MAJOR UPDATE: Trump Fights Back with Lawsuit
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Jay Sekulow
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🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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President Donald Trump is suing the Biden-Harris Department of Justice for $100 million over claims that the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago (prompted by Special Counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case) was "political persecution." How will Trump's lawsuit affect the 2024 presidential election? The Sekulow team discusses Trump's lawsuit, the latest polls between Vice President Kamala Harris and President Trump, the crisis as the southern border, the ACLJ's legal work – and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | You got a big update Trump fights back with a major lawsuit against the DOJ |
| 0:05.6 | Keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever this is secular |
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| 0:26.0 | This is Logan Secular. |
| 0:27.0 | Joining the studio with executive producer Will Haynes. |
| 0:29.0 | We're going to have a great show today. |
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| 0:36.7 | as people start to tune in people start to watch we want to bring up sort of the |
| 0:40.4 | breaking news that came out which is again yes there's Trump lawsuit, but maybe not in the way you're thinking. |
| 0:45.0 | Because maybe the shoe is on the other foot, if you will, will? |
| 0:49.0 | That's right. |
| 0:50.0 | So this morning, or over the weekend the president's attorneys informed the |
| 0:54.8 | Department of Justice of his intent to sue for a hundred million dollars in |
| 0:59.1 | damages over the execution of the search warrant at Maralago back in 2022. |
| 1:05.0 | So this is an administrative tort claim against the DOJ. |
| 1:08.0 | It argues that Attorney General Garland and Director Ray applied quote |
| 1:12.7 | inconsistent standards and were guilty of quote clear |
| 1:16.3 | dereliction of constitutional principles. |
| 1:19.1 | This is the case that Judge Cannon dismissed just weeks ago on the grounds that the special counsel was not constitutionally |
| 1:27.9 | appropriate in that role and was not appointed under the Constitution. |
| 1:33.0 | And so what we have now is the president going on the offensive seeking |
| 1:38.0 | a hundred million dollars in damages. |
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