A US court has asked the US government to comment on former President Donald Trump’s application for a special master’s degree by Tuesday. The Special Master is a special officer in charge of the investigation of documents confiscated from the residences of former US Presidents should monitor. He may be appointed in highly sensitive cases to ensure investigators do not see confidential or procedural information.
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In addition, US District Judge Aileen M. Cannon ordered the Justice Department to make a classified disclosure of other items confiscated in the FBI raid in early August. Donald Trump had previously called for the return of confiscated items that did not fall within the scope of the investigation.
US District Judge Cannon was nominated by then-President Trump in 2020. Your approach has not yet provided any information about a possible decision on Trump’s application.
According to a media report, the secret documents that Trump took with him after the end of his term in office are to be evaluated by the US secret services. The magazine “Politico” reported on Saturday (local time), citing a letter from secret service coordinator Avril Haines to high-ranking employees. This is intended to clarify whether there were any national security risks arising from the storage in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida.
“The Justice Department and the Office of the US Intelligence Coordinator are working together to… a classification check of the relevant materials including those seized during the search,” Haines wrote, according to the magazine.
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According to the report, the secret services could also check whether unauthorized persons had access to the documents. This could be of criminal relevance. Haines belongs as intelligence coordinator the administration of Trump’s successor Joe Biden an.
On Friday, the US Department of Justice partially made public the basis on which the ex-president’s living quarters were searched on August 8th. This revealed that Trump had previously returned numerous confidential, classified, and top-secret documents to the National Archives. Since Trump kept the documents in his private estate until then, he could have broken the law. This is now being investigated. The Republican served as President from 2017 to 2021. (Reuters, dpa)
