Trump pushes back on DOJ accusation
Former US President Donald Trump has blasted the FBI for throwing supposedly secret documents on the floor and photographing them during its raid of his Florida home earlier this month, arguing that he had declassified the papers that prosecutors wrongly accused him of concealing.
“Terrible the way the FBI, during the raid of Mar-a-Lago, threw documents haphazardly all over the floor – perhaps pretending it was me that did it – and then started taking pictures of them for the public to see,” Trump said on Tuesday in a Truth Social post. “Thought they wanted them kept secret? Lucky I declassified!”
Trump’s rant on social media came after the US Department of Justice (DOJ) claimed on Tuesday night that the ex-president’s team “likely concealed and removed” government records in violation of a grand jury subpoena. The accusation was included in a court filing in which the DOJ argued against Trump’s request to appoint a special master to examine the documents in question, saying such a review would “harm important governmental interests.”
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Trump has governmental immunity under the Presidential Records Act which is why the FBI should be sh*tting bricks:
I am a retired civil litigator.
THIS IS THE MOST CRITICALLY APPLICABLE STATUTE IN THIS CASE
44 U.S. Code § 2205 (3) — the Presidential records of a former President shall be available to such former President or the former President’s designated representative.
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The statute does not say the President’s records shall be made available, or available on request. It says “shall be available.” That means that Congress has given the former President the right to take them when he leaves office. He does not need permission from anyone else to take these records with him.
