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Trump administration drops New York Times subpoenas

Deutsche Welle · back to the audit

President Donald Trump's Justice Department will withdraw subpoenas issued to reporters from The New York Times, prosecutors said at a hearing on Thursday.

The journalists had reported on security concerns about the president flying on a Qatari-donated Air Force One. The Trump administration was seeking to force them to disclose their sources.

The Justice Department had issued the subpoenas after the report said the luxury plane, which Qatar's royal family donated to Trump last year, lacked certain security countermeasures, including anti-missile defenses.

Lawyers representing the newspaper had challenged the Trump administration's requests for journalists' phone records and grand jury testimony, calling it an attempt at press intimidation.

Federal prosecutors had agreed at a hearing before District Judge Arun Subramanian to 'unilaterally withdraw the subpoenas at this time,' the Times said.