Judge rejects Trump attempt to toss classified documents case with caveats

Trump's Presidential Records Act argument could be resurrected at trial even as the judge denied his motion to dismiss

The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump's prosecution on charges of retaining classified documents denied his effort to have the case dismissed on the contention that the Presidential Records Act allowed him to transform them as personal property and possess them at his Mar-a-Lago club.

The ruling by US district judge Aileen Cannon was significant as it struck one of Trump's main defenses and suggested the case is headed to trial.