The DOJ’s indictment includes photos of classified documents found at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago residence.
Source: DOJ
Federal prosecutors on Monday said former President Donald Trump is looking for “special treatment that no other defendant would receive” within the criminal case accusing him of retaining classified documents at his Florida club after leaving the White House.
Prosecutors told a judge that Trump isn’t entitled to review or discuss any classified information within the case in a newly constructed sensitive compartmented information facility in one among his homes, as he has requested.
“Making a secure location in Trump’s residence — which can be a social club — so he can discuss classified information could be an unnecessary and unjustified accommodation that deviates from the traditional course of cases involving classified discovery,” prosecutors wrote in a filing in U.S. District Court in Southern Florida.
“In essence, he’s asking to be the one defendant ever in a case involving classified information (not less than to the Government’s knowledge) who would have the option to debate classified information in a personal residence,” the filing said.
The filing said that the proposed protective order that prosecutors are looking for “reflects standard procedures for handling classified information in criminal cases and is consistent with the law.”
Trump, “one the opposite hand, seeks special treatment that no other criminal defendant would receive and that’s unsupported by law or precedent,” prosecutors wrote.
Trump has pleaded not guilty within the case, where he is also accused of attempting to hide from government officials the boxes of records he was keeping at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach.
Prosecutors of their filing said, “And after all, The Mar-a-Lago Club is even less suited than most residences to host a secure location, since it is a social club.”
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