Former President Donald Trump said sensitive information in classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence “should have never been cause for alarm,” according to a court filing on Aug. 31.
“The purported justification for the initiation of this criminal probe was the alleged discovery of sensitive information contained within the 15 boxes of Presidential records,” the filing (pdf) says, which was written by Trump’s lawyer Lindsey Halligan.
It adds, “But this ‘discovery’ was to be fully anticipated given the very nature of Presidential records. Simply put, the notion that Presidential records would contain sensitive information should have never been cause for alarm.”
The filing was made mainly in response to the Department of Justice’s recent arguments (pdf) against the appointment of a special master to review materials that were seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence by FBI agents on Aug. 8. Trump filed a motion for a special master on Aug. 22….