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A judge has denied a request by Department of Justice prosecutors to hold Donald Trump’s team in contempt of court for not fully complying with a subpoena to return all of the government documents he is accused of illegally keeping after leaving the White House.
Mr Trump’s lawyers claimed in federal court that he has fulfilled subpoena requests to provide papers in his personal possession, while prosecutors say searches carried out on the former president’s behalf have not been satisfactory.
The judge instead urged the two sides to resolve the dispute themselves, sources told ABC News.
It comes as the January 6 select committee is reportedly considering criminal referrals for at least four of Trump’s associates: former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, lawyer John Eastman, former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark, sources told CNN.
Meanwhile, Trump has hit out at the deal that saw Brittney Griner returned from Russia, complaining that Joe Biden should have sought the release of US Marine Paul Whelan. He did not acknowledge that Whelan was arrested in Russia on his watch, or that he himself failed to act to get him home.
A federal judge in Washington, DC declined to hold Donald Trump or his legal team in contempt of court as the Department of Justice had requested at a court hearing on Friday, ABC News first reported.
The judge instead urged the Justice Department and the Trump legal team to resolve the dispute themselves.
Court proceedings were sealed depsite pressure from news organisations
Georgia’s runoff election was only the latest example of how Republicans have handed Democrats an advantage in balloting due to former President Donald Trump‘s lies about the risks of mail voting. Conservative conspiracy theorists urged GOP voters to wait until Election Day before casting their ballots and spun tales about how such a strategy would prevent Democrats from rigging voting machines to steal the election.
There was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election or this year’s midterms.
One problem with such a strategy is the random glitches that often arise on Election Day.
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After disappointing results in this year’s elections, Republicans are reevaluating their antipathy to mail voting
Two men — including the founder of the Hawaii chapter of the Proud Boys — were each sentenced to four years in prison today for their actions during the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot.
Nicholas Ochs, 36, of Honolulu, and Nicholas DeCarlo, 32, of Fort Worth, Texas, pleaded guilty in September.
Donald Trump dominated the GOP primaries this year, wielding the power of his endorsement to lift his preferred candidates to the party nomination. But many of those contenders, including Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, lost in the general election. The latest was Herschel Walker, whose defeat on Tuesday in Georgia gave Democrats 51 of the Senate’s 100 seats.
Trump is now facing blame from some Republicans for contributing to the party’s midterm shortcomings, and that could open room for McCormick and others without worrying about blowback from the former president.
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The Department of Justice has asked a judge to hold Donald Trump’s team in contempt for failing to comply with a subpoena to return classified documents, according to a report.
Federal investigators launched a probe to see if the one-term president broke the law by taking government documents, some marked top secret, with him when he left the White House in January 2021.
Now the Justice Department has asked US District Court Judge Beryl Howell to sanction Mr Trump’s team, sources told The Washington Post on Thursday.
Graeme Massie has the story.
Move came after former president’s lawyers found two more classified documents in Florida storage facility
Reiterating his earlier claim that the prisoner swap of WNBA player Brittney Griner for arms dealer Viktor Bout was bad for America because it did not include Paul Whelan, Donald Trump is now protesting that his own record on hostage releases was something that had “never been done before in any administration”.
Mr Trump has come under fire for not acting to release Mr Whelan while he was in office. He claims that if he had made a deal for the former marine’s release Democrats would have accused him of collusion with Russia.
Here’s what he posted on Truth Social on Friday evening:
Earlier Mr Whelan’s twin tweeted that the former president had mentioned his brother’s name more in the last 24 hours than in the two years he was in office and could have acted to free him.
Here’s Andrew Feinberg’s reporting for The Independent.
Mr Trump did not mention Mr Whelan’s name a single time during the two years he was held in Russia on his watch, nor did he bring up the former US Marine during a 2019 meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin
Per ABC News:
A federal judge in Washington declined to hold Trump or his legal team in contempt of court following a court hearing Friday as the Justice Department had requested, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
The judge instead urged the Justice Department and Trump’s legal team to resolve the dispute themselves, the sources said.
DOJ had urged the judge to hold Trump’s team in contempt over failure to fully comply with a May subpoena for documents with classified markings that was directed to Trump’s custodian of records — a person the Trump legal team has not identified.
The proceedings were under seal and not public.
The Trump campaign didn’t immediately respond to request for comment.
DOJ declined to comment.
Here’s what we knew earlier:
Lawyers for Donald Trump are in federal court in Washington for sealed arguments as part of the ongoing investigation into the presence of classified information at the former president’s Florida estate
Donald Trump is celebrating being named Man of the Year… 2020… by The Association of Mature American Citizens.
He was initially awarded the prize in February 2021 based on a vote by the group’s membership but was only presented with it now due to the Covid-19 pandemic. According to a press release, the former president won 80 per cent of the vote.
An excited Mr Trump posted pages and cover art from Amac Magazine to his Truth Social account.
The former president was also presented with an oil painting titled “Saving a Generation”.
Republican Governor of New Hampshire Chris Sununu gave his take on why Republicans failed to win back the Senate.
“We had bad candidates with bad messaging that didn’t listen to voters.”
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