President Donald Trump's attorneys have outlined a possible plan to avoid handing over evidence related to the transition to federal investigators, CNN reports.
Multiple U.S. Attorneys' Office are investigating Trump's transition and his inauguration, with prosecutors from Manhattan having subpoenaed his inaugural committee for information on donors and vendors. His attorney's argue the time during Trump's transition, as a quasi-governmental operation, should fall under the same protections as the executive branch.
In a public court filing, Trump's legal team claim "plaintiffs' plans to seek discovery from executive officials and people under indictment also raise issues regarding executive privilege and the Fifth Amendment."
They also laid the foundation to debate "whether presidential transition materials are protected from disclosure by the Constitution . . . whether presidential transition materials are protected from disclosure by the Presidential Transition Act . . . [and] whether presidential transition materials are protected from disclosure by an evidentiary privilege."