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Trump’s attorneys say redacted Mar-a-Lago affidavit is ‘misleading’

Attorneys for former President Trump on Tuesday asked a federal judge to order the Justice Department to hand over an unredacted version of an affidavit used to justify the August search of his Mar-a-Lago estate.

In a legal filing made moments before Mr. Trump’s lawyers were set to argue the case in a different court, his legal team said they needed to check the affidavit for accuracy and “misleading omissions.”

“The supposedly ‘detailed’ inventory provided little in the way of actual information or detail. Instead, the ‘detailed’ inventory incorrectly labeled nearly every document seized as a ‘U.