Former President Donald Trump chastised the FBI Sunday morning for seizing “‘executive’ privileged material” in its raid of the Mar-a-Lago resort, and subsequently demanded the agency return his materials as soon as possible.

In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote, “Oh great! It has just been learned that the FBI, in its now famous raid of Mar-a-Lago, took boxes of privileged ‘attorney-client’ material, and also ‘executive’ privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken.”

Trump continued, “By copy of this TRUTH, I respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which they were taken. Thank you!”

Various reports have speculated on the items removed from Mar-a-Lago last Monday — or three days after the FBI/Department of Justice obtained a search warrant (signed by magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart) — outside of the 11 sets of potentially classified materials.

The Florida raid also came at a time when President Trump was knowingly out-of-town (New York City).

The unsealed search warrant, which became public fodder Friday night, revealed agents were authorized to seize any documents or records with classified markings or related to the “transmission of national defense information or classified material.” … (Excerpt from Newsmax)

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