In the latest push to toss out evidence in Donald Trump’s classified documents case, the former president’s lawyers complained Tuesday that the 2022 raid at Mar-a-Lago was “overly broad” and violated his rights because FBI agents dared to enter his son Barron and wife Melania’s rooms.
“Our argument is that agents searched rooms that they had no probable cause to search…And that bears on the question of whether the search was impermissibly broad for Fourth Amendment purposes,” defense attorney Emil Bove said in a Tuesday hearing, also noting that agents took medical records. “They searched the room where the president’s son kept his Peloton!”
Even Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointed jurist who has gone to great lengths to tilt the case in Trump’s favor, appeared skeptical about the argument. And, legal experts emphatically dismissed it, telling The Daily Beast that the FBI agents used standard operating procedure while executing the warrant and did not violate Trump’s Fourth Amendment rights.
“In Trump’s case, the warrant did allow agents to search Melania and Barron’s rooms,” former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told The Daily Beast. “Trump had access to those rooms and they could have contained........