It’s the first formal legal action taken by Trump since the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago home two weeks ago.
Former President Donald Trump asked a federal judge Monday to appoint an independent “special master” to look through documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago home, marking the first formal legal action by Trump’s attorneys since the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago two weeks ago amid a federal investigation into his handling of government records.
Trump’s request for a special master isn’t unusual. After the FBI searched the office of then-Trump attorney Michael Cohen in 2018, retired federal judge Barbara Jones was appointed as a special master and tasked with sifting through documents recovered by agents for an investigation into tax and campaign finance issues.
