DONALD J. TRUMP, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA 

CASE NO. 22-CV-81294-AMC 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Defendant. 

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NOTICE OF RECEIPT OF PRELIMINARY ORDER 

AND ATTORNEY APPEARANCE 

The United States notifies the Court of the following in response to its Preliminary 

Order on Motion for Judicial Oversight and Additional Relief ("Preliminary Order"), Docket 

Entry (D.E.) 29: 

1. The United States acknowledges receipt of this Court's August 27, 2022 Preliminary 

Order, D.E. 29. 

2. The undersigned, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and 

Jay I. Bratt, Chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section of the 

National Security Division of the United States Department of Justice, are appearing 

on behalf of the United States in this case. 

3. As directed by the Court's Preliminary Order, the United States will file a public 

response to Plaintiff's August 22, 2022 Motion for Judicial Oversight and Additional 

Relief and August 26, 2022 Supplemental Filing in Support of Motion for Judicial 

Oversight and Additional Relief, D.E. 1 & D.E. 28. 

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4. The government also will review the materials obtained pursuant to the search warrant 

and coordinate with the Case Team and Privilege Review Team 1 to submit, as directed 

by the Preliminary Order, a sealed supplemental filing containing a "more detailed 

Receipt for Property" seized pursuant to the search warrant approved on August 5, 

2022 (S.D. Fla. Case No. 22-MJ-8332-BER), and executed on August 8, 2022; as well 

as a "particularized notice indicating the status of [the United States'] review of the 

seized property, including any filter review conducted by the privilege review team 

and any dissemination of materials beyond the privilege review team," D.E. 29 at 2. 

5. Although the government will provide the Court more detail in its forthcoming 

supplemental filing, the government notes that, before the Court issued its Preliminary 

Order, and in accordance with the judicially authorized search warrant's provisions, 

the Privilege Review Team (as described in paragraphs 81-84 of the search warrant 

affidavit) identified a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client 

privileged information, completed its review of those materials, and is in the process 

of following the procedures set forth in paragraph 84 of the search warrant affidavit to 

address potential privilege disputes, if any. Additionally, the Department of Justice 

and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence ("ODNI") are currently 

facilitating a classification review of materials recovered pursuant to the search. As the 

Director of National Intelligence advised Congress, ODNI is also leading an 

1 The redacted version of the search warrant affidavit, made public on August 26, 2022, is 

available at D.E. 102-1 of Case No. 22-MJ-8332-BER. As laid out in pages 31 and 32 of the 

affidavit, the search was executed both by law enforcement personnel conducting the 

investigation (the "Case Team") and personnel not participating in the investigation, who 

were available to initiate a filter process to protect potentially attorney-client privileged 

information (the "Privilege Review Team"). D.E. 102-1 at ,i 81. 

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intelligence community assessment of the potential risk to national security that would 

result from the disclosure of these materials. 

Date: August 29, 2022 Respectfully submitted, 

Is Juan Antonio Gonzalez 

JUAN ANTONIO GONZALEZ 

UNITED STATES ATTORNEY 

Florida Bar No. 897388 

99 NE 4th Street, 8th Floor 

Miami, Fl 33132 

Tel: 305-961-9001 

Email: juan.antonio .gonzalez@usdoj.gov 

Is Jay I Bratt 

JAYI. BRATT 

CHIEF 

Counterintelligence and Export Control 

Section 

National Security Division 

950 Pennsylvania A venue, NW 

Washington, D.C. 20530 

Illinois Bar No. 6187361 

Tel: 202-233-0986 

Email: jay.bratt2@usdoj.gov 

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