DOJ disclosed 'damning evidence' about Trump's procurement of classified documents, Judiciary Democrat says

The Justice Department released documents to Congress that included "damning evidence" about President Donald Trump's procurement of highly sensitive documents, including some related to his business interests, when he left office after his first term, Rep.

The Justice Department released documents to Congress that included "damning evidence" about President Donald Trump's procurement of highly sensitive documents, including some related to his business interests, when he left office after his first term, Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday.

In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Raskin alleged some of the documents, which had been sought by then-special counsel Jack Smith in his now-defunct classified documents case against Trump, were accessible only to six people in the government, and that the documents seemed to be relevant to the then-former president's business interests.

"These new disclosures suggest that Donald Trump stole documents so sensitive that only six people in the entire U.S. government had access to them, that the documents President Trump stole pertained to his business interests, and that Susie Wiles, then the CEO of Donald Trump’s super PAC, witnessed President Trump showing off a classified map to passengers on his private plane," wrote Raskin, D-Md.

The Justice Department's release of documents from Smith's investigation to the Republican-run House committee for its probe into the past investigations into Trump might have violated U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon's order barring public disclosure of materials from the special counsel probe, Raskin said.

Cannon issued the order after she dismissed the case on the grounds that the DOJ’s appointment of Smith was "unlawful."