Post by trueblue on Aug 15, 2022 18:06:45 GMT
'Trump claims Truth Social post is official legal request for FBI to “return” seized Mar-a-Lago docs'
Legal experts say Trump's new defense for hiding classified docs may be an admission of a crime
Former President Donald Trump on Sunday demanded the FBI return documents he claims are protected by attorney-client and executive privilege that were seized from his Mar-a-Lago residence.
The FBI last week seized 11 sets of classified documents, including some that were marked as "top secret," from Trump's home. Fox News reported on Saturday that the documents seized in the raid may have included "records covered by attorney-client privilege and potentially executive privilege." Trump seized on the report on his Twitter knockoff Truth Social, "respectfully" requesting the return of the documents and claiming that his post qualified as a formal legal request.
"Oh great! It has just been learned that the FBI, in its now famous raid of Mar-a-Lago, took boxes of privileged 'attorney-client' material, and also 'executive' privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken," Trump wrote. "By copy of this TRUTH, I respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were taken."
The FBI last week seized 11 sets of classified documents, including some that were marked as "top secret," from Trump's home. Fox News reported on Saturday that the documents seized in the raid may have included "records covered by attorney-client privilege and potentially executive privilege." Trump seized on the report on his Twitter knockoff Truth Social, "respectfully" requesting the return of the documents and claiming that his post qualified as a formal legal request.
"Oh great! It has just been learned that the FBI, in its now famous raid of Mar-a-Lago, took boxes of privileged 'attorney-client' material, and also 'executive' privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken," Trump wrote. "By copy of this TRUTH, I respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were taken."