Both the government and Trump’s lawyers announced nominees for the special master to go through Trump’s things seized in the unprecedented FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.
As an added sideshow to the FBI’s “unprecedented and misguided” election season raid of former President Donald Trump, there’s the drama surrounding the candidates who might win the job of pawing through all of the confiscated documents.
Both the government and Trump’s lawyers, who are arguing over possessions taken from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago home on Aug. 8, announced nominees for the special master to go through Trump’s things.
One candidate, in particular, is causing plenty of pucker for those who support the former president.
One of Trump’s two candidates is Raymond Dearie, a retired federal judge in the Eastern District of New York.
Dearie was on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which makes him qualified to deal with classified documents — if indeed any were found at Trump’s Florida home, an argument renewed by his lawyers in a filing on Monday. He was the presiding judge over the FIFA scandal brought into the United States.
But Dearie comes with baggage. Big baggage.
Dearie was the judge who approved a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page.
The Page spy warrant gave the feds entree to spy on Trump’s 2016 campaign for president. Using the spy agencies’ two-hop rule, the feds could spy on not only Page but people he talked to and people they talked to.
