# Special master
Democrats Continue to Rage Over Trump's Repeated Legal Victories | Opinion
In recent days, Former President Donald Trump has scored some key legal victories that Dems work hard to publicly downplay and discredit any way they can. It began a little over a week ago, when the New York AG announced, after much hoopla, that she would be seeking civil fraud lawsuits against several members of the Trump family for the alleged overinflation of property values used as collateral to secure larger loans.
Yet Another Trump Victory as a Federal Judge Dismisses DOJ Appeal and Appoints Special Master
The Department of Justice's appeal of their earlier loss to the former President was quickly and decisively dismissed on Thursday as the requested Special Master was appointed. On Thursday, a federal judge said she could not accept the Justice Department's claim that Donald Trump does not "have a possessory interest" in some documents that were seized from Mar-a-Lago just because they were, at one time, classified government records, without further review by a third party.
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Trump Wins Again as Judge Agrees Significant Harm Was Done in Raid - We Have the Full Written Decision
Florida judge agrees that the appointing of a special master to oversee documents taken from Mar-a-Lago is the correct course of action since obvious harm was done. A federal judge on Monday granted former President Donald Trump’s request to appoint a special master to review the trove of documents seized during the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago last month, saying some of the materials were medical or tax-related.