US Department of Justice to release at least some of the evidence it used to justify a search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home last week should be considered, Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton said Wednesday.
Bolton said in an interview with Reuters that the Department of Justice (DOJ ) agreed with the concerns of Resort for sensitive materials.
But he said the department's usual policy of remaining silent about pending investigations may not work in this politically tense environment.
" I think it probably shouldn't be public and the DOJ is right, in fact I think Trump knows he doesn't want it public, so it's easy for him to ask for it. "Because we know it won't happen," Bolton told Reuters in an interview.
Given the political firestorm, I think we have to be more creative here.”
FBI agents seized 11 sets of classified documents from Trump's home on August 8. recovered. It's an unusual move, according to search warrants and property receipts that U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland asked the court to disclose last week.
Bolton asked the Department of Justice in federal court in West Palm Beach, Fla., to hold a discussion by the press wanting to release additional sealed records related to the warrant to a U.S. magistrate. Judge Bruce Reinhart said the day before he heard. Affidavit.
The Department of Justice said it contains highly sensitive material that could discourage witness cooperation and provides a "roadmap" for ongoing investigations, Edit It is expected to actively oppose even the publication of the edition.
Bolton said Trump had a knack for collecting large amounts of paper and he remembered seeing it "piled up" in the White House dining room. From his 2018 he served as President Trump's National Security Advisor until 2019.
President Trump also said he had received several letters from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, one of which reached the White House without proper review. Bolton was later able to seize, sift through, and secure the letter, but not some others he received. I don't know, it didn't work," Bolton recalls. "He kept them in files in his secretary's office...and I know he showed them to people."
FBI raids in Mar-a-Lago Since then, Trump has repeatedly accused the FBI of alleging, without evidence, that a partisan witch hunt against him was the motive. , dismissed this claim.
"There is no evidence of partisan motives here," he said. “I think everyone, whether they are Trump supporters or anti-Trumps, needs to stay calm and move through the process.”
