Trump lawyers demand NARA records to expose 'highly-politicized' documents probe of former president

Former President Trump’s legal team is demanding the National Archives and Records Administration turn over documents that they say will expose the "highly politicized" agency for attempting to criminalize a civil dispute over classified materials in an "unconstitutional and unprecedented weaponization of the Presidential Records Act."

Attorneys representing the former president in the special counsel investigation into his alleged mishandling and improper retention of classified records – James Trusty, Lindsey Halligan and Evan Corcoran – filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on Monday.

Trusty told Fox News Digital that attorneys are "demanding documents that will expose NARA’s completely different treatment of President Trump from every other president."

"What we expect to find are highly-politicized bureaucrats who worked in tandem with DOJ and politicians to criminalize a dispute that never has had criminal implications," Trusty said. "We're confident that a substantive response to our demands from NARA will firmly establish a different and politicized treatment of President Trump."