degree on property that ought to be returned would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude. new york times points this out, quote, her ruling seemed to carve out a special exception to the normal legal process for the former president and reject the justice department s implicit argument that trump be treated like any other investigative subject. there are significant questions on how her new ruling will work, especially since the special master is permitted to review documents based on trump s claims of executive privilege. they re claims that have been rejected by the current head of the executive branch, that would be president joe biden. from the times reporting, quote, after trying for months to get the documents back from trump, the national archives, the agency that safeguards presidential records told his lawyers in a letter in may that both the justice department and the biden white house did not believe the former president s execut