The former president wants to temporarily prevent the seized documents from being used to launch serious criminal charges
After more than two weeks of inaction by his legal team, Donald Trump has officially sued the US government for the Aug. 9 FBI search at his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Palm Beach. This is an attempt to temporarily prevent the seized documents from being used against him until they have been reviewed by a special magistrate.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in a Florida court, calls for the appointment of an independent expert to review the documents in question to determine whether an attorney-client privilege applies. The appeal states that the Department of Justice cannot decide on its own whether the material will be used in its ongoing investigation. A legal strategy by the former president to try to obstruct a potential charge of serious criminal charges under the Espionage Act.
The federal executive has so far recovered a total of 300 classified documents in various attempts and negotiations with Trump’s legal team since the beginning of the year. The former president, who is trying to shape the public narrative in his favor, says in a statement on the lawsuit that the search was illegal, approved by a conflicting judge, and even suggests false evidence has been “planted” on his property.
Separately, a new scandal over the attempt to nullify the 2020 election reveals that Trump’s lawyers illegally obtained election data from voting machines that they shared with conspiracy theorists and right-wing media personalities. The revelation stems from a lawsuit over the security of voting systems in Georgia, and points to wider electoral security issues across the country.
In Michigan, a jury on Tuesday convicted two men for the attempted kidnapping of Democratic state Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, as part of a larger plot to commit terrorist acts and fuel a civil war of anti-government extremists.
Both defendants, Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr., were also found guilty of trying to obtain a bomb to blow up a bridge that would block the path of police after the kidnapping at the governor’s vacation home. This is the second trial against the defendants after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict in April. Two other men were acquitted and two more pleaded guilty and cooperated with their testimony in the prosecution’s case.
In the summer of 2020, the FBI investigated an informant within a Michigan paramilitary group who secretly recorded conversations about killing police officers and revealed drills at “shooting houses” in Wisconsin and Michigan. The federal agency raised the priority level of the case it categorized as domestic terrorism and infiltrated the group with two more informants and two undercover officers who were part of its operations to locate the residence and the bridge.
Source: La Verdad
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