WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors urged a choose in a closed-door listening to Friday to carry Donald Trump’s authorized staff in contempt of court docket for failing to totally flip over all categorized paperwork within the former president’s possession, an individual acquainted with the matter mentioned.
Justice Department legal professionals made the request of U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in latest days, amid an escalating battle with Trump’s legal professionals over whether or not he has surrendered all of the paperwork he took with him when he left the White House. Investigators issued a subpoena for the information in May, and in August, executed a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Florida believing he had not absolutely complied with the spring demand.