An attorney for former President Donald Trump has filed a legal notice announcing that his client plans to sue the Justice Department and the FBI for $115 million for alleged "malicious political prosecution" and "abuse of process." The notice, a copy of which NBC News obtained Monday, baselessly accuses DOJ leadership and special counsel Jack Smith of having perpetrated a "malicious political prosecution aimed at affecting an electoral outcome to prevent President Trump from being re-elected" — a frequent accusation that Trump makes online and during campaign events. "This malicious...

On Monday morning, August 12, the news broke that former President Donald Trump is planning to sue the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for $100 million for the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago in 2022. FBI agents searched Mar-a-Lago that year looking for classified government documents that Trump, according to special counsel Jack Smith, had no business keeping after completing his presidency and leaving the White House in January 2021. Smith brought federal charges against Trump in 2023, but in July, Judge Aileen Cannon — the Trump appointee assigned to the...

Former President Donald Trump will sue the Department of Justice over its raid of his Mar-a-Lago estate for classified documents in 2022, calling it “clear intent to engage in political persecution.” Trump attorney Daniel Epstein filed the notice to sue the Justice Department, Fox News first reported. The department has 180 days to respond to the notice and come to a resolution. If there is no resolution, the case will head to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The filing says the “tortious acts against the...

Former President Trump is seeking $100 million in damages from the U.S. Justice Department over its handling of the classified documents search at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Fla.

The search occurred in August of 2022.

Trump's legal team reportedly described the search as "political persecution" and alleged that it was unconstitutional.

Former President Trump is reportedly planning to sue the federal government for $115 million over the 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago estate, accusing the Department of Justice of unconstitutional “political persecution.” Even though the search turned up hundreds of classified documents and led to his indictment on federal charges, Trump says prosecutors improperly targeted him in hopes of damaging his campaign to win back the White House. “What President Trump is doing here is not just standing up for himself — he is standing up for all Americans who believe...

The FBI’s stunning armed SWAT-style raid on President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home is coming back into the news, with plans by his lawyers for a $100 million lawsuit that charges that agency, under the administration of Joe Biden, attacked him with “clear intent to engage in political persecution.” The fact that it was a political move is almost without doubt, as the same bureaucracy had let Joe Biden off the hook for the same violation – reportedly keeping government papers, although there were differences. Trump, as president, had the authority...

Donald Trump’s legal team revealed Monday that the former president is looking for a $100 million payday from the federal government over one of his criminal indictments. A memo said Trump plans to sue the Department of Justice on allegations it practiced “political persecution” when it raided Mar-a-Lago and allegedly recovered classified documents he snuck out of the White House in 2021. Trump’s Florida case was dismissed in July, with Judge Aileen Cannon writing that she tossed the case because the feds’ appointment of special prosecutor Jack Smith was illegal....

Former President Donald Trump is fighting back against the August 2022 raid of his Mar-A-Lago estate, with a notice to the Justice Department that he plans to sue. “What President Trump is doing here is not just standing up for himself – he is standing up for all Americans who believe in the rule of law and believe that you should hold the government accountable when it wrongs you,” Trump attorney Daniel Epstein said, according to Fox News. Trump is suing for $100 million according to a notice of intent...

Former President Donald Trump is readying a $100 million lawsuit that accuses AG Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray of running a 'malicious prosecution' against him. The suit, which comes two years after the 2022 search that yielded a trove of 300 documents marked 'classified' from Trump's Florida club, comes after Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case brought by special counsel Jack Smith against Trump. The suit claims a 'clear intent to engage in political persecution' against the former president. The search, which occurred while Trump was away,...