The U.S. government has informed former President Donald Trump’s legal team that it will oppose any move for a so-called special master amid allegations that privileged materials were seized by federal agents from Trump’s Florida resort.
Trump’s attorneys gave the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) “a heads up that they wanted to ask for a special master in this case,” Alina Habba, one of Trump’s lawyers, said on Newsmax on Aug. 15.
The DOJ “did indicate to our attorneys that they were going to oppose that,” she added.
The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment….