New DOJ filing exposes Trump’s secret objections — and asks special master to call his bluff

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The Justice Department in a filing on Tuesday revealed the Trump legal team’s objections that they tried to keep under wraps.

Federal Judge Raymond Dearie, the special master tasked with reviewing thousands of documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, earlier this month challenged Trump’s lawyers to assert whether they believe his public claim that the FBI may have “planted” evidence during the search and produce evidence of Trump’s claim that he “declassified” secret national security documents before taking them home.

Trump’s team apparently responded with objections to Dearie’s plan for the special master review but they were not made public until the Justice Department responded to them in a filing on Tuesday.

“Team Trump is filing complaints under seal for some reason, but DOJ is discussing it not under seal, so we can largely infer what Trump is upset about,” New York Times national security reporter Charlie Savage flagged on Twitter.

The filing revealed that Trump’s lawyers objected to Dearie’s request that they verify that the search inventory filed by the DOJ is accurate, essentially daring Trump’s team to assert his dubious claim that the FBI may have “planted” evidence in official court documents. The DOJ affirmed that its inventory is complete and accurate and urged Dearie to require Trump’s lawyers to state whether they believe the list of items seized from the property is accurate.

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