Donald Trump may not be the President you want; he is the President you need. Pray to God he runs and wins again. He proved the truth of this by filing a motion in the Southern District of Florida to have his and your Fourth Amendment rights protected after the FBI raid (and it was) on his Mar-a-Lago home and club in Palm Beach. Trump wants the court to provide a special master to oversee all aspects of the items seized in the raid. Major move, player.

I have only 12 hours of business law credits, but even I thought that going through Melania’s unmentionables could not have been listed in the warrant. The FBI has not denied it, so it must be true. The Fourth Amendment is pretty darn clear:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

And, since they have already been returned, Mr. Trump’s passports were clearly not listed.

Trump announced the filing of the motion on his Truth Social site just before six p.m. last night:

You can read the full 27 page filing here. In this filing, Trump as the Plaintiff is called the Movant. CNN has some interesting details from the filing:

The filing states that at 9:10 a.m. ET on the day of the search, that same top Justice Department official – Jay Bratt, the head of the counterintelligence section in the Department of Justice’s national security division – telephoned Trump’s lawyers to tell them a search warrant was being executed at Mar-a-Lago.

“Heated discussion ensued as to why the Government did not make a voluntary request to further explore the premises, given the expansive assistance that President Trump had provided to that point,” the lawsuit said.

In Trump’s telling, the search took nine hours and involved two dozen FBI agents.

The lawsuit recounted a request from Bratt that Mar-a-Lago’s surveillance cameras be turned off – a request that the filing said was declined. Bratt also asked for the names of the Trump attorneys who may have been arriving at the search. The new lawsuit claims that Bratt rebuffed a request from Trump’s team that they be provided the affidavit.

“Among other actions taken after being notified of this unprecedented event, counsel for President Trump contacted three attorneys in the general area who agreed to go to Mar-a-Lago,” the lawsuit said. “Once they arrived, they requested the ability to enter the mansion in order to observe what the FBl agents were doing, which the Government declined to permit.”

Yes, that sounds like a raid to me. And, they broke into his safe. In the filing to request a Special Master, the New York Times found that the Trump lawyers made “bombastic” claims:

The motion, which was filled with bombastic complaints about the search — “The government has long treated President Donald J. Trump unfairly,” it said at one point — also asked the Justice Department to provide an “informative receipt” of what was taken from Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s home and club in Florida, on Aug. 8. His lawyers wrote that the inventory left at the property by the agents who conducted the search was “legally deficient” and did “little to identify” the seized material.

Tellingly, the New York Times is worried that the appointment of a Special Master will cause a delay in getting Trump into an orange jumpsuit:

If the judge who received the motion, Aileen M. Cannon, appoints a special master in the case, it will almost certainly drag out the process of reviewing the multiple boxes of documents that were seized and slow down the government’s investigation into whether Mr. Trump obstructed a federal inquiry and wrongfully retained national defense documents.

Representative Mike Turner asks an important questions in this video: Why did the FBI spend nine hours in Mar-a-Lago?

Adam Schiff needs to shut his gob since it only spits lies.

We dodged a bullet when Merrick Garland was denied a seat on the Supreme Court. We will count that as the one good thing that Senator Mitch McConnell has done. I don’t trust the Department of Injustice or Federal Bureau of Instigations. They want Trump in an orange jumpsuit too. Expect headlines that read “The Walls Are Closing in On Donald Trump” for weeks. He is the President we need.

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