The special master handling the Mar-a-Lago raid has given former President Donald Trump a short deadline to provide details that would bolster his claims about documents the FBI seized, a day after the Justice Department scored an appeals court win.
Judge Raymond Dearie, who was appointed special master by Judge Aileen Cannon, gave Trump’s team until Sept. 30 to submit a declaration on a number of key issues, including what appeared to be a reference to suggestions by Trump allies that some of the evidence the FBI said it had seized was somehow planted.
The three-judge panel’s decision was a win for the DOJ, with the appeals court also reversing Cannon’s determination that the DOJ would have to provide roughly 100 documents with classified markings to a special master for independent review. He also said “a government official with sufficient knowledge of the matter” would need to submit an affidavit on whether the property inventory provided by the Justice Department “represents the full and accurate extent of the property seized” from Mar-a-Lago. He stressed that this would be “excluding documents bearing classification markings.
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