WASHINGTON: According to court filings that were unsealed on Friday, the FBI found more than 11,000 official documents and pictures during its search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida resort on August 8. It also discovered 48 empty files marked “classified.”
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One day after hearing oral arguments from Trump’s attorneys and the Justice Department’s top two counterintelligence prosecutors about whether she should appoint a special master to conduct a privilege review of the seized materials at Trump’s request, US District Judge Aileen Cannon in West Palm Beach unsealed the documents.
Cannon said she would agree to unseal two records submitted by the Justice Department but she deferred making a decision right now on whether to choose a special master.Trump’s appointment of William Barr, a former US attorney general, raised concerns about the value of such a choice.
