“We just filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida asserting my rights, including the Fourth Amendment to our Constitution, regarding the unnecessary, unjustified and un-American invasion of my home by dozens of FBI agents, and others. , Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida,” Trump said. Trump repeated in his statement the allegation that the FBI prevented his legal team from following up on the investigation, a claim also made by his lawyer, Christina Bob. Trump also claimed agents raided his personal safe – accusing law enforcement in Monday’s statement of using a “secure cracker” – and seized documents “covered by attorney-client privilege and executive privilege,” protections that allow some communications to remain private. “We are now demanding that the Department of Justice be ordered to immediately stop reviewing the documents illegally seized from my home,” Trump said shortly after filing the legal motion in the Southern District of Florida. Trump’s legal move is aimed at halting the FBI’s review of materials recovered from his Mar-a-Lago residence. In the filing, Trump’s lawyers are asking the court to appoint a “special master” to oversee the process before the administration moves forward with the review. In his statement on Monday, Trump criticized the investigation and also the judge who approved the search warrant through which the FBI recovered 11 sets of classified documents from his home. “The illegal, excessive warrant was signed by a judge who recused himself just two months ago, from a MAJOR civil lawsuit I filed, because of his bias and hostility toward me,” Trump said of the recently unsealed search warrant that executed by the FBI. Unsealed documents suggest that investigators are looking into possible violations of the Espionage Act and other laws by the former president through his mishandling of documents kept at Mar-a-Lago after he left the White House. Trump noted Monday that his team is “taking all necessary steps to get the documents back” to deliver them to the National Archives “until they are required for the future Donald J. Trump Presidential Library and Museum.” Afghan refugee arrested in New Mexico murders Muslim men faces third murder charge Monkey pox reaches all 50 states Trump and the National Archives have been at odds for much of this year after the agency accused Trump of destroying White House documents that were meant to be preserved. While Trump continues to claim that all of the documents seized by the FBI were declassified, it’s possible that he didn’t follow any proper protocol in doing so. Some of the seized documents were so highly classified that some legal experts said it was impossible for anyone, even a president, to declassify them. The federal judge considering whether to release the affidavit that led to the approval of the search warrant at Trump’s home also said Monday that while he believes the public interest favors releasing the document, prosecutorial formalities could make it “without meaning”. Judge Bruce Rinehart’s order expands on an order the bench issued last week that gave the Justice Department until Thursday to propose corrections it says are necessary to protect its ongoing investigation into the former president.
