“The senior federal judge tasked with reviewing the materials seized by the FBI from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate sharply questioned the former president’s attorneys Tuesday during their first hearing before his courtroom,” Politico reports.
“Judge Raymond Dearie pushed Trump’s lawyers repeatedly for refusing to back up the former president’s claim that he declassified the highly sensitive national security-related records discovered in his residence.”
The Daily Beast reports that if Trump’s lawyers don’t officially counter whether the documents are classified, then Dearie will side with the DOJ: “As far as I’m concerned, that’s the end of it.”
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