STORY OF THE WEEK: The Justice Department suggested this week that former President Donald Trump tried to hide information from the FBI before agents searched Mar-a-Lago earlier this month. Will he be charged with a crime?
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on his Truth Social platform Wednesday, Trump said the FBI"threw documents haphazardly all over the floor , and then started taking pictures of them for the public to see. Thought they wanted them kept Secret? Lucky I Declassified!" Trump's legal team thento the DOJ Wednesday night, reiterating its call for a special master to review the seized documents because"unchecked investigators" from the DOJ purportedly can't be trusted.
The DOJ's filing says that over the past several months, officials met with Trump lawyers at Mar-a-Lago as part of a criminal probe regarding the documents, and that multiple grand-jury subpoenas were filed for classified records and surveillance video at the property. Trump's camp turned several dozen boxes of records and never mentioned anything about declassification, according to the filing.
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