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2 verified reports published on September 23, 2022.
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If the point of the special-master play was to slow-roll the investigation and create room for Trump’s declassification mythology, September 22 did not go to plan. The legal system kept asking for evidence, and Trump kept having to live with the absence of it. That is not a good look when your whole brand is pretending vibes are facts.
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The Eleventh Circuit on Sept. 21, 2022, granted the Justice Department a partial stay, letting investigators use the roughly 100 documents with classification markings seized from Mar-a-Lago while the special-master review continued for the rest.
Special Master Raymond Dearie asked Trump’s lawyers to say whether they had evidence supporting Donald Trump’s claim that the FBI planted material during the Mar-a-Lago search. The request was procedural, but it put the accusation on a short leash: either supply support or stop treating it like a fact.