The request was included in a federal lawsuit, the first filing by Trump's legal team in the two weeks since the search.
"This matter has captured the attention of the American public. Merely ‘adequate’ safeguards are not acceptable when the matter at hand involves not only the constitutional rights of President Trump, but also the presumption of executive privilege," the attorneys wrote.
The lawsuit argues that the records, by virtue of having been created during Trump's White House tenure, are "presumptively privileged." But the Supreme Court has never determined whether a former president can assert executive privilege over documents, writing in January that the issue is unprecedented and raises "serious and substantial concerns."
After the meeting at Mar-a-Lago in June involving FBI and Justice Department officials, investigators interviewed another witness who told them that there were likely additional classified documents still stored at Mar-a-Lago, according to person familiar with the investigation who was not authorized to speak publicly about it.U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart on Thursday ordered some of the documents connected to the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to be unsealed.
A written order from U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart largely restates what he said in court last week,to propose redactions about the information in the affidavit that it wants to remain secret. That submission is due Thursday at noon.
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