Trump to sue DOJ for $100M over Mar-a-Lago raid, alleg­ing ‘polit­i­cal per­se­cu­tion’

EXCLUSIVE: For­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump is set to sue the Jus­tice Depart­ment for $100 mil­lion in dam­ages over the government’s unprece­dent­ed 2022 raid on his Mar-a-Lago prop­er­ty in Palm Beach, Flori­da, with lawyers argu­ing it was done with “clear intent to engage in polit­i­cal persecution.“Fox News has obtained Trump’s memo claim­ing “tor­tious con­duct by the Unit­ed States against Pres­i­dent Trump.” Trump and his legal team intend to sue the Jus­tice Depart­ment for its con­duct dur­ing the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, 2022, amid the fed­er­al inves­ti­ga­tion into his alleged improp­er reten­tion of clas­si­fied records. JUDGE DISMISSES TRUMP’S FLORIDA CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS CASEAfter the raid, Spe­cial Coun­sel Jack Smith was appoint­ed to inves­ti­gate. Smith ulti­mate­ly brought 37 felony counts against Trump, includ­ing will­ful reten­tion of nation­al defense infor­mati …