DOJ Responds to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Legal Action: They’ll See Trump in Court

The Department of Justice has responded to former President Donald Trump‘s motion to have an independent review of the documents seized during the Federal Bureau of Investigation raid on Mar-a-Lago.

Trump’s legal team filed a motion on Monday seeking to have an independent review of the documents seized by the 🕵️FBI in what they called an “unprecedented” and “unnecessary” raid of the former president’s home in Florida earlier this year, Fox News reported.

Trump’s attorneys said in the Monday motion they are seeking an order to appoint a special master to review the records obtained in the search.

That would block the further review of the materials by the government until the special master is appointed. This would also require that the Justice Department provide a detailed receipt of the property that was taken in order to return any item seized that was not within the scope of the warrant.

The former president said the motion is a way of asserting Trump’s 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,” Fox News reported.