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US Justice Department agrees to Trump pick for ‘special master’

The US Justice Department is investigating former President Donald Trump's possible mishandling of classified material [File: Andrew Kelly/Reuters]

The US Department of Justice has said it will accept one of Donald Trump’s suggestions for the neutral arbiter to review documents seized during the FBI’s raid of the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate last month.

In a court filing late on Monday, lawyers for the department said that, in addition to the two retired judges whom they earlier recommended to fill the “special master” role, they would also be satisfied with one of the Trump team’s selections.

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