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Aug. 8, 2022: Trump discloses that FBI agents searched Mar-a-Lago and broke into a safe in what one of Trump's sons said was part of a federal investigation into retention of records. It shows that 11 sets of classified documents were taken from Trump's property. Nov. 16, 2022: Trump announces he will run for the Republican nomination in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Nov. 20, 2022: U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appoints U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith to preside over criminal matters relating to Trump, including the classified documents investigation. December 2022: Trump lawyer Tim Parlatore appears before a federal grand jury in Washington to describe efforts to search Trump properties for any remaining government documents.

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☆ Trump claims documents found at Mar-a-Lago were empty folders labeled 'classified' that he'd kept because they were 'cool'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Trump claimed that government records seized from Mar-a-Lago last year were empty folders marked "classified" or "confidential." He went on to say that he kept the "ordinary, inexpensive folders" because they were a "'cool' keepsake." He added: "Remember, these were just ordinary, inexpensive folders with various words printed on them, but they were a 'cool' keepsake." Documents seized by FBI at Mar-a-Lago. Following that discovery, Biden's legal team undertook an "exhaustive" search and uncovered a second batch of classified documents at another location, NBC News reported last week.

CNN —The special master review of evidence seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is no more. Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday formally dismissed the case, which Trump brought to challenge the Mar-a-Lago evidence collection and in which she appointed special master Raymond Dearie, another judge, to make recommendations on whether prosecutors could access evidence. The dismissal of the case now gives the Justice Department full access to tens of thousands of records and other items found among documents marked as classified in Trump’s beach club and private office. The court told Cannon the case must be dismissed and there will be no further proceedings before Cannon in the Southern District of Florida. That critique culminated in a scathing opinion from an appellate court panel – stacked with GOP appointees – that tore apart Trump and Cannon’s rationale for why the special master was necessary.

☆ Judge dismisses Trump's case challenging Mar-a-Lago document seizure after appeals court ends special master review
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

An aerial view of former U.S. President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home after Trump said that FBI agents raided it, in Palm Beach, Florida, August 15, 2022. Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, signed a one-page order dismissing the case for lack of jurisdiction. That includes Trump's effort to obtain an unredacted version of the search warrant affidavit that was used to sanction the raid. Cannon in September had appointed retired Judge Raymond Dearie as special master, while she blocked the Justice Department from reviewing the seized materials as part of a criminal investigation. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled Dec. 1 that Cannon should not have appointed the special master, writing that she "improperly exercised" an expansion of her jurisdiction.

☆ The federal judge who appointed Trump's special master just threw out his lawsuit against the FBI's raid of Mar-a-Lago
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Jake Epstein | Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A federal judge officially dismissed the special master reviewing documents seized at Mar-a-Lago. Judge Aileen Cannon wrote in a Monday one-page order that she was dismissing the case because of a "lack of jurisdiction." A three-judge federal appeals court on December 2 wrote a scathing decision overturning Cannon's initial decision to side with Trump and grant him a special master to review documents taken in the FBI's search. During a search of Mar-a-Lago on August 8, the FBI seized boxes of materials, some highly classified, according to court records. Trump has without evidence accused the FBI of planting materials at his home, and the special master, Senior Judge Raymond Dearie, said Trump's team must provide evidence to support their claims.

☆ Appeals court vacates order appointing Trump Mar-a-Lago search warrant watchdog
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

A member of the Secret Service is seen in front of the home of former President Donald Trump at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida on August 9, 2022. Cannon also temporarily blocked the DOJ to review or use the seized documents for its investigation while Dearie's examination of them was pending. We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant," the panel wrote. Accordingly, we agree with the government that the district court improperly exercised equitable jurisdiction, and that dismissal of the entire proceeding is required." That justification would be the fact that Trump "is a former President of the United States," the appeals panel noted.

The 11th Circuit also overturned Cannon's decision to bar investigators from accessing most of the records pending the review. Trump is likely to appeal the 11th Circuit's action to the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court. Cannon appointed Raymond Dearie, another federal judge, at Trump's request to review the records to consider whether any should be walled off from the criminal investigation. Trump sued two weeks after the Mar-a-Lago raid, arguing that his status as a former president required a third-party review of the documents. Justice Department lawyers also said Trump, as a former president, cannot invoke executive privilege for documents that belong to the current executive branch of the U.S. government.

☆ An appeals court sounded skeptical of Donald Trump's arguments in the Mar-a-Lago records dispute
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( C. Ryan Barber | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

An appeals court panel grilled a Trump lawyer but had few questions for the Justice Department. One judge scolded Trump's lawyer for referring to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago as a "raid." asked Grant, a Trump appointee who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his tenure on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. During Tuesday's arguments, Justice Department lawyer Sopan Joshi likened Trump's arguments to "shifting sands," saying that the former president had initially claimed seized records were subject to attorney-client privilege. At the Supreme Court, he said, Trump's lawyers then argued that the dispute centered on the issue of whether classified documents had been declassified.

