Former President Donald Trump on Sunday called on the FBI to return seized documents that are allegedly protected by attorney-client and executive privileges.
The big picture: The FBI searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago home on Monday, recovering 11 sets of classified documents.
- Fox News reported on Saturday that the FBI seized boxes covered by attorney-client privilege and possibly executive privilege, according to unnamed sources familiar with the investigation.
What he's saying: "It has just been learned that the FBI, in its now famous raid of Mar-a-Lago, took boxes of privileged ‘attorney-client’ material, and also ‘executive’ privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken," Trump said on Truth Social.
- "By copy of this TRUTH, I respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were taken," he said.
Background: Trump and his associates have frequently sought to claim executive privilege to prevent the release of documents or information....
- Trump attempted to claim executive privilege over presidential records that the House Jan. 6 committee requested last year but was denied.
- Several former White House officials have also refused to appear before the committee, citing executive privilege.