Trump news – live: Trump sues over Mar-a-Lago raid and asks for ‘special master’ to review docs
Donald Trump has filed his official response to the raid of Mar-a-Lago by FBI agents: A lawsuit demanding that the documents seized by the Justice Department be overseen by a special master.
Meanwhile Judge Bruce Reinhart, who approved the original search warrant, is weighing whether to order the redacted release of an affidavit that led to the authorisation for the search — or whether to keep it sealed completely.
The Justice Department is also speaking out. In a brief statement in response to Mr Trump’s lawsuit, a spokesperson for the agency noted that a judge had agreed that the government had established probable cause to execute a search warrant, and vowed to respond further in court.
For now, the raid appears to have boosted Donald Trump’s polling numbers among Republican voters, with various polls showing him rising relative to the most prominent GOP alternative, Ron DeSantis.
