Department of Justice Acknowledges FBI Agents Seized Passports From Trump: Email

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is admitting that FBI agents took passports from former President Donald Trump, according to an email made public by a spokesperson for Trump.

A screenshot of the missive, authored by DOJ national security official Jay Bratt, informed lawyers for Trump that agents โ€œseized three passports belonging to President Trump.โ€

The email, dated Aug. 15, said that the passports would be ready for pickup at 2 p.m. on Monday at the FBIโ€™s Washington Field Office.

The DOJ did not respond to a request for comment. It has not disputed the authenticity of the email.

An FBI spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email, โ€œIn executing search warrants, the FBI follows search and seizure procedures ordered by courts, then returns items that do not need to be retained for law enforcement purposes.โ€

Trump announced earlier in the day that the FBI took three of his passports in its Aug. 8 raid of his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

He called the seizure โ€œan assault on a political opponent at a level never seen before in our Country.โ€

Legal experts told The Epoch Times that the action was legally questionable.

โ€œPassports are generally taken if somebody is considered to be a flight risk,โ€ Jim Burling, vice president of legal affairs for the Pacific Legal Foundation, said.

In Trumpโ€™s case, โ€œweโ€™re not dealing with an ordinary citizen,โ€ Burling said. โ€œWeโ€™re dealing with a former president. I mean, do people seriously think heโ€™s going to try to go to Lebanon so he couldnโ€™t be extradited? Just to say that is to recognize the absurdity of it.โ€

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Norah Oโ€™Donnell, host of โ€œCBS Evening News,โ€ cited a DOJ official in reporting on Monday evening that the FBI did not have possession of the passports.

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