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Mar-a-Lago search warrant was properly granted, says Trump documents judge

Donald Trump in front of a US flag.
Donald Trump’s lawyers are seeking to prevent prosecutors from using incriminating evidence against him. Photograph: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images

The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case for retaining classified documents suggested she would deny his attempt to exclude the documents the FBI seized at the Mar-a-Lago club, saying at a hearing Tuesday that the warrant for the search had been properly granted.

The former president’s lawyers had contended the warrant was unconstitutionally vague and the FBI affidavit, used to convince the magistrate judge to find there was probable cause for a crime at the club, contained contextual omissions.

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