President Donald Trump is suing the United States Justice Department over its handling of the classified documents raid at his Mar-a-Lago home on August 8th, 2022.
Trump's legal team is seeking $100 million in damages saying it was "unconstitutional" and a "political persecution." The team wrote in its administrative tort claim that the DOJ applied "inconsistent standards" with the search and was a "clear dereliction of constitutional principles."
The lawsuit also accuses FBI Director Christopher Wray of conducting a "malicious prosecution" against him, as well as Attorney General Merrick Garland, who tasked Smith in 2022 with supervising two federal investigations and the final indictment.
"Garland and Wray should have never approved a raid and subsequent indictment of President Trump because the well-established protocol with former U.S. presidents is to use non-enforcement means to obtain records of the United States. What President Trump is doing here is not just standing up for himself - he is standing up for all Americans who believe in the rule of law and believe that you should hold the government accountable when it wrongs you," Trump attorney David Epstein told reporters.
This comes less than a month after Florida U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed Trump's classified documents case that corrupt Special Counsel Jack Smith brought against Trump for the Crooked Joe Biden regime.
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