<p>A federal judge in Washington declined to hold former US President Donald Trump or his legal team in contempt of court as the Justice Department had requested, sources familiar with the matter told&nbsp;<em>ABC News</em>.</p> <p>The decision was handed down on Friday, according to the report. The judge instead urged the Justice Department and Trump's legal team to resolve the dispute themselves, the sources said.</p> <p>The DOJ had&nbsp;<a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/364151" _mce_href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/364151" target="_blank">urged the judge</a>&nbsp;to hold Trump's team in contempt over failure to fully comply with a May subpoena for documents with classified markings that was directed to Trump's custodian of records — a person the Trump legal team has not identified.</p> <p>The proceedings were under seal and not public.</p> <p>"The President and his counsel will continue to be transparent and cooperative, even in the face of the highly weaponized and corrupt witch-hunt from the Department of 'Justice,'" Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement.</p> <p>"If the Department of 'Justice' can go after President Trump, they will surely come after any American who they disagree with," Cheung added. "President Trump is the only one who stands in the way of the un-American weaponization of law enforcement."</p>