EXPLAINED: What's in Trump's NEW Lawsuit

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In the wake of the unprecedented raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, and FBI agents wrongfully taking the President’s passports as well as attorney-client privileged documents, President Trump has just filed a lawsuit against the Biden Administration.
As reported by Fox News, President Trump is asking for an independent special master to handle the documents:
"Former President Trump and his legal team filed a motion Monday evening seeking an independent review of the records seized by the FBI during its 'unprecedented' and 'unnecessary' raid of Mar-a-Lago earlier this month, saying the decision to search his private residence just months before the 2022 midterm elections 'involved political calculations aimed at diminishing the leading voice in the Republican Party, President Trump.'
According to the motion filed Monday evening in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Trump and his legal team are seeking an order to appoint a special master to review the records obtained during the search; blocks the further review of seized materials by the government until a special master is appointed; requires the Justice Department to provide a more detailed receipt for property and requires the government to return any item seized that was not within the scope of the search warrant."
We know that the lawsuit is in regards to the raid and how it was conducted, specifically how the search warrant was obtained, but also about who is actually going through President Trump’s documents. We know they did seize items they had no authority to take, and now it’s unclear who is looking through them. The concern now is that the court will tell President Trump’s legal team they should have asked for a special master two weeks ago. Two weeks is a lot of time for the FBI to have already gone through the documents, making the Trump request moot, even if the court did agree.
Today’s full Sekulow broadcast includes more in-depth analysis of the Trump lawsuit and what could result from this latest development. We are also joined by ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy Ric Grenell, who also served as Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to discuss how classified documents like this are supposed to be handled.

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