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The third-party special master appointed to filter out any privileged materials from what was seized from Mar-A-Lago issued an order Thursday laying out a timetable for reviewing the more than 11,000 seized materials.
The DOJ's detailed inventory of materials seized at Mar-A-Lago, including any "specific items" that the DOJ lists were taken from, must be submitted by September 26.
The request comes after Trump repeatedly claimed on social media and in interviews that the federal government planted documents at Mar-A-Lago that weren't actually being stored there.
Trump has never offered any details of what he claims investigators planted during the search or made that allegation in court, and when asked Wednesday on Fox News whether security video from Mar-A-Lago would back up Trump's claims, he said he didn't.
Dearie wanted to know if the DOJ didn't list any documents that were wrongly listed on the government's inventory.
The government and Trump's attorneys should finish going through all the seized documents, identify which ones may be covered by attorney-client or executive privilege, and submit which documents they have disagreements over to Dearie. The DOJ can keep classified materials and not give them to Dearie according to the appeals court ruling. Even though Dearie is reviewing the seized documents, the government won't be able to use non-classified documents in their investigation.
The special master said he would be getting assistance from a retired judge. As the ex-president has been ordered to pay for the review, the retired Orenstein will bill the legal team $500 per hour. If Trump doesn't make timely payment, that will be considered a violation of the special master's order and could lead to sanctions.
The DOJ protested that the review of the Mar-A-Lago documents would hinder its investigation into whether Trump violated federal law, but the judge sided with Trump and appointed Dearie as the special master. The dispute over allegedly planted evidence marks the second time that Trump's legal team has been asked to prove his social media claims in court, as Dearie has also asked Trump's attorneys to answer whether or not he declassified any of the documents he brought back to Mar-A- The DOJ shouldn't be able to keep classified documents because Trump may have declassified them, according to Trump's attorneys. They don't want to say if he actually did because it could hurt their defense. The special master told Trump's counsel during a hearing Tuesday that they "can't have their cake and eat it" if they make the de classification argument.
Trump is suggesting that the F.B.I. might have planted evidence. The New York Times is a daily newspaper in the United States.
Donald Trump is reviving claims that the FBI planted evidence in Mar-a-Lago.
The DOJ can use classified documents in the Mar-a-Lago investigation.
The Mar-A-Lago case has a special master who is skeptical of declassification claims.
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