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“denied”.
The Supreme Court of the United States on Thursday rejected an appeal by Donald Trump, who had asked him to intervene in the file of the documents seized this summer at his Florida residence.
As is customary, the high court, which was profoundly overhauled by the former Republican president, did not justify its decision.
Although she has six out of nine conservative magistrates, including three appointed by Donald Trump, she has already inflicted setbacks on him, including refusing to support him in his post-election crusade or blocking the transmission of his tax returns or from his White House records to the House Investigative Committee on the Capitol Storm.
On October 4, the billionaire had sent him an urgent appeal so that none of the 11,000 documents seized at his residence in Mar-a-Lago escaped the independent expert responsible for reviewing them.
He challenged a decision of a court of appeal which prevents this expert from having access to a hundred classified documents, left available to the Ministry of Justice for its investigation.
Probable candidacy in 2024
When he left power in January 2021, Donald Trump took entire boxes of documents.
However, a law of 1978 obliges any American president to transmit all of his e-mails, letters and other working documents to the National Archives.
On August 8, federal police agents carried out an unprecedented search of his home on the basis of a warrant for “withholding classified documents” and “obstructing a federal investigation”, and seized around thirty boxes.
Since then, Donald Trump, who flirts with the idea of running for a new term in 2024, says he is "persecuted" politically and ensures that the documents seized are personal or declassified.
He is also being sued in civil proceedings by the New York courts, which accuses him of having manipulated the value of his group's assets to obtain more advantageous loans or reduce his taxes.
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