Trump’s Last-Minute Court Filing Undermines His Own Argument He Declassified ‘Everything’
Former President Donald Trump appears to be his own worst enemy in the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation into classified and top secret documents found at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump’s legal team issued its latest response to a DOJ filing regarding the former president’s request for an independent special master review of the documents obtained from Mar-a-Lago in an August 8 search and seizure.
The DOJ response was a stunning rebuke of the initial request and even included a damning photo revealing several classified, top secret, and even SSCI-marked documents. Curiously, none were marked as unclassified.
This is noteworthy because Trump’s defense of having these documents — which are the property of the US government — is that he had a “standing order” to declassify any documents he took with him as president. He is no longer president, however, and there is no record that a declassification protocol was followed.
