The former president said that the FBI also took his personal tax documents and attorney/client private material from Mar-a-Lago, which would demonstrate that he is a “absolutely flawless physical specimen.”
He made a comparison between the FBI raid on his Florida house and the Soviet era.
During his tenure as president, 76-year-old Trump repeatedly bragged about passing a mental ability test administered by his doctor and said that doctors were shocked by how well he remembers things.
According to court docs, the FBI found more than 11,000 official documents and pictures during its search of Trump’s Florida resort on August 8.
According to Trump, the FBI also recovered highly secret materials that showed the nuclear capabilities of an unidentified nation, in addition to medical information and financial records.
Even top officials of President Joe Biden’s administration and FBI officers were prohibited from seeing the retrieved papers because they needed such a high level of clearance.
With the Justice Department claiming that top secret papers were ‘likely withheld’ to thwart an FBI investigation into Trump’s alleged improper handling of classified secrets, Trump is coming under increasing legal pressure.
On the other hand, on Monday Judge Aileen Cannon granted Trump’s request to appoint a special master “to evaluate the confiscated property for personal goods and papers and possibly privileged information susceptible to claims of attorney client and/or executive privilege” to review the seized property.
Additionally, the judge nominated by Trump “temporarily enjoins” the government from “reviewing and utilising the confiscated documents” until the review is finished.
That has a secondary advantage of slowing the rapid-fire processes that have started since the August 8 FBI search of Mar-a-Lago for Trump and his legal team. The government’s prospective right to appeal might make the process even more drawn out.