Trump, a Republican, has accused the Justice Department of engaging in a partisan witch hunt. NEW YORK CRIMINAL PROBEThe Trump Organization is on trial on New York tax fraud charges, in a criminal case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Committee vice chair Liz Cheney, a Republican, has said the committee could make referrals to the Justice Department seeking criminal charges against Trump. Only the Justice Department can decide whether to charge Trump with federal crimes. Legal experts said Trump may have violated at least three Georgia criminal election laws: conspiracy to commit election fraud, criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and intentional interference with performance of election duties.

[1/2] Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a rally to support Republican candidates ahead of midterm elections, in Dayton, Ohio, U.S. November 7, 2022. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday set the date for the arguments. The department has asked the 11th Circuit to reverse Cannon's appointment of Dearie, who is a U.S. district judge. Trump's attorneys sued two weeks after the search and sought the appointment of a special master to independently review the records. Trump last week asked the 11th Circuit to keep Dearie's review in place.

Under federal law, a president can retain personal records after leaving office, but these must be unrelated to official work. It is not clear from the redacted court filings exactly which documents Trump is claiming as personal. The department said Trump cannot assert executive privilege over any documents he has claimed as personal records because any such records must be unrelated to official duties. The Justice Department is appealing Cannon's decision to appoint a special master, telling the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Cannon initially barred the department from using all of the seized records for its criminal investigation until Dearie's review is complete.

After James announced the lawsuit, Trump in a social media post called the action "Another Witch Hunt." NEW YORK CRIMINAL PROBEThe Trump Organization is set to go on trial on Oct. 24 on New York state criminal tax fraud charges. Legal experts said Trump may have violated at least three Georgia criminal election laws: conspiracy to commit election fraud, criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and intentional interference with performance of election duties. A California federal judge said on Wednesday in a separate lawsuit that Trump had knowingly made false voter fraud claims in a Georgia election lawsuit, according to emails the judge reviewed. read moreIt is not immediately clear what ramifications Trump could face from the ruling.

☆ Trump insisted on having a special master in the Mar-a-Lago case, but that call is increasingly backfiring
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Judge Raymond Dearie accused Trump's lawyers of making contradictory claims. Trump pushed for Dearie to be appointed, but it's a decision that visibly backfired. In earlier hearings, Dearie has pushed Trump's lawyers to provide evidence to back the claims Trump's made in public. In reply Trump's legal team shied away from answering, saying that presenting the evidence could imperil his defense in a potential trial. Aileen Cannon, the main judge in the Mar-a-Lago case overruled Dearie when he pushed Trump's lawyers to provide the evidence by a specific deadline, shielding them from a further pitfall.

The Justice Department in its petition to the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon exceeded her authority when she named the special master to vet the more than 11,000 seized documents. The Justice Department is investigating whether Trump broke the law by taking government records to his Florida estate after leaving office in January 2021. Now, the Justice Department is appealing the rest of Cannon's order. Prosecutors said in a court filing this week they had turned over the bulk of the seized records for Trump's attorneys to review.

The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal appeals court to vacate an order appointing a special master to review documents seized during the FBI's search of former President Donald Trump's Florida estate — and to throw out Trump's legal challenge altogether. The 11th Circuit also blocked the special master and Trump's lawyers from being able to review those classified documents, citing the DOJ's national security concerns. The Justice Department also said that Trump's team has not provided any evidence the documents were wrongly seized or that the former president has any need for their return. Trump's team is scheduled to file its response in the case on Nov. 10. Trump's team had sought to allow the special master, federal Judge Raymond Dearie, to review the more than 100 documents taken from Mar-a-Lago that were marked classified.

☆ Supreme Court rejects Trump's request to intervene in the Mar-a-Lago records case
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Sonam Sheth | C. Ryan Barber | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Supreme Court refused to grant Trump's request to intervene in the Mar-a-Lago records case. Trump asked the court to vacate part of a lower court ruling granting the DOJ access to a set of classified records. Trump's lawyers had asked that a special master review the records for privileged materials before the DOJ could use them. In its order, the Supreme Court gave no indication of dissents or the reasoning behind its denial of Trump's request. With his request to the Supreme Court, Trump narrowly challenged a decision by a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.

In a filing on Tuesday, the Justice Department urged the Supreme Court to reject Trump's request because he has not pointed to any "clear error" in the lower court's decision or shown how he is harmed by it. Cannon had temporarily barred the Justice Department from examining the seized documents until the special master she appointed, Judge Raymond Dearie, had identified any that could be considered privileged. The Justice Department has "attempted to criminalize a document management dispute and now vehemently objects to a transparent process that provides much-needed oversight," Trump's lawyers added. At issue in the 11th Circuit's ruling were documents bearing classified markings of confidential, secret or top secret. In an interview on Fox News last month, Trump asserted that he had the power to declassify documents "even by thinking about it."

