In a new filing, the Justice Department says Trump's team likely tried to obstruct a probe into the former president's removal of classified documents from the White House.
in which the Department of Justice said it compiled evidence that"efforts were likely taken to obstruct" its investigation, a finding that puts members of Trump's team and potentially the former president himself in even more legal jeopardy.
"Against that backdrop, and relying on the probable cause that the investigation had developed at that time, on August 5, 2022," the filing reads,"the government applied to Magistrate Judge Reinhart for a search and seizure warrant, which cited three statutes: 18 U.S.C. § 793 , 18 U.S.C. § 2071 , and 18 U.S.C. § 1519 ."
DOJ's filing notes that"counsel for the former president represented that all the records that had come from the White House were stored in one location—a storage room at the premises."
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