A court in the US capital of Washington on Friday did not grant a request from the department to take action against Trump’s lawyers for contempt of court, the New York Times reports citing unnamed sources. It remained unclear whether the court ultimately rejected the request or whether it could rule on the matter at a later date.
The background, according to American media, is the growing indignation of the prosecution about the behavior of the Trump team. The question is whether all classified information has really been returned to the government. The Justice Department has repeatedly asked Trump’s lawyers for written warranties. They would have refused to take out such insurance. The judge has now left it to the Justice Department and Trump’s team to resolve the dispute.
The dispute over the handling of government documents has been going on for months: On August 8, the FBI’s federal police searched Trump’s private property, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, and seized documents marked “Secret and among other things “Top Secret” of his tenure. The fact that the 76-year-old kept the documents at home could have made him a criminal offence. It was only reported on Wednesday that further classified documents had turned up in a storage unit used by Trump. A team hired by the Republican made the find.
(SDA)