Former President Trump on Thursday urged the judge overseeing his federal classified documents criminal case in Florida to delay the trial until after the 2024 election as part of a pattern of attempting to delay his criminal trials until after he’s had a chance to win the White House. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team filed multiple motions Thursday night urging a Florida judge to dismiss the criminal case charging him with illegally retaining classified documents, claiming in part that presidential immunity protects him from prosecution — an argument they have already submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in his election … Read more
Breaking down Biden’s response to special counsel’s classified documents report – CBS News Watch CBS News The White House is hitting back at a special counsel report detailing President Biden’s “willful retention” of classified documents, taking particular issue with the report’s characterization of the president’s memory and age. CBS News senior White House correspondent Weijia … Read more
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee says it has evidence that a White House employee inspected President Biden’s papers stored at the Penn Biden Center in March 2021, far earlier than previously known. The panel wants to interview several current and former senior White House officials in connection with its widening investigation into Mr. Biden’s handling … Read more
Washington — Special counsel Jack Smith and his team of prosecutors accused lawyers for former President Donald Trump of making “distorted and exaggerated” claims about their access to classified information as part of their bid to delay the scheduled May 2024 trial in the federal case involving the former president’s handling of sensitive government records … Read more