Donald Trump Lawyer Fumes at FBI Searching Barron's Peloton Room

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the Road to Majority conference in Washington, on June 22. His team is arguing that the warrant the FBI used to search his Mar-a-Lago home in 2022 was too "broad."

Donald Trump's lawyer in his classified documents case was "indignant" about the FBI searching the room that his son Barron's Peloton was in, according to reports.

During a hearing in Fort Pierce, Florida, the former U.S. president's legal team argued that the 2022 raid of his Mar-a-Lago residence was "unnecessary", "overly broad" and in violation of Trump's Fourth Amendment rights.

Legal contributor and correspondent for MSNBC Katie Phang, who was covering the case this week, posted on X: "An are-you-kidding-me moment in today's MAL classified docs hearing: Emil Bove, the lawyer for Trump, indignantly exclaims to Judge Cannon that while executing the search warrant on Mar-a-Lago, FBI agents searched the room where Barron Trump's Peloton is located."

Other media reports, including the Courthouse News Service, mentioned this comment in the context of Bove arguing that the allegedly "broad" nature of the warrant resulted in FBI agents searching Melania's and Barron's rooms, as well as the exercise room.

He said on Monday: "This was an enormous piece of property, we're not talking about the search of a single-family home or of an apartment.

"The government has to establish probable cause to search the areas that they've established in [the warrant]."

Prosecutor David Harbach insisted that agents "didn't go everywhere" on the property, only to places the warrant allowed.

He argued that Melania's and Barron's bedrooms were included in the warrant because Trump had direct access to these rooms.

"There was some evidence that these boxes moved," he said. "It would have been irresponsible for them not to search there."

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump-appointed judge, didn't seem convinced of his team's argument.

She said she believed the warrant had been "particular enough" and asked his lawyers: "You'd agree that paperwork is the kind of thing that can be discovered anywhere?"

Trump is accused of trying to interfere with federal efforts to collect classified documents after he lost the 2020 election.

He has been charged with 32 counts of willful retention of national defense information under the Espionage Act, seven obstruction counts and one count for making false statements. He denies all of the charges and insists he is innocent.

The court session, which began on Friday, also saw Trump's team argue that special counsel Jack Smith, who indicted Trump last year, is being unlawfully funded.

Judge Cannon heard the prosecution's request to issue a gag order that would stop Trump from speaking out against agents.

She hasn't ruled on either of these motions yet and has postponed the trial date indefinitely.

Newsweek contacted Bove via his work email address outside of normal working hours for any further comment.

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