Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
Trump Defied Subpoena, Lied About Having Classified Documents, Justice Department Says
thewrap.commassive court filing Tuesday night, the Department of Justice said its search of Donald Trump’s Florida residence earlier this month came in response to evidence that the former president had taken steps to conceal his illegal possession of classified documents.
In doing so, the filing said, Trump defied a grand jury subpoena and “likely” attempted to obstruct the investigation.In the filing, Justice Department counterintelligence head Jay Bratt wrote that there was “evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the Storage Room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation.”Despite sworn denials from Trump’s lawyers, the filing said, several of the boxes recovered in the August search of Mar-a-Lago contained “highly classified records” and investigators “identified items marked as classified national security information, up to the level of Top Secret.”The filing also includes a photograph taken at the scene that clearly shows a large number of documents marked top secret that were in Trump’s possession.
The paperwork was filed ahead of a hearing scheduled for Thursday to address a request by Trump’s legal team to appoint a Special Master — a third-party lawyer — to examine the documents seized by investigators in the August 9 raid.
Trump’s lawyers have alleged that seized documents were actually protected by executive privilege and that federal investigators have no right to them.
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