Trump continues to muddy the waters

Fresno CA

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Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday told a federal appeals court that it should not lift the hold a lower court judge put on the Justice Department using Mar-a-Lago documents identified as classified in its criminal probe – and continued to try to cast doubt on whether the 100 or so documents that are at the center of the dispute are in fact classified. Trump again, however, declined to provide evidence that he had declassified the documents before leaving office. Trump told the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals that it should not buy the Justice Department’s argument that the documents should be presumed classified while the government reviews them. Trump said that the Justice Department, in its previous filing with the appeals court, “assumes – without either side presenting any proof – that the documents are, in fact, classified.” (If they weren't classified, he would not have made such a big deal about 'everything that leaves the Oval Office is automatically declassified.)