“President Donald J. Trump will continue to fight against the weaponized Department of ‘Justice’ while standing up for America and Americans,” the spokesperson said.
The news came as top Justice Department officials gathered in Washington for the annual holiday party. He learned that he had won the case from the reporters who were also in attendance.
A spokeswoman for the Justice Department declined to comment.
Three days after Trump announced the run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, US Attorney General Merrick Garland on November 18 appointed a special counsel, Jack Smith, to oversee the criminal investigation into the documents and another Trump was related to
Cannon, who was appointed by Trump to his Judiciary, named another federal judge, Raymond Deary, to review the record to consider whether someone should be recused from a criminal investigation. .
Cannon blocked prosecutors from using the documents discovered as part of their criminal investigation until the conclusion of the Derry review, although a separate 11th Circuit panel later granted the government access to material marked classified. Of.
Trump’s lawyers had asked Deary to ascertain whether certain documents are protected by executive privilege, a legal doctrine that allows presidents to keep certain communications secret, or meet the definition of “personal” papers that are classified as private. should be kept. Trump’s lawyers argued that he designated some of the records as his personal papers, a claim that the Justice Department disputes.
