Former President Donald Trump arrived at a Florida courthouse on Monday to attend a closed-door hearing in a highly secure area for his classified documents case.
The hearing, overseen by Trump-appointed District Judge Aileen Cannon, was held in a highly secure room known as the Sensitive Information Sharing Facility at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, ABC News reported.
The session would focus on a law that protects classified information from being revealed in court.
Trump’s motorcade was seen outside the courthouse around 9 a.m.
Lawyers representing Trump and his two co-defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, will present arguments about how classified information “could be relevant or useful to the defense.”
Nauta, a Trump valet, and De Oliveira, the manager of the former president’s estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, will not attend because they do not have security clearance to listen to classified information.
Special prosecutor Jack Smith will present his arguments for keeping classified information secret.
Donald Trump arrived in court Monday for a hearing in Fort Pierce, Florida, in his classified documents case. AP
Cannon previously ruled that the Justice Department must release unredacted documents from the case at the request of Trump and the media.
Smith filed a motion with the judge Thursday asking him to reconsider his order, arguing that presenting the discovery material in an unredacted public record would reveal the identities of potential witnesses, “exposing them to significant and immediate risks of threats, intimidation and harassment.” . .”
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“These risks are far from speculative in this case,” Smith wrote in his filing. “Witnesses, agents and judicial officials in this same case have been harassed and intimidated, and the disclosure of more witnesses will pose an equally intolerable risk of upending their lives.”
Trump, 77, was charged in June with allegedly storing hundreds of classified documents throughout his Mar-a-Lago property, including a bathroom, and thwarting government efforts to recover them.
The former president is accused of misappropriating classified records found at his Mar-a-Lago estate. AP
Nauta and De Oliveira are accused of helping their boss hide the documents.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges, claiming they are politically motivated.
The case is scheduled to go to trial on May 20, but could be delayed.
-Additional reporting by Ryan King
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