Former President Donald Trump is reportedly scheduled to appear at a hearing on the classified documents case in a secure room in Florida on Monday.
Kenny Nail, chairman of the St. Lucie County Republican Executive Committee, said he received a message from one of Trump’s lawyers that the former president would appear at the hearing in person. According to WPBF.
The 9:30 a.m. hearing, overseen by District Judge Eileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, will take place in a heavily guarded room known as the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida. be exposed. ABC News reported.
The hearing will focus on laws that prevent confidential information from being disclosed in court.
Lawyers for Trump and his two co-defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos de Oliveira, are expected to argue how the classified information is “relevant or helpful to the defense.” .
Mr. Nauta, a personal valet of President Trump, and Mr. de Oliveira, the property manager of the former president’s mansion in West Palm Beach, Florida, will not attend because they do not have security clearance to hear classified information. .
Special Counsel Jack Smith will then present his case for the confidentiality of classified information.
Judge Cannon previously ruled that the Justice Department must release unredacted documents related to the case at the request of President Trump and the press.
Smith filed a motion Thursday asking the judge to reconsider the order, arguing that submitting unredacted discovery documents to the public docket would reveal the identities of potential witnesses and would “intimidate, intimidate or harass them.” “This would expose us to a grave and immediate risk of…” ”
“In this case, these risks are by no means speculative,” Smith wrote in the filing. “Witnesses, agents and judicial officers in this very case have been harassed and intimidated, and further appearances in court would pose an equally intolerable risk of upending their lives.”
Trump, 77, was indicted in June on charges of storing hundreds of classified documents on his Mar-a-Lago property, including a bathroom, and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them.
Nauta and de Oliveira are accused of helping their boss conceal documents.
President 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 may be delayed.
