Lawsuit claims former fixer breached attorney-client privilege and unjustly enriched himself, among other allegations
to investigate the classified materials the FBI found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort last August, as well as his involvement in the January 6 insurrection and efforts to overturn the 2020 election. According to the Times, who cited four people with knowledge of the matter, Smith’s investigators have asked witnesses whether he displayed a map after leaving office. The details of the map are unknown, but it is said to contain secret information.
They have also asked whether Trump requested to personally review boxes of sensitive material at his Mar-a-Lago resort after receiving a subpoena last May to hand over all classified documents in his possession. A lawyer for the former president later signed a document asserting Trump had handed over all the material in his possession, which turned out not to be true.The question of whether Mr.
Among the topics investigators have been focused on is precisely when Mr. Trump was at the club last year. In particular, they were interested in whether he remained at Mar-a-Lago to look at boxes of material that were still stored there before Justice Department counterintelligence officials seeking their return came to visit in early June, according to two people familiar with the questions.
Mr. Trump typically leaves Florida for his club in Bedminster, N.J., earlier than he did last year, when he was still at Mar-a-Lago for the visit from the Justice Department officials, on June 3. Investigators have been gathering evidence about whether Mr. Trump had aides bring him boxes to sift through after a grand jury subpoena was issued in May for any government documents Mr. Trump still had in his possession, the people said.
After the June 3 visit, when Justice Department officials were handed a batch of documents with classified markings that had been found at Mar-a-Lago, a lawyer for Mr. Trump signed a certification saying a “diligent search” had been conducted and all government material had been returned. That statement proved untrue two months later when the F.B.I. found hundreds of pages of additional classified documents during a court-authorized search.
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