The U.S. Justice Department has asked a federal judge to hold former President Donald Trump in contempt for failing to comply with an order to turn over classified documents in his possession, CNN reports.
According to the sources of the newspaper ‘The Washington Post’, the Justice Department would have asked that it was Trump’s legal team to be declared in contempt.
This move comes after a team hired by the former president’s lawyers reported on Wednesday that they had found two new documents in a storage unit in West Palm Beach, Florida, after searching four locations.
Trump’s team turned over those two documents to the FBI and announced to the magistrate handling the chaos in Washington DC that they believed the former president was complying with the request to turn over the full set of files.
The main stumbling block in relations between the Justice Department and Trump’s legal team has been the latter’s repeated refusal to confirm that all classified records had been returned to the government.
Since the beginning of this year, the former president’s team has turned over boxes and envelopes containing federal records. In the summer, investigators entered his Mar-a-Lago mansion, where they seized several dozen more boxes, containing more than 100 documents marked classified.
