Donald Trump wants to avoid the big unpacking. The former US president on Monday, August 22, asked a court to appoint an independent expert to examine the documents seized by the FBI during a search of his home in Florida, in order to determine if some of them can remain confidential, and therefore would not be used in investigations.
This search was carried out by the federal police on August 8 at Donald Trump’s property in Mar-a-Lago, a first for a former head of state. However, according to him, this procedure “was illegal and unconstitutional, and we are doing everything we can to recover the documents”, the Republican billionaire said in a statement. The list of objects seized by the FBI, made public, mentions many documents classified as “top secret”.
Donald Trump denounces “unfair” treatment
Investigators suspect the former president of having violated an American law on espionage which very strictly regulates the possession of confidential documents. Donald Trump assured that these documents had been declassified. “The government has treated President Donald Trump unfairly for a long time”write his lawyers in the court document, claiming that he is “the favorite of the Republican primary for the presidential election of 2024” as well as the presidential election itself “if he decides to stand as a candidate”.
Donald Trump is also the target of investigations into his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and his role in the assault by his supporters on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He is not yet prosecuted. in no business.
