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1 verified report published on August 22, 2022.
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The search may have happened on August 8, but August 22 was when Trump’s team started turning the wreckage into a bigger wreck. The more they leaned on sweeping claims and grievance theater, the more they underlined the original problem: the records were there, they should not have been there, and the story was getting worse by the hour.
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Trump’s legal team filed a lawsuit on Aug. 22, 2022, seeking a special master to review materials seized from Mar-a-Lago after the Aug. 8 search. The filing tried to slow the government’s use of the records and narrow the dispute, while the public record at the time still left key questions about classification and handling unresolved.