NEW: The Justice Department has alleged Trump’s team engaged in “obstructive conduct” to conceal classified documents, urging a judge to reject his request for a “special master.'
An aerial view shows President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estatein Palm Beach, Fla., Aug. 10, 2022.The Justice Department on Tuesday responded to former President Donald Trump's call for a "special master" to review materials the FBI seized at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
The government included multiple exhibits to support its argument, including one photo purporting to show an FBI photograph of documents recovered from a container in Trump's personal office with colored cover sheets showing classification markings including TOP SECRET/SCI, with one showing a marking that appears to refer to information obtained by confidential human sources.
"This included evidence indicating that boxes formerly in the Storage Room were not returned prior to counsel's review," officials added in the filing, referring to a lawyer for Trump who said all the records from the White House "were stored in one location," the storage room, and "that there were no other records stored in any private office space or other location at the Premises and that all available boxes were searched.
"When producing the documents, neither counsel nor the custodian asserted that the former President had declassified the documents or asserted any claim of executive privilege," the filing said. "Instead, counsel handled them in a manner that suggested counsel believed that the documents were classified: the production included a single Redweld envelope, double-wrapped in tape, containing the documents.
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