Taking “political persecution” to the courts, former President Donald Trump set a nine-figure target as his attorney filed a notice to sue the Justice Department over the Mar-a-Lago raid.
Little more than two years after the FBI took unprecedented action against a former president and raided Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida home, the dismissal of the case paved the way for the GOP leader to strike back.
Following U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling that the appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel in the documents case was unlawful, and the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity, Trump’s attorney Daniel Epstein filed claims that “tortious acts against the president are rooted in intrusion upon seclusion, malicious prosecution, and abuse of process resulting from the August 8, 2022 raid of his and his family’s home at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach Florida.”
Reporting details of the memo, Fox News indicated that the DOJ had 180 days following its receipt to respond with a resolution or the case would move to federal court in the Southern District of Florida.
