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Judge grants Trump team a special master in Mar-a-Lago case

Judge grants Trump team a special master in Mar-a-Lago case

Judge grants Trump team a special master in Mar-a-Lago case

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A federal judge on Monday approved former President Trump’s request for a special master to review documents the FBI seized from Mar-A-Lago last month.

The special master is going to be chosen from a list of candidates that the government and former President Trump’s attorneys have until Friday to jointly recommend.

The judge said she granted Trump’s request for this independent review not because the government disregarded his constitutional rights as he argued, but because of the potential harm she said Trump could suffer if some sensitive information taken in the FBI search was somehow disclosed to the public.

In the meantime, federal prosecutors cannot go through the items as they build a criminal case. However, the judge said the Intelligence Community can continue to review them to assess whether there was any damage to national security by having classified documents stored unsecured at Mar-a-Lago.

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