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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Oliver O'Connell and Sravasti Dasgupta

Trump news – live: Ex-president responds to DoJ blockbuster filing as Sarah Palin dramatically upset in race

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Obstruction emerges as key focus in Trump documents probe

As a new filing from his legal team failed to clarify their objections to the FBI’s search at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump accused the Justice Department of staging an already infamous photo of classified documents seized at his residence.

“There seems to be confusion as to the ‘picture’ where documents were sloppily thrown on the floor and then released photographically for the world to see,” he wrote on Truth Social, “as if that’s what the FBI found when they broke into my home. Wrong! They took them out of cartons and spread them around on the carpet, making it look like a big ‘find’ for them.”

Justice Department policy means that any charges resulting from the raid will likely not be announced until after the midterm elections.

Meanwhile, Truth Social users were quick to denounce Sarah Palin’s loss to Democratic candidate Mary Peltola in an Alaska special election as the result of election fraud.

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