Donald Trump planning to withhold two folders seized by FBI during raid on Mar-a-Lago

Former US President Donald Trump is attempting to withhold at least two folders marked as containing correspondence with National Archives from US Justice Department that contain  signed sheets seized by FBI from his Mar-a-Lago resort.  “ former US president’s privilege assertions over folders, which appear to have direct relevance to criminal investigation into wher he retained national defence information and obstructed justice, are significant as y represent an effort to exclude items from inquiry and keep m confidential," Justice Department noted, according to a Guardian report. 

Documents 'illegally carried from  White House'

US Department of Justice also relayed to  lawyers for Trump that ex-US president may not have turned in all  documents that he may have illegally carried from  White House. In this regard,  DoJ he of counterintelligence operations, Jay Bratt, communicated with Trump's attorneys “in recent weeks:,  paper revealed. recent finding may be “ most concrete indication yet that investigators remain sceptical that Mr Trump has been fully cooperative in ir efforts to recover documents … supposed to have [been] turned over to National Archives at end of his term," Times noted. Trump, it stressed, h obviously failed to get a lawyer to claim that he h turned in all  documents as he stepped down from his presidential duties. 

DOJ now plans to take concrete measures including “giv[ing] up on trying to obtain documents, issuing a subpoena for m, obtaining anor search warrant or pushing for Mr Trump to attest under oath that he has handed over all materials in his possession," according to paper. US National Archives h earlier told House Oversight Committee that re were missing presidential records from time Trump ministration that has remained outstanding. New York Democrat Carolyn Maloney, National Archives and Records ministration, or NARA, said that documents missing may have information related to  White House staff using non-official electronic systems to conduct official business. But Committee has been unable to obtain records from a number of former Trump ministration officials. 

“While re is no easy way to establish absolute accountability, we do know that we do not have custody of everything we should,” NARA said in a statement issued earlier.