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DOJ Completes Review Of Trump papers, Moots Demand For Special Master
- By The Financial District
- Aug 31, 2022
- 2 min read
The Justice Department has completed its review of potentially privileged documents seized from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate this month and has identified “a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information,” according to a court filing Monday, Aug. 30, 2022, Eric Tucker reported for the Associated Press (AP).
Photo Insert: The Justice Department has also been directed to submit under seal a more detailed description of the materials that were seized from Trump's estate in Palm Beach.
The filing from the department follows a judge's weekend order indicating that she was inclined to grant the Trump legal team's request for a special master who would oversee the review of documents taken during the Aug. 8 search of the Mar-a-Lago estate and ensure that any that might be protected by claims of legal privilege be set aside.
By completing its review of the Trump document stash in Mar-A-Lago, the DOJ has mooted the demand of Trump for a special master.
US District Judge Aileen Cannon said on Saturday that it was her “preliminary intent” to appoint a special master — which would be an early procedural win for the Trump legal team — but gave the department an opportunity to respond and scheduled a Thursday hearing to discuss the matter further.
The judge also directed the Justice Department to submit under seal a more detailed description of the materials that were seized from Trump's estate in Palm Beach, something the department on Monday said it would do.
In a related development, Richard Cowan reported for Reuters that US Representative Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans joining Congress's probe of the assault on the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters, accused members of his party of "hypocrisy" for defending the former president's handling of classified documents.
"The hypocrisy of folks in my party that spent years chanting ‘lock her up’ about Hillary Clinton because of some deleted emails or quote unquote wiping a server are now out there defending a man who very clearly did not take the national security of the US to heart," Kinzinger said during an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press."
