Judge in Trump documents case grants request for lawyer-client privilege hearing

Former US president Donald Trump (Julio Cortez/AP)

The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case of former US president Donald Trump granted a defence request for a hearing on whether prosecutors improperly breached lawyer-client privilege when they obtained crucial evidence from one of Trump’s ex-lawyers.

But US district judge Aileen Cannon also denied a request for a hearing on a separate Trump team claim that the Justice Department had submitted false or misleading information in an application for a warrant to search the Republican ex-president’s Florida estate for classified records two years ago.