President Donald Trump will get back some of the documents the Justice Department seized at Mar-A-Lago, the special master reviewing the documents ordered Friday.
revealed that the DOJ’s Filter Team—which sorted out potentially privileged materials before Dearie was appointed—had offered to return the materials to Trump on August 30.
Instead, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon used those nongovernmental documents as a justification for the special master to be appointed, noting on September 5 that the filter team said there were materials like “medical documents, correspondence related to taxes and accounting information.” The DOJ said in the filing that those documents “do not appear to be privileged,” and are “all either legal in nature . . . or otherwise potentially sensitive” and do not appear to be presidential records, government documents or at all classified.
Among the approximately 300 pages of documents to be returned, according to the filing, are a letter from Trump’s physician from 2016; documents related to various Trump-related lawsuits; accounting and tax documents; a confidential settlement agreement between the PGA and Trump Golf; invoices for legal fees; the email accepting Trump’s resignation from the Screen Actors Guild; a draft nondisclosure agreement; and a signed letter from a Trump legal advisor to the Biden campaign.
“Being deprived of potentially significant personal documents . . . creates a real harm” for Trump and gives him an interest in the seized documents that justified a special master going through them, Cannon ruled.That’s how many documents the DOJ seized at Mar-A-Lago, making the subset of materials returned to Trump only a tiny portion of what the government had in its possession.
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