Trump wants Justice Department to pay him $100 million for alleged damages from FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search
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Lawyers for Donald Trump have filed a $100 million claim with the Justice Department, alleging that the federal search of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 was inappropriate and hurt Trump’s reputation, an attempt to keep alive the narrative that the former president has been persecuted by a biased Biden administration.
Lawyers for Donald Trump have filed a $100 million claim with the Justice Department, alleging that the federal search of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 was inappropriate and hurt Trump’s reputation, an attempt to keep alive the narrative that the former president has been persecuted by a biased Biden administration. The administrative claim for alleged damages is unlikely to gain steam given that the search was approved by a federal judge after months of investigation and negotiations with Trump’s lawyers. The claim has been filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act, which allows people wronged by government employees to seek compensation from federal agencies. The search in 2022 came after months of attempts by the Justice Department to have Trump and his lawyers voluntarily turn over hundreds of classified records he kept after leaving the White House. Before the search, federal investigators developed evidence and testimony that led them to believe Trump was intentionally hiding boxes of documents from them and his own lawyers. A federal judge in Florida signed off on the Justice Department’s approach, giving them a warrant to search the property. The claim made to the Justice Department last week argues that Trump is the victim of “intrusion upon seclusion, malicious prosecution, and abuse of process” when the FBI searched his beach resort and collected unsecured national security records there. Trump says in the claim he’s been harmed by the criminal charges brought several months after the search because he had to spend “tens of millions of dollars defending the case and his reputation.” He also alleges the Justice Department is trying to hamper his reelection campaign.
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