☆ Justice Department urges Supreme Court to reject Trump request over seized Mar-a-Lago documents
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Lawrence Hurley | Lawrence Hurley Covers The Supreme Court For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to reject former President Donald Trump's request to allow the special master reviewing documents seized from Mar-a-Lago access to those marked as classified. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said in court papers that Trump would suffer "no harm at all" if the documents are temporarily withheld from the special master. Addressing Trump's potential ownership stake in the documents, including possible assertions of attorney-client privilege of executive privilege, Prelogar said Trump had "no plausible claims." Under federal law, official White House records are federal property and must be handed over to the National Archives when the president leaves office. Trump says he did nothing improper and wants Dearie to determine the status of the documents, including those marked as classified.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 3, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew KellySept 28 (Reuters) - Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are resisting a federal judge's instruction to submit a sworn declaration on whether they believe the government's list of property taken from Trump's Florida estate is accurate. Trump's attorneys also said in a letter filed in court Wednesday that the roughly 11,000 records seized by federal agents consist of almost 200,000 pages. Trump said in a recent Fox News interview he had declassified it all, but his lawyers have not made this claim in official court filings. Trump could still appeal the 11th Circuit's ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, but thus far has not done so.

☆ Trump's legal team says that vendors don't want to work with them for special-master review because 'seasoned IT professionals' can't handle the government's 11,000 files and strict deadlines
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Following the Mar-a-Lago raid, Trump asked for (and was granted) a special master to review government docs. The filing was in response to the government's filing on Tuesday, where the Department of Justice said that the vendors simply refused to be engaged by Trump's team. Following the raid, Trump's team sued the DOJ asking for a third party, or special master, to review the documents. On Tuesday, the DOJ asked special master Raymond Dearie for an additional day to turn over nonclassified documents in the investigation. Dearie, so far, has pushed back on several of Trump's legal team's claims in the case.

☆ The DOJ is pushing back against Trump's claim the FBI planted evidence at Mar-a-Lago, as he comes under pressure to provide evidence
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The DOJ pushed back against Donald Trump's claim the FBI planted evidence. Neither Trump nor his attorneys have backed his planting claim with evidence. Trump, his allies, and some of his attorneys have for weeks in media interviews been pushing the conspiracy theory that evidence was planted at Mar-a-Lago. They have also not presented evidence for his claim that he declassified swaths of top secret documents retrieved by the FBI in the search. Trump's lawyers went to court to get the appointment of a special master in the case, which delayed the FBI's probe.

☆ The DOJ is having such a hard time finding document digitization vendors willing to work with Trump that it requested more time for the special master review
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The special master will have to wait a little longer to get his hands on files lugged to Mar-a-Lago. None of the five vendors the DOJ suggested to scan docs wanted to work with Trump, per a new filing. The DOJ asked for one more day to choose someone to digitize 11,000 files for the special master. According to new court documents filed Tuesday, the DOJ is asking special master Raymond Dearie for an additional day to turn over non-classified documents in the investigation. In its latest filing, the DOJ also prodded Trump's team to submit an inventory list of the materials seized by the FBI.

☆ The special master Trump requested is calling for extra help to review the seized Mar-a-Lago documents — and will be billing Trump $500 an hour for it
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Judge Raymond Dearie is calling for help to get through the documents the FBI seized. He nominated a retired judge, James Orenstein, to aid him — at the cost of $500 per hour. This bill will be footed by Trump, who has been asked to pay for the special master he requested. During its raid on Mar-a-Lago, the FBI seized batches of classified documents, including some marked "top secret." In the filing, Dearie asked that Orenstein, who is retired, be "compensated at the hourly rate of $500."

☆ Special master in the Mar-a-Lago case is testing Trump's lawyers to see if they will lie in court, analyst says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The special master in the Mar-a-Lago case has asked Trump's lawyers to back up some of his claims. CNN's legal analyst saw this as a test of whether they were prepared to lie for him in court. Trump's lawyers have argued that defending his declassification claims at this stage could damage their defense in a potential trial, drawing an unimpressed response from Dearie. Trump's legal team spent weeks persuading federal court judge Aileen Cannon to appoint a special master to review the documents, a move that stalled the FBI's investigation and which the Department of Justice opposed. The special master has until November 30 to complete the review of the documents, and will hand back to Trump any that are shielded under executive privilege rules.

The appeals court also said it would agree to reverse a portion of the lower court's order that required the government to hand over records with classification markings for the special master's review. A Justice Department spokesperson did not have an immediate comment. Cannon, a Trump appointee herself, appointed Dearie to serve as special master in the case at Trump's request, despite the Justice Department's objections about a special master. While it voiced disagreement, however, the Justice Department did not appeal that portion of Cannon's order. It is not clear if prosecutors may separately seek to appeal other parts of Cannon's ruling on the special master appointment.

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