A US District judge has revealed her intent to grant former US President Donald Trump's request to appoint a special master to review materials seized from his Mar-a-Lago home during FBI raids recently.
The Reuters reported that US District Judge Aileen M. Cannonon Saturday said it was her "preliminary intent" to grant former President Donald Trump's request to appoint a special master to oversee a review of materials seized on August 8 from his Florida home during an FBI raid.
Cannonon was nominated by Trump in 2020. The Juge also directed the Justice Department to submit under seal more details specifying all property seized pursuant to the search warrant, the publication reported.
The former US President has also demanded the Justice Department provide him with a more detailed receipt of items seized from his property during the FBI search and asked FBI investigators to return items that are outside the scope of the search warrant.
Reuters reported Cannon gave the government until Tuesday to file a response to Trump's request for a special master and set a hearing for Thursday. Her order said she had not made a final determination on Trump's request.
The Justice Department recently disclosed that it was investigating Trump for removing White House records as the Department believed that the former US President illegally held documents including some involving intelligence-gathering and clandestine human sources – among America's most closely held secrets.
In the affidavit, an unidentified FBI agent said the agency reviewed and identified 184 documents "bearing classification markings" containing "national defence information" after Trump in January returned 15 boxes of government records sought by the US National Archives, Reuters reported.
Trump, a Republican who is considering another presidential run in 2024, charged that the raids were politically motivated and called it a "break-in."
