After three weeks of accusations from former President Donald Trump and his allies that the Justice Department and FBI overreached in their unprecedented August 8 search of Mar-a-Lago, the DOJ responded Tuesday with a late-night filing that laid bare the fruitless negotiations that preceded the raid -- and provided ample evidence that in their own legal filing, Trump's attorneys had left out key details and made multiple unfounded or false claims about the circumstances surrounding the DOJ's efforts to retrieve classified documents.
Tuesday's DOJ filing was not just a line-by-line rebuttal of the claims made by Trump and his lawyers that they were fully cooperative all along with department's efforts to retrieve the records, but it put on full display the extent of the evidence collected so far by investigators in their probe of whether concealment of the documents amounts to obstruction of justice.
Included in the filing were paper exhibits showing the full subpoena sent to Trump's lawyers, the sworn statement by a Trump lawyer earlier this summer stating they'd handed over all relevant documents, and a high-resolution photo of a pile of documents that was subsequently collected from Trump's personal office with Top Secret markings.
The filing came in response to Trump’s request that a judge appoint a special master to intervene in investigators' ongoing review of the items seized from Mar-a-Lago -- but some legal experts tell ABC News that Trump's team may have hurt...
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