Trump's pick for special master said he's not buying Trump’s assertion that he declassified the documents before leaving office, citing his lawyers’ refusal to specify whether or not the claims were true.
— has voiced skepticism over Trump’s assertion that he declassified the documents before leaving office, citing his lawyers’ refusal to specify whether or not the claims were true.in their request for a special master or in any other legal filings. They have insinuated, however, that it’s ahe did so, and have argued that the court shouldn’t automatically assume that the Department of Justice’s claims that the documents are still classified are true.
“Let’s not belittle the fact that we are dealing with at least potentially legitimately classified information,” Dearie, who was one of Trump’s suggestions to be special master, . “The government has a very strong obligation, as do all of us, to see to it that that information doesn’t get in the wrong hands.”“sufficient to establish a fact or raise a presumption unless disproved or rebutted” — Dearie said that the former president’s lawyers didn’t make a cogent legal argument that the material that was retrieved last month might not be classified., noting that he would only make an exception if Trump’s legal team could provide evidence of declassification.
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