The decision authorizes an outside expert to review the records taken during the Aug. 8 search and to weed out from the rest of the investigation any that might be protected by claims of attorney-client privilege or executive privilege.
Decision will likely slow Justice Department's investigation into top-secret information taken to FloridaDonald Trump departs Trump Tower on Aug. 10, two days after FBI agents conducted a search at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump had his request granted Monday for a special master to examine the seized documents.The decision by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon authorizes an outside expert to review the records taken during the Aug.
Pages from the affidavit by the FBI in support of obtaining a search warrant for Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.Even so, it is not clear that the decision will have a significant effect on any investigative or charging decisions or the ultimate outcome of the probe. A separate assessment by the U.S. intelligence community of the risk posed by the apparent mishandling of classified records will continue under the judge's order.
However, in a post on his Truth Social platform following Cannon's ruling, Trump wrote: "Remember, it takes courage and 'guts' to fight a totally corrupt Department of 'Justice' and the FBI." This image contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice, and redacted in part by the FBI, shows a photo of documents seized during the Aug. 8 search.Though Cannon did not order the Justice Department to immediately return any of the seized documents to Trump, she said she found persuasive his lawyers' arguments that he faced potentially "irreparable injury" by being denied access to records that might be of significant personal interest to him.
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