Donald Trump

The Justice Department and former President Donald Trump’s lawyers have submitted their respective nominees to serve as the special master reviewing materials seized from Mar-a-Lago

And vastly different proposals for how the process should work.

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Friday night’s joint court filing also stressed the wide gap between the DOJ and Trump

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as the two sides disagreed over how long the special master investigation would last, what he or she would consider, and who foots the bill.

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It’s the latest legal turn in the Justice Department’s historic criminal investigation into Trump’s potential mishandling of documents as his term ended in January 2021.

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The FBI executed a search warrant last month at the former president’s Florida home and resort, seizing 11,000 document

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Including more than 100 classified government records.

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US District Judge Aileen Cannon earlier this week granted Trump’s request for a special master – a third-party attorney outside of the government

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The Justice Department nominated two retired federal judges – Thomas Griffith and Barbara Jones – to serve as special master.

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