Mar A Lago raid raises more questions than answers.

Auburn WA

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The cloud surrounding the FBI’s unprecedented raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home intensified with reports that they seized records covered by attorney-client privilege. Last week’s raid took away five boxes and a set of documents that sources say were privileged information protected by the Sixth Amendment. They are all listed on the FBI’s property receipt, which along with the search warrant was released late last week. Some of the documents seized were labeled “top secret,” though Trump said emphatically that all of the records in his possession had been declassified. The tactics employed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) were already under fire before the revelation of the privileged documents was made. This along with baseless but breathless insinuations by the mainstream media that Trump harbored “nuclear secrets” in his private residence. Like maybe the launch codes for nuclear missiles? The DOJ also rejected a request by the former president’s team to appoint a “special master,” an independent judicial official to oversee the documents. That person would decide which materials would be kept by the government and which need to be returned to Trump and his lawyers. The real question is why did they even have a raid at Mar A Lago when Trump was working with the National Archives and why did the FBI want all security cameras turned off during the raid.