The DOJ’s indictment consists of pictures of categorized files discovered at previous President Donald Trump’s Mar- A-Lago home.
Source: DOJ
Federal district attorneys on Monday stated previous President Donald Trump is looking for “special treatment that no other defendant would receive” in the criminal case implicating him of keeping categorized files at his Florida club after leaving the White House.
Prosecutors informed Judge Aileen Cannon that Trump is not entitled– as he has actually asked for– to examine or go over any categorized info in the event in a recently built delicate compartmented info center in among his houses.
“Creating a secure location in Trump’s residence — which is also a social club — so he can discuss classified information would be an unnecessary and unjustified accommodation that deviates from the normal course of cases involving classified discovery,” district attorneys composed in a filing in U.S. District Court in Southern Florida.
“In essence, he is asking to be the only defendant ever in a case involving classified information (at least to the Government’s knowledge) who would be able to discuss classified information in a private residence,” the filing stated.
Prosecutors desire Cannon to purchase that Trump and his legal representatives just be enabled to go over categorized info within unique protected areas, likewise called SCIFs.
The filing stated that the proposed protective order that district attorneys are looking for “reflects standard procedures for handling classified information in criminal cases and is consistent with the law.”
Trump, “on the other hand, seeks special treatment that no other criminal defendant would receive and that is unsupported by law or precedent” by asking that a SCIF be developed at one of his houses, district attorneys composed.
Trump has actually pleaded innocent in the event, where he likewise is implicated of attempting to conceal from federal government authorities packages of records he was keeping at his Mar- a-Lago club in Palm Beach.
Prosecutors in their filing stated Trump’s Mar- a-Lago Club “is even less suited than most residences to host a secure location, because it is a social club.”
