A criminal investigation into the presence of top-secret information at former President Trump’s Florida home has «spiraled out of control,» his lawyers said Monday.
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A criminal investigation into the presence of top-secret information at former President Trump’s Florida home has «spiraled out of control,» his lawyers said Monday in urging a judge to leave in place a directive that temporarily halted core aspects of the Justice Department’s probe. The Trump team also referred to the documents that were seized as «purported» classified records, suggesting his lawyers don’t concede with the Justice Department’s contention that highly sensitive, top-secret documents were found by the FBI in its Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago. The lawyers also asserted that there’s no evidence any of the records were ever disclosed to anyone, and that at least some of the documents belong to Trump and not to the Justice Department, per the AP.
