The District of Columbia magistrate, Beryl Howell, pressured both the former president’s defense and the Department of Justice to reach a mutual agreement resolution

The United States Justice rejected this Friday to declare former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) in contempt, as requested by the Joe Biden Administration.

According to the CNN and NBC channels, which cited sources familiar with the case, District of Columbia Magistrate Beryl Howell ruled against the Executive’s request, which requested that Trump be declared in contempt for allegedly not having responded to the request of a grand jury.

In her place, Howell pressured both the Trump Defense and the Department of Justice – on behalf of the US government – to reach a mutually agreed resolution.

The grand jury demanded that Trump in May return classified documents from when he was president that he still has in his possession, something the former president would not have done.

Last week, the US Justice annulled the figure of the special expert appointed by a lower court to review the official documents found in the Trump mansion in Florida.

The United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit thus agreed with the Department of Justice, led by Democrat Merrick Garland, and which in October had requested that the order issued by a lower-ranking judge that led to the appointment of the independent expert.

That appointment had been one of Trump’s greatest judicial achievements in the legal battle he is having with the current US government, in relation to those documents, since the expert was in charge of determining what papers the Executive could access in his investigation. and which ones don’t.

To date, the expert was reviewing the hundred documents marked as classified that were found among the more than 13,000 that the FBI seized on August 8 during the search of Trump’s residence in Mar-a-Lago (Florida).

During the search, the FBI found classified and secret documents that Trump allegedly took with him when he left the White House in January 2021.

On Thursday, the United States Department of Justice asked a federal judge to hold former President Donald Trump in contempt for failing to comply with the order to turn over classified documents he had in his possession, CNN reported.

According to the sources of the newspaper ‘The Washington Post’, the Justice Department would have requested that it be Trump’s legal team that was declared in contempt.

The move comes after a team hired by the former president’s lawyers reported Wednesday that they had found two new documents in a storage unit in West Palm Beach, Florida, after conducting searches in four locations.

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