Trump-appointed judge affirms Trump lawyer’s request
Trump’s request to appoint a special investigator in an investigation into documents seized from the Florida home of former US President Donald Trump is likely to be granted.
Florida Federal Judge Eileen Cannon said on the 28th (local time) that Trump’s counsel’s request to appoint a special investigator was “temporarily intended.”
Earlier, former President Trump’s lawyers requested that the FBI stop reviewing documents and appoint a special investigator for an impartial review on the documents confiscated from Trump’s home in Florida on the 22nd.
This was the first legal action taken by the FBI on the 8th after the FBI raided Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, and recovered a number of documents, including classified documents.
Judge Cannon, who was appointed in 2020 during Trump’s tenure as president, ordered the Justice Department to provide a detailed list of all items seized under the warrant and to present its position on the former President’s counsel’s request to appoint a special investigator by the 30th.
Judge Cannon will hold a separate hearing on the matter on the 1st of next month and will make an official decision on whether to appoint a special investigator or not.
“If special investigators are appointed as separate experts to review the documents, they will be responsible for examining whether the documents obtained at Trump’s home are classified documents that are central to the investigation or are subject to presidential prerogatives,” ABC said. pointed out
Earlier, the Department of Justice released an edited version of the affidavit that served as the basis for the issuance of a search and seizure warrant for former President Donald Trump by order of Judge Bruce Reinhart of the Miami Federal Court of Justice.
According to the report, out of 15 boxes of government data returned to the National Archives earlier this year after former President Donald Trump took them out without permission, 14 boxes of 184 documents labeled as classified were identified.
/yunhap news