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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked a federal judge Monday to prevent the FBI from continuing to review documents recovered from his Florida estate earlier this month until a neutral special master can be appointed to inspect the records.
The request was included in a federal lawsuit, the first filing by Trump’s legal team in the two weeks since the search, that takes broad aim at the FBI investigation into the discovery of classified records at Mar-a-Lago and that foreshadows arguments his lawyers are likely to make as the probe proceeds. The filing casts the August 8th search in which the FBI said it recovered 11 sets of classified documents from Mar-a-Lago, as a “shockingly aggressive move” and asserts that the action took place even through Trump had been “fully cooperative” for weeks as federal agents scrutinized the presence of presidential records at Mar-a-Lago.
It also attacks the warrant as overly broad and asserts that the Justice Department should not be afforded “trust us” deference in conducting the investigation.
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