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Trump’s attorney, Evan Corcoran, said the transfer of classified documents Trump kept at Mar-a-Lago was a “voluntary and open process.”
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In a letter to the Justice Department, Corcoran asked that the Justice Department’s investigation of “Republican leaders” be “politicized.”
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He said Mar-a-Lago’s box of confidential documents was “unwittingly included in the boxes brought to Mar-a-Lago by the movers.”
Former President Donald Trump’s attorney, Evan Corcoran, wrote in a letter to the Justice Department that the transfer of classified documents held by the former president at Mar-a-Lago was a “voluntary and open process.” claimed.
a letter was enclosed 38-page affidavit released Friday DOJ, who provided the reason for the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago in early August.
In a letter Corcoran wrote on behalf of Trump, Corcoran asked that the DOJ’s investigation of “Republican leaders” not “get political.”
He then said that the Mar-a-Lago box of confidential documents was “unwittingly included in the box that was brought to Mar-a-Lago by the movers.”
“It is important to emphasize that when a request for documents was made by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), President Trump immediately and voluntarily agreed to their transfer to NARA,” Corcoran wrote. .
He continued: It was a spontaneous and open process. ”
He said the “good faith” Trump has exercised is no match for the Justice Department or the FBI due to numerous leaks from the investigation over the past few months.
Corcoran then claimed that the president had “absolute authority” to declassify the documents.
He added that criminal investigations into classified documents do not apply to former or current presidents because the laws discussing criminal conduct involving classified documents do not explicitly refer to the president.
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