{"id":8105,"date":"2022-08-15T11:59:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T11:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/?p=8105"},"modified":"2022-08-15T12:38:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T12:38:59","slug":"trump-demands-fbi-give-back-documents-he-rightfully-took","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/2022\/08\/15\/trump-demands-fbi-give-back-documents-he-rightfully-took\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Demands FBI Give Back Documents He Rightfully Took"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u200bFormer President Donald Trump on Sunday called for the Justice Department to return the reams of documents FBI agents seized at his Mar-a-Lago resort last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Oh great! It has just been learned that the FBI, in its now famous raid of Mar-a-Lago, took boxes of privileged \u2018attorney-client\u2019 material, and also \u2018executive\u2019 privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken<\/em>,\u201d&nbsp;Trump said on his Truth Social site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>By copy of this TRUTH, I respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were taken. Thank you!,\u201d <\/em>the former president said in the posting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fox News reported, citing sources close to the investigation, that team Trump&nbsp;was told that at least five boxes \u2013 labeled A-14, A-26, A-43, A-13, A-33, and a set of documents \u2013 taken under authority of the search warrant contained information covered by attorney-client or executive privilege\u200b.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The documents were among a cache of materials taken from Trump\u2019s palatial Palm Beach home last Monday, including binders of photos, a handwritten note, a leatherbound box of documents, an \u201cexecutive grant of clemency\u201d for longtime aide Roger Stone, according to a property list of items released on Friday by the FBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agents also found 11 boxes of information&nbsp;classified documents marked at varying levels of security, including top secret, confidential and \u201cTS\/SCI,\u201d which refers to top secret\/sensitive compartmented information,&nbsp;a special category intended to protect the country\u2019s most delicate secrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump has disputed that the documents were classified, claiming that he had declassified them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A representative for the 45th president, John Solomon,&nbsp;read a statement on Fox News&nbsp;Friday evening claiming that Trump had a \u201cstanding order\u201d during his time in the White House that \u201cdocuments removed from the Oval Office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them.\u201d\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But a&nbsp;member of Trump\u2019s legal team\u200b signed&nbsp;a written statement in June during a visit by Justice Department officials contending that all classified material at Mar-a-Lago had been returned to the government, the New York Times reported on Saturday.&nbsp;\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NYtimes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bFormer President Donald Trump on Sunday called for the Justice Department to return the reams of documents FBI agents seized at his Mar-a-Lago resort last week. \u201cOh great! It has just been learned that the FBI, in its now famous raid of Mar-a-Lago, took boxes of privileged \u2018attorney-client\u2019 material, and also \u2018executive\u2019 privileged material, which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[677],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofnaija.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}