Trump Drops Privilege Claims Over Nine Mar-a-Lago Documents

Trump Drops Privilege Claims Over Nine Mar-a-Lago Documents
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a "Save America" rally to support Republican candidates running for state and federal offices in the state at the Covelli Centre in Youngstown, Ohio, on Sept. 17, 2022. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images
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Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has withdrawn privilege claims over certain documents seized at his Mar-a-Lago home, a Monday filing shows.
The 3-page joint filing (pdf) dated Oct. 24 said the former president dropped his initial claims of attorney-client privilege over a total of nine documents that include dozens of pages. According to the court document from both sides, Trump and government attorneys agreed that the documents could be passed on to investigators “in the interest of efficiently resolving such issues and avoiding unnecessary litigation.”
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