Trump's team says they need a special master so they can find the evidence they need to move for the return of his personal property. As convoluted and backwards as that is, what's worse is why they really want a special master, something made clearer today. 1/THREAD

As @MarcACaputo reported, they not only want the special master to review every page the FBI seized, but they also want the special master to give *them* access to all of it too, including an unredacted search warrant affidavit. 2/

To give a prospective defendant a peek at each and every page seized lawfully by the FBI plus the underlying search warrant affidavit -- which contains grand jury information and evidence obtained from *multiple* witnesses -- is bonkers. 3/

And it means that Trump's real strategy is not, as I and others thought, just about delay. If he gets his way on the scope of the special master review and his team's role in it, he'll be able to compromise the investigation long before it could become a prosecution.