Trump wants a neutral overview of documents seized by FBI

Lawyers for former US president Donald Trump have asked a federal judge to prevent the FBI from continuing to review documents recovered from his Florida estate earlier this month until a neutral special master can be appointed to inspect the records.

The request was included in a court filing, two weeks since the search, that takes broad aim at the FBI investigation into the discovery of classified records at Mar-a-Lago.

Trump’s advisers describe the raid, in which the FBI said it recovered 11 sets of classified documents, as a “shockingly aggressive move” and insist that he had been “fully co-operative” for weeks as federal agents scrutinised the presence of presidential records at Mar-a-Lago.