These transfers were not revealed to Congress by Trump Cabinet officials until months after they took place. resident and Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, allegedly at the hands of a Saudi-linked kill squad, in Turkey. In 2019, Senate Democrats said the administration had approved the transfer of nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia on at least two occasions following the killing of U.S. The speculation that Trump may have withheld documents relating to nuclear secrets appeared to raise questions about his administration's links to the transfer of U.S. Rossi said that a judge could still publish these documents 'even if Trump doesn't agree.'

The search warrant itself would have little information on it, with a list of the statute or statutes and the date when the warrant was approved. 'And the other thing is, although embarrassment doesn't seem to be something that he is always concerned about, it's embarrassing to let the world know exactly what they took out of your house,' Rossi said.ĭonald Trump leaves Manhattan's Trump Tower to meet with New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawyers for a deposition on Wednesday. That can be all prejudicial in the minds of potential jurors. 'Potential jurors will read in the paper that they executed a search warrant on his home, they see certain individual items. He continued, 'Legally, if it's unsealed and exposed to the world, in the event that he is charged, and we don't know yet, but if he is ever charged, it could affect the jury pool when he goes to trial. 'So politically, that's probably why he hasn't done it now,' Rossi said. It could be a lot of things other than just a records violation. 'The first page in a warrant could list more than one statute that they think was violated, and that could include, possibly, insurrection, rebellion, obstruction of a congressional proceeding. 'It could hurt Trump politically because the public would then know what was taken from his house and there could be incriminating items,' he said. However, Rossi said, there could be implications if he released the warrant, the list of seizures or both. Donald Trump has the absolute right to tell the whole world what the documents say. He said: 'He's been given a copy, it's not sealed, there's no court order that says you can't divulge it.

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