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Lawyer says Justice Department’s June directive to Trump was ‘not the stuff of an urgent nuclear-based espionage-type investigation’

The former DOJ official said Mr Graham should be ‘ashamed of himself’ for what she called a ‘veiled threat’

Trump legal team has requested a special master to review the seized documents for materials covered by legal privilege.

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has ordered the Department of Justice to publicly release a significantly less-redacted version of the 2020 search warrant executed to seize North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr’s cellphone as part of an investigation into the Republican lawmaker’s stock trades at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mr Trump also claims he should be declared the winner of the 2020 election because, in his opinion, the FBI ‘buried’ a widely-publicised report on the contents of a laptop purportedly belonging to President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden

The DOJ is now following procedures set out in the search affidavit for the handling of privileged material.

A team has already reviewed some of the material seized at Mar-a-Lago and found some of the materials may contain information protected by attorney-client privilege, the Department of Justice said.

DoJ says government has already found ‘a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information’

The fact that Trump is leveraging his power to incite violence around these legal cases is a sign of weakness

Graham says ‘there is a double standard’ when it comes to former president Donald Trump

The unsealed affidavit detailed the evidence for the FBI's search at former President Trump's home.