Donald Trump’s legal team asked to ‘produce documents’ in special counsel probe:
The D.C. Circuit has affirmed that former President Donald Trump’s legal team must hand over “documents” to special counsel Jack Smith regarding his possession of highly classified documents, which led to last year’s FBI search at Mar-a-Lago.
The ruling was filed pursuant to an appeal of a sealed case, but the public portion indicates that it will fuel the special counsel’s ongoing investigation.
Additionally, a federal appeals court has set the stage for an all-hours legal battle over a ruling applying the crime-fraud exception to communications between Trump and his attorney Evan Corcoran.
The judges ordered Trump’s legal team to comply with the district court’s order to produce documents, with prosecutors submitting a 6,455-word filing by deadline.
The speedy deadlines suggest that the courts were wary of delay tactics, according to former federal prosecutor Mitchell Epner. Trump also remains under criminal investigation in New York and Georgia.
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