{"id":1920194,"date":"2023-04-27T13:13:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-lawyers-say-mar-a-lago-classified-documents-contained-info-on-calls-with-foreign-leaders\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T13:16:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:16:48","slug":"trump-lawyers-say-mar-a-lago-classified-documents-contained-info-on-calls-with-foreign-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-lawyers-say-mar-a-lago-classified-documents-contained-info-on-calls-with-foreign-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump lawyers say Mar-a-Lago classified documents contained info on calls with foreign leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-lawyers-say-mar-a-lago-classified-documents-contained-info-on-calls-with-foreign-leaders%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1920194&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<h2>Trump&#8217;s Lawyers Defend Classified Documents<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">L<\/span>awyers of former President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> have come forward to defend the classified documents taken from Mar-a-Lago. They claim that the discovery of these documents says more about the White House&#8217;s institutional processes than any &#8220;criminal intent&#8221; by Trump. <\/p>\n<h3>Attorneys Criticize Justice Department and National Archives<\/h3>\n<p>The lawyers addressed a letter to Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) and sent it to committee members and other congressional leaders on Wednesday. The letter criticized the Justice Department and the National Archives and Records Administration for their inconsistency in handling the classified documents compared to those discovered in President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a> and former Vice President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-pence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Pence<\/a>&#8216;s possession. <\/p>\n<h3>White House Staff Responsible for Misplaced Documents<\/h3>\n<p>The lawyers claimed that Trump had less time than his predecessors to gather and properly store documents. They also suggested that it is likely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouris-republican-governor-says-gop-lawmakers-tried-to-embarrass-him-in-disgusting-scheme\/\" title=\"Missouri\u2019s Republican Governor Says GOP Lawmakers Tried To \u2018Embarrass\u2019 Him In \u2018Disgusting Scheme\u2019\">staff members<\/a> were responsible for their placement among the things taken to Mar-a-Lago. &#8220;The vast majority of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-lawyers-say-mar-a-lago-classified-documents-contained-info-on-calls-with-foreign-leaders\/\" title=\"Trump lawyers say Mar-a-Lago classified documents contained info on calls with foreign leaders\">placeholder inserts refer<\/a> to briefings for phone calls with foreign leaders that were located near the schedule for those calls,&#8221; the lawyers wrote. &#8220;This organization of materials indicates that the White House staff simply swept all documents from the President\u2019s desk and other areas into boxes, where they have resided ever since.&#8221; <\/p>\n<h3>DOJ is the &#8220;Wrong Agency&#8221; to Investigate<\/h3>\n<p>The lawyers said the DOJ is the &#8220;wrong agency&#8221; to investigate the handling of these documents and that the department &#8220;should be ordered to stand down,&#8221; claiming the Office of the Director of National Intelligence or the House Intelligence Committee should have spearheaded the investigation instead. <\/p>\n<h3>Congress Should Work to Enhance National Security<\/h3>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s lawyers&#8217; statements echo the chairman himself. Turner said in an interview with Fox News&#8217;s Maria Bartiromo on Monday that the committee is looking into the misuse of classified documents. &#8220;We\u2019re looking at how do we change the laws, how do we change the rules, and how do we address this so it doesn\u2019t affect future administrations and it certainly shouldn\u2019t affect these two,&#8221; he continued. <\/p>\n<p>Instead of criminal investigations, Congress should work to shore up the transitional process and transfer procedure of documents. &#8220;Please know that despite the differences in the cases, we do not believe that any of these three matters should be handled by DOJ as a criminal case,&#8221; Trump\u2019s lawyers wrote. &#8220;Rather, the stakeholders to these matters should set aside political differences and work together to remediate this issue and help to enhance our national security in the process.&#8221; <\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s lawyers have defended the classified documents taken from Mar-a-Lago, claiming that the mishandling of these documents says more about the White House&#8217;s institutional processes than any &#8220;criminal intent&#8221; by Trump. They have criticized the Justice Department and the National Archives and Records Administration for their inconsistency in handling the classified documents and suggested that Congress should work to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-gives-national-security-grants-to-think-tank-backed-by-ccp-front-group\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Gives National Security Grants to Think Tank Backed by CCP Front Group\">enhance national security<\/a> by shoring up the transitional process and transfer procedure of documents. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers of former President Donald Trump informed the House Intelligence Committee that some of the classified documents taken from Mar-a-Lago contained memos of calls with foreign leaders, stating the discovery of these documents says more about the White House&#8217;s institutional processes than any &#8220;criminal intent&#8221; by Trump. The letter, addressed to Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1920195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3755,7372,14907,5407,5542,4232,4875,5061,7075,3634],"class_list":["post-1920194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-calls","tag-classified","tag-contained","tag-documents","tag-foreign","tag-info","tag-lawyers","tag-leaders","tag-mar-a-lago","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}