Former President Donald Trump promised legal action in response to the August 8 federal raid and search of his Florida home.
“A major motion pertaining to the Fourth Amendment will soon be filed concerning the illegal break-In of my home, Mar-a-Lago, right before the ever important Mid-Term Elections,” Trump posted to his Truth account.
“My rights, together with the rights of all Americans, have been violated at a level rarely seen before in our Country,” Trump continued. “Remember, they even spied on my campaign. The greatest Witch Hunt in USA history has been going on for six years, with no consequences to the scammers.”
“It should not be allowed to continue!”
The Epoch Times further reported:
Trump’s announcement, if it were to materialize, represents the former president’s first major legal move after the feds raided his Florida home. It is unclear as of writing who Trump plans to sue, but the Department of Justice (DOJ), specifically Attorney General Merrick Garland—who said he “personally approved” the warrant—would likely be among the defendants.
One of Trump’s lawyers, James Trusty, said on the Mark Levin show late Friday that the lawsuit will come “very soon.”
“It should be something that gets publicly filed, so the whole United States will get to read this thing,” Trusty, a former federal prosecutor, said of the lawsuit on the show. “And I think that’s very important to the president. He’s been very transparent through this whole process.”
“It’s coming very soon,” Trusty said, adding that the team will possibly file it Monday.
Trusty said that the team plans to request judicial intervention via a special master, an appointee by the court who will oversee an aspect of the lawsuit. A special master, on rare occasions, is needed in cases where a “privilege issue” is present, Trusty said, such as when a search warrant is executed at an attorney’s office. He added that this case warrants the assignment of a special master because it involves issues of attorney-client privilege and executive privilege.
“We have to get somebody in the middle because we are not going to leave it to DOJ to tell us that they are doing their filter search, and they are the guardians of what’s privileged or not,” Trusty said, adding that the special master can order to halt the DOJ’s document reading.
“We are going to have court involved, judicial intervention, at the district court level to get somebody in the mix here that can help us vindicate the Fourth Amendment rights of the president.”
A ruling favorable to former President Bill Clinton about audio tapes stored in his sock drawer bolster Trump’s legal claim he declassified all documents found at Mar-a-Lago. Washington, D.C., District Judge Amy Berman Jackson rejected a lawsuit against Clinton, concluding no provision in the Presidential Records Act could force the National Archives to seize records from a former president.
A president’s discretion on what are personal vs. official records is far-reaching and solely his, as is his ability to declassify or destroy records at will, she ruled, according to a Just the News report.
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