Trump judge sets sealed hearing for special counsel's security request in documents case

A Florida national justice connected Thursday said she would clasp a proceeding sealed from the nationalist to sermon prosecutors' petition for an order to support classified worldly astatine the bosom of a criminal lawsuit against erstwhile President Donald Trump.

The proceeding "will instrumentality spot astatine a designated clip and spot to sermon sensitive, security-related issues concerning classified discovery," Judge Aileen Cannon said successful a written order.

Cannon did not accidental successful the bid wherever and erstwhile that proceeding volition occur.

But she said that Trump and his co-defendants successful the case, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, did not person to be the hearing.

Trump is charged successful U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida with crimes related to retaining classified authorities records aft leaving the White House and trying to screen up the information that helium was keeping those documents successful boxes astatine his Mar-a-Lago nine successful Palm Beach.

Nauta, who is Trump's valet, and the Mar-a-Lago attraction idiosyncratic De Oliveira are accused of participating successful the cover-up effort. All the defendants person pleaded not guilty.

Special Counsel Jack Smith, whose bureau is prosecuting Trump, is asking Cannon to bid that the erstwhile president and his defence lawyers beryllium allowed to sermon classified accusation lone wrong peculiar secured locations, known arsenic SCIFs.

Smith opposes Trump's proposition that a SCIF beryllium built astatine Mar-a-Lago oregon different of his residences for that purpose.

In a tribunal filing this week, Smith blasted that idea, saying Trump is seeking "special attraction that nary different suspect would receive."

"He is asking to beryllium the lone suspect ever successful a lawsuit involving classified accusation (at slightest to the Government's knowledge) who would beryllium capable to sermon classified accusation successful a backstage residence," Smith wrote successful the filing.