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The mainstream media seemed poised to swoon effortlessly into Republicans' arms as partisans rushed to create a false equivalence between the discovery and swift return of classified documents by President Joe Biden's attorney to the National Archives and former president Donald Trump's efforts to stonewall the return of government documents.
Donald Trump's lawyers on Monday tried to argue against a DOJ request to carve out classified documents from the purview of the special master's examination of the government files recovered from Mar-a-Lago. Each side also objected to the individuals suggested by the other to fill the role of that special master.
The court released the much-ballyhooed affidavit on which the search of Mar-a-Lago was premised, and frankly, what was released doesn’t tell us much that we didn’t already know and fills out very few details of what we did already know.