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US judge asks Trump’s team to justify claims about FBI search

The US Justice Department is conducting an investigation into former President Donald Trump's possible mishandling of classified material [File: Mary Altaffer/AP Photo]

The United States judge appointed to vet documents seized from Donald Trump’s Florida home last month has ordered the former US president’s legal team to provide evidence to back up Trump’s unsubstantiated claims that some of the files were planted by the FBI.

In a legal filing on Thursday, Raymond Dearie asked the Justice Department to certify by Monday a detailed inventory of the documents that were seized during the FBI’s August 8 search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

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