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US Judge approves independent review of documents found at Trump Estate

A page from the order granting a request by former President Donald Trump's legal team to appoint a special master to review documents seized by the FBI during a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate. [VOA Photos]

A U.S. federal judge on Monday approved former President Donald Trump's request to have an independent special master appointed to review thousands of pages of national security documents and other materials seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to determine whether some of them should be returned to him.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in Florida authorized the appointment of the special master over the objections of the Justice Department, which told her last week it had already completed a review of the highly classified documents and other papers it took from Trump's wintertime oceanside retreat in a court-authorized search August 8.

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