You Will Anyway: Trump's next move in document heist

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Trump's next move in document heist

Former President Donald Trump made his first foray into the legal fight over the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago estate, seeking the appointment of a “special master” to screen seized materials for potential privileged information.

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In the submission, styled as a “Motion for Judicial Oversight and Additional Relief,” Trump’s lawyers also asked that investigators be blocked from further review of the seized materials until a third-party review process is in place.

The court assigned Trump’s requests to Fort Pierce, Fla.-based U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee confirmed by the Senate about a week after Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election.

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Trump’s attorneys said they were informed by a prosecutor that a Justice Department “filter team” is reviewing the seized records to cull out any privileged materials, but the Trump lawyers contend that safeguard isn’t sufficient.

The 27-page filing is replete with Trump’s typical political bombast, including boasts about the power of the former president’s 2022 campaign endorsements and about the Mar-a-Lago estate itself. But it also confirmed aspects of the timeline related to the Mar-a-Lago search, including the fact that the Justice Department issued two subpoenas prior to the search — one for documents on May 11 and another for security camera footage in late June.

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“We are now demanding that the Department of ‘Justice’ be instructed to immediately STOP the review of documents illegally seized from my home. ALL documents have been previously declassified,” Trump declared.

Politico

And, of course, there is no record of that.

Trump sought to portray his involvement with the Justice Department as cordial until the moment of the search but didn’t explain how boxes of material designated as highly classified remained at Mar-a-Lago after protracted discussions with investigators.

Three of Trump’s attorneys signed the legal filing: Lindsey Halligan, who is based in Florida, as well as Washington-based attorney James Trusty and Baltimore-based Evan Corcoran.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

1) Trump does not have the best lawyers.

2) Everything Trump does is a PR move.

UPDATE:

In all seriousness, I would assume that's exactly how it went down.

UPDATE: Oh, wait....

Perhaps even the terrible lawyers he has refused to put their names to it.

I don't know what's going on. I assume it's just PR shit, and not intended to be a serious legal filing anyway.

UPDATE: /Oh, duh! It was for fundraising purposes. What else?

All grift. All the time.

UPDATE: The judge responds.

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