Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has withdrawn privilege claims over certain documents seized at his Mar-a-Lago home, a Monday filing shows.
The 3-page joint filing (pdf) dated Oct. 24 said the former president dropped his initial claims of executive and attorney-client privilege—a policy to contain presidential communications from disclosure—over a total of nine documents that include dozens of pages. According to the court document from both sides, Trump and government attorneys agreed that the documents could be passed on to investigators “in the interest of efficiently resolving such issues and avoiding unnecessary litigation.”
“The parties agree that these materials can be provided immediately to the government’s Case Team so that issues concerning executive privilege and the Presidential Records Act can be resolved,” the papers read….