Top officials at the Department of Justice are downplaying recently disclosed documents showing FBI agents were authorized to use deadly force during their 2022 raid of Donald Trump's Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago.
Trump's attorneys are now asking Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over Special Counsel Jack Smith's espionage and obstruction case against Trump in Florida, to prohibit Smith from using any of the materials seized during the Mar-a-Lago raid at trial.
AP. The FBI's application for the warrant contained false information, the attorneys argue, and the raid violated even the very broad terms of the warrant.
To make their case to the judge, Trump's team on May 21 filed a copy of the FBI's plan to execute the warrant, which disclosed details about how agents were instructed to conduct the raid.
The House Judiciary Committee has since sent a letter to Garland asking for more records related to the search including communications between the FBI and Secret Service in advance of the raid.
AP. Smith said his request is "Necessary because of several intentionally false and inflammatory statements recently made by Trump that distort the circumstances under which the Federal Bureau of Investigations planned and executed the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago." Smith complained that Trump's comments about the raid "Create a grossly misleading impression about the intentions and conduct of federal law enforcement."
Trump's lawyers argue that FBI agents exceeded the scope of the warrant by searching the private rooms of Melania and Barron Trump.
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