Claiming their fat client’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated during the August 8th FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago and just hours before their big hearing in front of a panel at the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, disgraced former President Trump’s lawyers filed a motion with shitty federal Judge Aileen Cannon to try to get her to hand them an un-redacted copy of the search warrant affidavit.
It’s not clear they’re even in the right court as it was not Cannon, but Federal Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart who originally approved the warrant. The motion itself is the usual Trump victimhood type bullshit, but by far the best part comes in a footnote on the seventh page:
“A general rummaging through the belongings of President Trump is a particularly ominous moment in law enforcement history. With DOJ and some state officials engaging in various efforts to investigate President Trump, the search smacks of pretextual conduct with hopes of feeding personal documents to prosecutors or agents who might find use for them in unrelated pursuits. Authorization to seize ‘any other containers/boxes that are collectively stored or found together with the aforementioned documents and containers/boxes’ is an invitation to ‘rummage,’ which every court has recognized as barred under the Fourth Amendment,” Trump’s lawyers write.
Meaning they think it’s unfair that the FBI might have (and probably did) collect evidence that would be sought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in their respective investigations, not to mention the other federal prosecutors investigating Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election. Very sad!