Trump lawyers demand NARA records to expose highly-politicized documents probe of Trump
EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump’s legal team is demanding the National Archives and Records Administration turn over documents that they say will expose the "highly politicized" agency for attempting to criminalize a civil dispute over classified materials in an "unconstitutional and unprecedented weaponization of the Presidential Records Act."
Attorneys representing the former president in the special counsel investigation into his alleged mishandling and improper retention of classified records – James Trusty, Lindsey Halligan, and Evan Corcoran – filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on Monday.
Trusty told Fox News Digital that attorneys are "demanding documents that will expose NARA’s completely different treatment of President Trump from every other president."
"What we expect to find are highly-politicized bureaucrats who worked in tandem with DOJ and politicians to criminalize a dispute that never has had criminal implications," Trusty said. "We're confident that a substantive response to our demands from NARA will firmly establish a different and politicized treatment of President Trump."
Trump’s legal team is calling for NARA to turn over records related to its dispute resolution process and communications about how the agency characterizes presidential records; its process for establishing secure locations for past presidents to maintain possession of those records; and other information.
"This request covers records located at any office within NARA, including its Office of General Counsel, each of its field and regional offices, the Clinton Presidential Library and Museum, the George W. Bush Presidential Center, and the Obama Presidential Library," the request stated.
Trump’s legal team hopes to reveal that "the underpinnings" of the Justice Department’s investigation into Trump’s handling of classified records are "rotten" and "used criminal tools when they shouldn’t have."
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