WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it found evidence suggesting documents removed from the White House at the end of Donald Trump’s term were later concealed at the Florida home of the ex-president to obstruct a federal investigation into these documents.
A lawyer for Donald Trump ‘explicitly prohibited’ FBI agents from opening boxes in a storage room at Trump’s residence during a June search, the Justice Department said in a document. legal.
“The government has also established evidence that government records were concealed and removed from the storage room and that these steps were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation,” the document added. South Florida District Court.
A hearing is scheduled for Thursday to consider the motion of Donald Trump, who asked that a special expert be appointed to oversee the review of documents – many of them classified – seized from his Florida home in Mar-a-Lago by the FBI during a search earlier this month. (Reporting Sarah N. Lynch in Washington and Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles; French version Jean Terzian)
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