FBI took records including some top secret national security files after a search of the ex-president’s Mar-a-Lago property
the FBI seized boxes “containing records covered by attorney-client privilege and potentially executive privilege”.anonymous sources said the justice department turned down Trump lawyers’ request to have such records reviewed by an independent third party.
Trump’s post on his Truth Social platform – which he launched after being thrown off Twitter over the Capitol attack – appeared to be in response to the Fox News report.: “Oh great! It has just been learned that the FBI, in its now famous raid of Mar-a-Lago, took boxes of privileged ‘attorney-client’ material, and also ‘executive’ privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken.”
The former president has used claims of mistreatment to boost fundraising and positioning for a potential presidential run in 2024, and his complaints have been echoed by supporters in the Republican party and across the American right. Among them, the Republican senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota argued on Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press that releasing the affidavit that persuaded a judge to permit the“The justice department should show that this was not just a fishing expedition,” Rounds said.
The Ohio congressman Mike Turner, the top Republican on the House intelligence committee, added: “We want to know what did the FBI tell them?”
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