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Trump must review classified documents case evidence in secure location, judge says (www.reuters.com)

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Sept 13 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump and his lawyers may only review classified evidence in a secure place as he prepares for a criminal trial over his handling of secret documents after he left office in 2021, a judge ruled on Wednesday.

Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has been charged along with two aides with illegally storing troves of classified documents at his personal residence and lying to federal investigators who sought to retrieve them.

He had opposed strict security protocols for the classified evidence as inconvenient, saying he and his lawyers should be able to review them in his office at his Mar-a-Lago estate, his personal residence in Palm Beach, Florida.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Well, yes, because they're classified, and that's how you handle classified documents. The fact that the case is about mishandling of the exact same classified documents only makes this whole thing exponentially absurd.