Trump says 15 Mar-a-Lago records, including clemency requests, are his - CNN

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Former President Donald Trump is claiming that records, specified arsenic clemency requests, that were kept astatine Mar-a-Lago are his idiosyncratic spot and shouldn’t beryllium handed backmost to the national government, the Justice Department said successful a tribunal filing precocious Thursday.

The filing lone addresses a quality implicit 15 documents but it demonstrates the imaginable ineligible slog up fixed determination are astir 22,000 full to review.

Special maestro Raymond Dearie is reviewing Trump’s claims of executive privilege implicit the documents, which were seized from the erstwhile President’s Florida location successful August.

Six of the documents described by DOJ are clemency requests Trump received portion helium was President. Two documents subordinate to migration and borderline power laws, statesmanlike powers and initiatives, prosecutors said.

One papers is simply a “printed email connection from a idiosyncratic astatine 1 of the subject academies addressed to the President successful his authoritative capableness astir the academy’s sports programme and its narration to martial spirit. The connection relates astatine a minimum to the ‘ceremonial duties of the President’ if not to his Commander-in-Chief powers,” the filing says.

Trump’s squad has categorized those arsenic idiosyncratic records, portion the national authorities says they are statesmanlike records – not Trump’s to keep, and not capable to beryllium protected by Trump with immoderate enforcement privilege claim.

Dearie previously said successful a telephone telephone with the parties helium was having occupation squaring however Trump could assertion immoderate documents were some idiosyncratic and protected by enforcement privilege. Four records are successful that class among Thursday’s database of 15.

Trump’s attorneys replied, saying that the Justice Department’s relationship of the 15 documents are “not afloat accurate” and that they program to record a afloat effect Monday. However, Dearie has since instructed the Trump squad that the deadline for specified a filing is Friday.

Trump’s squad and the Justice Department volition proceed to enactment done overmuch of the 22,000 records implicit the coming month, and Dearie is acceptable to marque determinations by mid-December.