FBI seized almost 200,000 pages of documents from Trump at Mar-a-Lago, his lawyers say in new court filing

Workers move boxes onto a truck on West Executive Avenue between the White House and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021.

Lawyers for Donald Trump said in a new court filing that the FBI seized 200,000 pages of documents from his Florida home.

The FBI took about 11,000 documents from Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in August in connection with a criminal investigation of his removal of government documents from the White House. A lot of the documents were classified.

It was the first time that the huge number of pages that comprise those documents was made public.

According to the filing, the Department of Justice is optimistic and aggressive about meeting deadlines for the scanning of the seized documents by an outside data vendor and their review by a so-called special master.

The special master was appointed by another federal judge to review the seized files to make sure they are not used in the criminal investigation.

Trump's lawyers say that mid-October is a realistic final production deadline as opposed to the DOJ's position that a vendor could finish the scanning process by October 7.

A man walks past boxes that were moved out of the Eisenhower Executive Office building, just outside the West Wing, inside the White House complex, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, in Washington.

The DOJ was able to use the classified documents that were seized from Mar-a-Lago.

When a president leaves office, government records must be given to the National Archives and Records Administration.

The DOJ says that Trump doesn't have the right to invoke executive privilege over any of the government documents that he had.