A former White House aide in the Trump administration has been ordered by a judge to hand over between 200 and 250 emails from an encrypted account, as they were identified as relating to presidential business.
It comes after FBI agents raided Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida in August 2022 to obtain documents from his time in the White House under the Presidential Records Act (PRA). More than 13,000 documents were seized, 103 of which were classified.
The ruling by Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia, on Thursday marks a stunning legal defeat for Peter Navarro, a former assistant to the president, who oversaw trade policy and, in the last few weeks of the Trump presidency, published a report alleging widespread election fraud.
Navarro refused to produce any of the emails until he had been granted immunity for the act of returning the records, court documents show, after which the lawsuit was filed by the United States government.
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