Trump files motion seeking independent review of docs seized during FBI raid on MAL

[Noking]

Nothing. There is absolutely nothing they can do because trump was caught red-handed. So all the JPP trump fans are all about to apologize to us.

I'm kidding of course - they're going to keep pulling up obscure opinion pieces written by other racist rage-demons and keep throwing it at us a "proof" Biden's up to something criminal.

You just nailed it.

 

[Stringfellow Hawk]

"The cleanup is ME"? The cleanup is ... me.

The cleanup is.. me.

I don't get it, champ. None of us do.

Bad meth?

yes you are a fucking idiot, like dutch uncle, on ignore you go

 

[LurchAddams]

yes you are a fucking idiot, like dutch uncle, on ignore you go

Today must be my birthday.

 

[Jarod]

Trumppers: Bill Clinton lied about having sex with an intern so Donald Trump should be allowed to take home 300 pages of top-secret documents.

 

[Geeko Sportivo]

Trump files motion seeking independent review of docs seized during FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago

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.

Trump said Monday evening the motion is "strongly asserting" his rights, "including under the Fourth Amendment of our Constitution, regarding the unnecessary, unwarranted, and unAmerican Break-In by dozens of FBI agents, and others, of my home, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-files-lawsuit-seeking-independent-review-fbi-raid-mar-a-lago

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Trump wants a Special Master to look at the documents and to decide what the DOJ can and cannot see. He wants the files sealed until the Special Master reviews the files.

And I suppose next Trump will want Giuliani to be this Special MASTER?

Here is what this is really about......

 

[archives]

I’m okay with a special master being appointed, it’s common and a good idea.

If it were that easy

Just another stall and delay tactic, they filed the request to a conservative Judge in Florida Trump approved after he lost the election. He will probably agree and then it will move to appeal, appeal, appeal, and someday down the road be resolved. If it didn’t follow that scenario, there would be another legal delay arguing over the approval of the “special master,” you know Trump will request someone outrageous

Irony is that it is probably already too late, should have been done days after the search, before a decision on the request can be resolved, the Justice Dept will have already reviewed the documents and will know what they contained

 

[Jarod]

If it were that easy

Just another stall and delay tactic, they filed the request to a conservative Judge in Florida Trump approved after he lost the election. He will probably agree and then it will move to appeal, appeal, appeal, and someday down the road be resolved. If it didn’t follow that scenario, there would be another legal delay arguing over the approval of the “special master,” you know Trump will request someone outrageous

Irony is that it is probably already too late, should have been done days after the search, before a decision on the request can be resolved, the Justice Dept will have already reviewed the documents and will know what they contained

For one, I suspect the FBI has already looked through everything, and made copies. Secondly, the judge can appoint a special master while allowing the FBI to continue to evaluate what they have. I do think it would be a mistake for the judge to prevent the FBI from continuing it’s a valuation while a special master look through things.

 

[BartenderElite]

Which is exactly why both Democrats and Republicans feared him. Great job Mr. President.

LOL

Okay.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

No one tops Trump when he's cornered. He will throw every single thing available at the wall, hoping just one sticks.

it's a tried and true tactic employed by most politicians of both parties...............

 

[Gondwanaland]

Trump files motion seeking independent review of docs seized during FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago

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.

Trump said Monday evening the motion is "strongly asserting" his rights, "including under the Fourth Amendment of our Constitution, regarding the unnecessary, unwarranted, and unAmerican Break-In by dozens of FBI agents, and others, of my home, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-files-lawsuit-seeking-independent-review-fbi-raid-mar-a-lago

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Trump wants a Special Master to look at the documents and to decide what the DOJ can and cannot see. He wants the files sealed until the Special Master reviews the files.

​How embarrassing, these fucktards spent two weeks and they couldn't even put together a coherent request for a special master, to the point that they even cited court procedure for civil cases instead of criminal ones, and failed to follow basic court rules.

The judge pretty much gave them a 'okay go back and actually file something this time' rebuke and told them they have till Friday to actually make a coherent case for a special master.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/polit...ine/index.html

A federal judge in Florida has given former President Donald Trump until Friday to refine the legal arguments in his request for a special master to oversee the review of evidence gathered in the Mar-a-Lago search.


District Court Judge Aileen Cannon in the Southern District of Florida ordered Trump's lawyers to elaborate on their arguments for why the court has the ability to step in at this time, explain what exactly Trump is asking for and whether the Justice Department has been served with Trump's special master motion.

Cannon also asked Trump's team to weigh in on any effect the request might have on a separate review conducted by a magistrate judge into whether any portions of the still-sealed FBI affidavit laying out probable cause for the search can be released.

The judge's order showcases many of the ways that the complaint filed by Trump fell short of what would have been expected of a court submission asking for the appointment of a special master-- particularly in a search as high-stakes as the one FBI executed at Mar-a-Lago earlier this month.


"What's she saying is, 'What are you doing in front of me?'" Mark Schnapp, a criminal defense lawyer in Florida who spent seven years working for the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, told CNN.


Generally speaking, it is not outside the legal norm for Trump to want a special master involved in the review of the evidence seized from his Florida residence. His former lawyer, Michael Cohen successfully sought the appointment of a special master when Cohen's office and residences were searched by the FBI in 2018.

But Trump waited two weeks to make such a request, raising eyebrows because of how far along in the process the Justice Department likely is in reviewing what it seized at Mar-a-Lago. (For the review, the Justice Department is using what's known as "taint team," which is a group of prosecutors not working on the probe in question who filter out materials that should not be handed over to investigators.)

And when Trump did file his request with the court, the complaint leaned heavily into political accusations, while being light on the sort of legal discussion that would explain to a court why it should intervene and what authority it had to do so.

When Trump's lawyers did cite the court rules they said gave the judge the authority to grant the request, they cited the rules of civil procedure, without any explanation for why those rules should be applied in a context concerning a criminal search warrant.

Trump also did not file with the complaint the kind of separate request -- such as a motion for a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction -- that would have sped up the timeline for the judge to consider what Trump was asking for.

Nor did Trump's legal team file any declarations -- i.e. statements from the lawyers who were said to have interacted with the Justice Department in the lead-up and after the search -- to back up the complaint's factual assertions.


Instead, the complaint retread allegations about the FBI's investigation into Russia's 2016 election interference, while sensationally suggesting that the DOJ's actions were motivated by a desire to hinder a Trump 2024 presidential run. It also included the full text of a warning Trump supposedly sought to deliver through his lawyers to Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Schnapp said Trump's filing Monday read more like a political message than a legal document.

"They really didn't ask for anything. That's the craziness," Schnapp said. "They didn't ask for anything to be done in the immediate future to slow it down, even though that's what they claimed to be doing"

Trump's move to file a separate case that was assigned to Judge Cannon, rather than file the request with the magistrate judge who signed off on the warrant, also prompted confusion among outside legal experts. It appears that Trump's lawyers even ran into procedural issues with the filing of the lawsuit and with their attempts to enter appearances in the case.

The clerk posted one notice on the docket indicating that the complaint had been "filed conventionally" when it "should have been filed electronically," according to the court's local rules.

Another notice from the clerk indicated that the Trump attorneys who were seeking special admission to enter appearances in the case because they were not barred in Florida also failed to follow the local rules in doing so. They were given another chance to enter their appearances correctly.

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