources said. He also was ordered to provide testimony on why he believed all documents with classification markings were held in Mar-a-Lago's storage room, as he had allegedly confirmed to a top DOJ official when investigators visited the estate in June of last year.
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