The special master tasked with reviewing thousands of documents seized from Mar-a-Lago on Thursday demanded that former President Donald Trump's lawyers assert to the court whether the FBI lied about what they found.
Trump and his lawyers after the August 8 raid repeatedly claimed without evidence that the FBI may have "planted" evidence at Mar-a-Lago. Trump has largely backed away from that claim publicly, instead insisting that he may have "declassified" the documents found by the FBI — possibly just by "thinking" it. Federal Judge Raymond Dearie, who was who was chosen by Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon from a list proposed by Trump's lawyers, on Tuesday rebuked Trump's lawyers for refusing to submit any evidence of his declassification claim. Dearie on Thursday further challenged Trump's lawyers to back up the former president's "planted" evidence claims.
