A look at what’s happened this week in the investigations embroiling the former president and his allies.
The legal tussle over the FBI’s investigation into whether former President Donald Trump violated federal law by keeping White House documents at Mar-A-Lago continued this week, as the ex-president went to court in a new effort to stop the DOJ from reviewing some documents and the federal government was ordered in court to be more transparent about its probe.
In addition to the ongoing court battles, multiple reports this week uncovered more information about the ex-president’s reported refusal to give documents back to the federal government, including classified information. The New York Times and report Trump himself personally viewed the White House materials—which, the Times reports, likely contain more than 300 classified documents in total—before sending 15 boxes off to the National Archives earlier this year, which the Post reports the ex-president did “with great secrecy.” CNN reports Trump is being counseled by conservative activist Tom Fitten, who leads the organization Judicial Watch, that he shouldn’t have given the documents to the National Archives in the first place and they “belonged to Trump.” The ex-president has “[become] increasingly convinced that he should have full control over records,” CNN reports, despite the Presidential Records Act requiring those documents to be turned over to the Archives.
