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Trump Team Drops Email Proving FBI Wrongly Seized Passports After Media...

• https://www.breitbart.com, By: PAUL BOIS

Donald Trump's legal team demolished the Department of Justice's (DOJ) media spin that denied having the former president's passports in their possession following the FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago last week.

On Monday, former President Trump claimed on his social media site TruthSocial that the FBI "stole" his passports during the raid that shook the political world last week.

"In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three Passports (one expired), along with everything else," he said. "This is an assault on a political opponent at a level never seen before in our Country. Third World!"

As Breitbart News noted, the passports were "not independently itemized on the FBI's property receipt of the 28 inventory items federal agents seized."

"The warrant, which Attorney General Merrick Garland says he approved and was signed by Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, did not state that they could take Trump's passport," the report noted. "Typically, the government needs a separate court order to seize someone's passport, even temporarily."

According to Norah O'Donnell of CBS News, a DOJ official said the former president's passports were not in their possession, one of which presumably would have been a diplomatic passport.

"According to a DOJ official, the FBI is NOT in possession of former President Trump's passports. Trump had accused the FBI of stealing his three passports during the search of his Mar-a-Lago home," O'Donnell announced on Monday.


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