Former President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit seeking what he calls an independent review of the files the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago.
Lawyers for the former president teased the possibility of major legal action in recent days.
The lawsuit is titled Trump v. United States Government.
The introduction starts off as follows, “Politics cannot be allowed to impact the administration of justice. President Donald J. Trump is the clear frontrunner in the 2024 Republican Presidential Primary and in the 2024 General Election, should he decide to run.”
It proceeds to say that the FBI should have considered that executing a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago would have distressed his supporters, who Trump says are “most” Americans.
The Hill has more:
In a 21-page motion that echoes much of the former president's claims that the search was politically motivated, Trump's attorneys ask for outside oversight to ensure the materials seized from his home do not include items they argue could be protected by executive privilege.
The suit asks for the court to enjoin the FBI from reviewing the evidence it has collected until a special master is appointed.
“It is unreasonable to allow the prosecutorial team to review them without meaningful safeguards,” Trump's attorneys write.
“Short of returning the seized items to the movant, only a neutral review by a special master can protect the ‘great public interest' in preserving ‘the confidentiality of conversations that take place in the president's performance of his official duties.'”
Violent rhetoric has risen dramatically against federal law enforcement officers in recent days, leading to pleas from allies of the former president and Fox News hosts like Steve Doocy to call on Trump to tamp down on inflammatory statements against the FBI because “the FBI was simply doing what the DOJ asked them to do.”
Two weeks ago, Ricky Walter Shiffer, who was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, attempted to breach an FBI office in Cincinnati with an AR-15 and a nail gun.
Shiffer was later killed when he aimed his gun at Ohio State Police.
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Hooray Yes
WHY haven’t Trump’s lawyers filed suit to block the entire group of documents based on the fact that the warrant is UNCONSTITUTIONAL, in that it was a general search warrant? A warrant is supposed to list specific items being searched for, which is totally absent from the document.
I agree with everything Trumps lawyers are presenting.
Just one guy with a nail gun and the Justice Dept claims it’s an insurrection of Trump supporters. Whatever happened to the FBI investigation into those responsible for burning down cities and businesses in 2020? Oh, right…..there was no FBI investigation. Probably because many of the activists in ANTIFA and BLM are FBI stringers or informants.
Well, I’m not holding my breath. We’ve been down this road 5 or 6 times seeking justice where no court will hear it. Trumps team has all of the evidence needed to break this whole thing up. If only an honest court would hear it. The evidence is what they were looking to secure at mara lago, as well as Rudy’s offices a couple of years ago. I think that the big ugly Demo giant just has crept too far into the roots of our nation. I pray for better outcome than I suspect will be. However, I do believe that we all walked into this thing ten years ago, expecting that everyone was playing by the same set of rules. Well, we were all naive. (so was DJT, however, I don’t blame him for that). But we are all much more informed now, and won’t fall for it again. The only thing that creates a risk now is how much more clever they can be at manipulating the truth. Sorry, I am skeptical at this point. What did Harry Carry say….. “I have seen too much to know I have seen too much”. Don’t know where we go from here except pray that God will sort this out for us.
Well said. Very well said
Keep in mind “We are Many, They are Few”. They have been picking off national leaders since November 22, 1963. Hoover’s FBI did the coverup in that assassination. CIA, and British SOE conspired to do the actual planning for it. For details, read the book Dope Inc, Britains Opium War Against the United States. The railroading of Trump was set up much earlier beginning 1983, with the targeting and railroading of Lyndon LaRouche into federal prison. Robert Mueller led the prosecution. The same Robert Mueller whom the “Just Us” Dept chose to frame up Trump. When that didn’t work they impeached him on the flimsiest of charges. After that failed they turned to CIA’s “Hammer and Score Card” vote fraud and absentee ballot mules to fraud Trump of the election. Not finished, Pelosi and company together with Christopher Wray’s FBI orchestrated January 6th Capitol bldg riot. Pelosi and Schiff then set up the Jan 6th Congressional Committee to pin it on Trump. They and the Just Us Dept. have done everything they can to brand Trump’s supporters “domestic terrorists”!! So where do we go from here? We must ensure the November 8th election is free and fair. No lockdowns or absentee ballot mules. No Hammer and Smartmatic electronic voter fraud. And nothing less than100% Transparency counting the votes. That will guarantee we clean their clocks come voting time. Meaning we vote the Dems out of power in both chambers, and restore the public faith in Constitutional government. Amen.
The Dems just KNOW that Trump is evil, a criminal, cannot be allowed to run for POTUS again – just like Liz Cheney says – so anything goes to bring him down and go after anyone else they can “turn” to help them accomplish their purpose of destroying the man.
It’s like Ronaldus Magnus said: “It’s not that the Democrats don’t know anything; it’s that they know so much that just isn’t true!”
Evil is a subjective term, however it is the Democrats and ELITES that have shown nothing but contempt for an American, even to the point of FABRICATING A HOAX to silence him. That alone EXUDES PURE EVIL exactly from the same people, who say they are for TRUTH & JUSTICE.
So this guy went after the FBI with a Nail Gun????? And an AR15??? Something sounds really fake about this or this guy is way out there or made to look so.
Why is it that all references to escalating violence against the FBI only refer to one individual and one incident from Ohio? If threats and violence were escalating, wouldn’t there be more than one perpetrator? Where were all the calls for calm and toned-down rhetoric during the carnage wrought by the Burn Loot and Murder crowd, or their accomplices in Antifa and the Democrat party?
The illegal raid on mar-a-lago was an FBI “ heist” cleared by Garland. There must have been documents relating to obama’s Crossfire hurricane that he doesn’t want exposed. Plus other incriminating documents on killary, the Ben Ghazi incident and many more. The crooks are terrified they will be outed, so they have to try to destroy Trump. This is not a new thing, this has been in the works since the Kennedy assassination( perpetrated by the CIA) Oswald was the scapegoat.
Top100socialists are running this cabal COMMUNIST takeover of these United States of America. Gates Soros zuck Dorsey Clintobama’s everyone knows who n where they are. It’s not your neighbor. America has crushed tyrants for 250 years each and every time. It’s just what Lady liberty and her good men do as a unique American thing. Indifference of good men enabled every tyrant in history. Let that NOT be said of this generation that they stood by in fear and indifference while Communist thugs raped lady liberty without proper resistance.