Trump’s Classified Documents Case: Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss Charges
A federal judge has denied a motion to dismiss some of the charges against former President Donald Trump in the classified documents case. The defendants had challenged counts related to obstruction and false statements, but the judge ruled that the alleged deficiencies did not warrant dismissal at this stage.
Trump’s legal team had sought to throw out more than a half-dozen of the 41 counts in the indictment, which accuses the former commander-in-chief of illegally hoarding classified documents from his presidency and conspiring with others to conceal sensitive files from the federal government.
The defense had argued that the Presidential Records Act authorized Trump to keep the documents with him after he left the White House and to designate them as his personal files. However, the judge rejected this argument, holding that the government had a legitimate interest in retrieving the documents for safekeeping.
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