Trump fights DOJ request to review Classified Docs
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42% (505) are left-leaning, 31% (382) are centrist, and 27% (322) are right-leaning
Ex-President Donald Trump's legal team filed a response to the Department of Justice's request for review of classified materials taken from Mar-a-Lago claiming the documents were "secured" in a locked room at the private club. While left-leaning articles focus on the reluctance of Trump's attorneys to support his assertion that he has declassified the documents, right-leaning articles focus on how Trump's lawyers say the investigation is 'unprecedented and misguided' and that the government has not yet established that the records "remain classified."
The Hill published a centrist article about how the brief also seeks to undercut the Justice Department's argument that its criminal investigation is "inextricably intertwined" with a separate intelligence community review.
A left-leaning article from the Washington Post highlights how reluctant Donald Trump's attorneys are to support Trump's assertion that he has declassified the documents that were confiscated at Mar-a-Lago last month. Rather than actually asserting that Trump declassified the documents—as Trump has said, in his various public statements—they attempt to place the burden on the Justice Department to prove that Trump didn’t.
A right-leaning article from Fox News highlights how Trump's lawyers say the investigation is 'unprecedented and misguided' and emphasize that the government has not yet established that the records "remain classified". Further, the legal team asserts that the Presidential Records Act (PRA) affords every president "exceptional authority to categorize all of his or her records as either Presidential or personal records, and established case law provides for very limited judicial review over presidential records."