The FBI raid on Mr Trump’s luxury home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida — the first of its kind at a former president’s home — has sparked a political firestorm in the US, with the tycoon and his supporters complaining “witch hunt”.
The US Justice Department on Monday objected to the release of a court document it said could shed light on why federal police conducted an unprecedented search of the home of Republican former President Donald Trump last week.
The FBI raid on Mr Trump’s luxury home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida — the first of its kind at a former president’s home — has sparked a political firestorm in the US, with the tycoon and his supporters complaining “witch hunt”.
Several organizations, including the media, demanded that a judge release the court document explaining why it was deemed necessary to conduct the investigation.
However, the Ministry of Justice objected yesterday that the publication of the reasons “would irreparably damage the ongoing criminal investigation”, according to a document.
On Friday, at the request of prosecutors this time, a judge released the search warrant and a list of documents found and seized.
But unlike the first batch of documents, the document requested to be released this time contains “highly sensitive information about witnesses”, the techniques used by the police and facts “extremely important to the investigation”, the Ministry of Justice ruled.
Its release could reveal the researchers’ strategy and “jeopardize the success of the investigation,” he added.
According to the documents released on Friday, the judiciary suspects that the Republican violated the US espionage laws, which are extremely strict regarding the possession of confidential documents. The list of seized documents includes several that were classified as “Top Secret”.
Donald Trump, who has hinted more and more recently that he will jump back into the race for the White House in 2024, assured for his part that the documents found and seized were declassified.
On Monday, he complained that his passports were confiscated and declared himself the victim of “an attack against a political opponent the likes of which we have never seen before in our country”. The US is becoming a “Third World!”, shouted the real estate mogul.
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