Trump lawyers again push for special master to review documents in FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago

3 yıl önce
Documents seized by FBI from Mar-a-Lago
Source: Department of Justice

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Wednesday once again called for a federal judge to appoint a "special master" to review documents seized from Trump's Florida home by the FBI.

The narrowly-focused filing in U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach came one day after the Department of Justice argued that appointing a special master could harm the government's national security interests.

The DOJ's filing also said that "efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government's investigation" into the records that had been shipped to Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence after the end of his presidency.

And the DOJ revealed that the FBI seized more than 100 classified documents from the Palm Beach resort during its search of the premises earlier this month. The agency also shared a redacted FBI photo showing documents with classification markings that had been recovered from a container in Trump's "45 Office."

The former president's legal team in its Wednesday night reply accused the DOJ of twisting "the framework of responding to a motion for a Special Master into an all-encompassing challenge to any judicial consideration, presently or in the future, of any aspect of its unprecedented behavior in this investigation."

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