damning to donald trump, because a picture like that is about as welcome as hair on a biscuit. ages doesn t belong, you don t want to see it, and it s something every voter can see and identify. pictures can be worth 1000 words, this one is damning to donald trump. and the doj filing also says the august search cast serious doubt on the statement made by trump lawyers, that classified material had already been returned. but does that reveal about donald trump and his team, his legal team? you, know it s the carelessness that they applied to this. they did not take it seriously. if they did, they would have behaved very differently. it s true that donald trump had lawyers that were not qualified to do what they are asked to do. but that is the fault of donald trump. he hired these people. and he has a history of hiring lawyers who tell them what he wants them to tell, i m not with the law is, nobody needs to hear. and so, this fits a pattern of donald trump. the pattern is i hire yo
the department reports it has now recovered more than 320 classified documents from mar-a- lago. prosecutors essay some documents were likely concealed or removed from storage in an effort to obstruct their investigation. the court filing casts serious doubt on a statement by trump s attorneys that all classified material had been returned. the justice department also argues that trump lacked legal standing to request a special master, since the documents belonged to the government, not to him. the court filing came with this photo, showing documents taken by the fbi, from a container in trump s office. more now from cnn s sarah murray. reporter: the justice department weighs in with its side of the story of what happened in the run-up and aftermath of the search at mar- a-lago. this is all a part of the court battle playing out over whether there should be a special master, an independent third- party appointed to review the documents that the fbi sees
opposing trump s request for a special master to review all the materials seized by the fbi. the department reports it has now recovered more than 320 classified documents from mar-a-lago. prosecutors say, some documents or likely concealed or removed from storage in an effort to obstruct their investigation. the court filing cast serious doubts on a statement by trump s attorney that all classified material had been returned. the justice department also argues that trump lacks legal standing to request a special master s, since the documents belong to the government, not to him. the court filing came with this photo showing documents taken by the fbi from trump s office. more now from cnn s sara mine. the justice department weighing in with the good side of the story of what s happened in the run up and in the aftermath of the search at mar-a-lago.
hour. in a blockbuster court filing, the u.s. justice department izzy posing a request by donald trump to appoint a special master to review documents taken from mar-a-lago. doj lawyers say government documents were likely concealed and removed from a storage room at mar-a-lago to obstruct the investigation into trump s potential mishandling of classified materials. the doj says the fbi s search cast serious doubt on his lawyers claims that there had been a diligent search to return classified material in response to a granaries peña. and they argue trump lacks standing over presidential records because the material belongs to the government, and not to him. well the court filing came with this photo showing documents taken by the fbi s taken from trump s office.
is this more about delaying tactics, buying time as the doj appears to be saying? because, on the other side of this, trump s team and his allies keep saying, oh, this is political. this is rightly the november midterms. but this could ve been resolved many months ago. couldn t it? if the trump team had wanted to. absolutely. this case is the creation of donald trump and company. they, one, did not have to take these documents with them. and to, when requested of, them they could ve given them all back and said we were very sorry we took them in inadvertently. and this could ve been all done. but they didn t. they held on to these documents, they appear to have hidden the documents. and the big question now is why. what was it that was behind all of this secrecy and concealment and obstruction? what is it that is in these documents that you need to cover up in some sense? or potentially, most seriously,