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Is anyone else thinking this could spectacularly blow up in Trump's face? Given the credentials of the appointed Special Master, Raymond Dearie, the chance exists that, upon reviewing a few of the top secret documents, he realises just how vital it is to continue investigations into Trump's theft of them, and roundly turns on Trump, his lawyers and the judge who appointed him. That said, regardless of how Dearie works, and how brilliantly he may go about it, it doesn't really matter how brilliant the surgeon who amputated your leg was if you didn't actually need your leg amputated. In one of the best summations of what is currently happening, Lawrence O'Donnell also points out that the judges order (which is based on her doubting that the documents - retrieved from Mar-a-Lago under a search warrant, and identified by the FBI and DOJ as being classified - are really classified), specifically allows Trump's lawyers to examine them along with the Special Master. Needless to say, they have no security clearance what so ever. This whole situation - the retrieval of top secret documents from a privately owned residence, which also happens to be open to the public, and the investigation into who had access to them - is moving further and further towards the farcical, while exposing just how idiotic it is to appoint federal judges based on their politics. While it is unlikely that anyone considered the scenario where a judge must make a ruling on a defendant who appointed her to her position, one would hope that a review of the procedure for appointing judges is conducted following this investigation and, at the very least, that judge is automatically recused from such a case.