Documents allegedly wrongly taken from Trump

 Washington Examiner:

Nestled in the trove of documents snatched from Mar-a-Lago in August was a slew of personal materials, such as healthcare documents, tax forms, retainer agreements for lawyers, and more, according to a report.

The revelation comes from logs drafted by the Justice Department that were ordered sealed by a judge but inadvertently posted on the public court docket, shedding light on what was confiscated from the Palm Beach resort. The logs are no longer visible to the public but were caught by Bloomberg News.

The logs were created by the Justice Department's in-house "Privilege Review Team" and include two sections. The first mostly lists Mar-a-Lago documents pertaining to government matters, and the second outlines documents that the filter team believes might need to be returned to former President Donald Trump.

Among the material listed to return to Trump was a "medical letter" and documents relating to Trump's legal squabbles over the years, such as a settlement with the PGA Tour, according to the report.

In its list of government documents, the team identified a list of documents named “The President’s Calls,” which included handwritten notes accompanied by the presidential seal.

In total, the filter team flagged 64 sets of material — 520 pages — to review and possibly return to Trump. A prior court filing by Trump's legal team revealed that about 200,000 pages worth of documents had been seized during the Aug. 8 raid.

The logs were accidentally included in a recently unsealed Aug. 30 report in which the DOJ explained to the court how its filter team combed through the Mar-a-Lago stash, per the report. The filter team identified and separated the potentially privileged documents from the government and classified material sought by the DOJ in the raid.

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There is more.

This does not look like a good-faith investigation.  It has the appearance of a "get Trump" operation by the DOJ and FBI.

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