When the Justice Department proposed redactions to the affidavit underlying the warrant used to search former President Donald J. Trump’s residence, prosecutors made clear that they feared the former president and his allies might take any opportunity to intimidate witnesses or otherwise illegally obstruct their investigation. “The government has well-founded concerns that steps may be […]
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Mar-a-Lago affidavit to be released today
he Justice Department must release a redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit by noon on Friday, a federal judge ruled. The affidavit lays out why investigators believe there was probable cause that crimes had been committed. The warrant authorized the FBI to search former President Donald Trump’s home and private club earlier this […]
Trump sues justice department over Mar-a-Lago raid
Former US President Donald Trump has asked a judge to freeze the justice department’s investigation of files seized from his Mar-a-Lago home. In a lawsuit, his legal team asked that an independent lawyer be appointed to oversee the documents that FBI agents took earlier this month. Eleven sets of classified files were taken from Mr […]
Judge Reinhart formally rejects DOJ argument to keep Trump affidavit sealed
Judge Bruce Reinhart on Monday admitted the FBI’s raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home was “unprecedented” and formally rejected the Justice Department’s argument to keep the affidavit leading to the search under seal, citing the “intense public and historical interest.” Reinhart, in a filing Monday morning, said he rejects “the Government’s argument that the […]
Trump vows ‘Fourth Amendment based’ challenge to Mar-a-Lago raid
Former President Trump’s legal counsel said on the Mark Levin Show that he’s preparing to file a Fourth Amendment-related legal challenge “very soon” against the Department of Justice in relation to the Mar-a-Lago raid. James Trusty, a former federal prosecutor, said that Trump’s legal team is going to “weigh in very strong and very hard,” […]
Will Trump Raid Affidavit Be Unsealed? Judge Decides Today
A federal magistrate in Florida is set to hold a hearing Thursday on whether to make public the probable cause affidavit used to justify the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. The hearing is in response to several media outlets asking the court to make the affidavit public to understand the reasoning […]
FBI sought Trump docs they feared he would ‘weaponize’
The FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago last Monday was specifically intended to recover Donald Trump’s personal “stash” of hidden documents, two high-level U.S. intelligence officials tell Newsweek. To justify the unprecedented raid on a former president’s residence and protect the source who revealed the existence of Trump’s private hoard, agents went into Trump’s residence on the […]
Liz Cheney Shellacked by Trump Candidate
Immediately following her loss to Harriet Hageman in Wyoming’s Republican primary, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., unveiled her next move, launching a new organization with the primary goal of keeping former President Trump from regaining the presidency. The group, called The Great Task, gets its name from a phrase in the Gettysburg Address, and Cheney invoked […]
Schiff says that Trump did not declassify seized docs
Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, head of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that he has not seen evidence that former President Donald Trump declassified documents that were found by the FBI during a search of his South Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago, last week. “We should determine, you know, whether there was any effort during the presidency […]
Fox News Host Accuses Trump Of Espionage
Fox News anchor Eric Shawn floated the possibility that former President Donald Trump may have tried to “sell” classified documents to Russia or Saudi Arabia. The FBI executed a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort residence on Monday in search of top secret and sensitive compartmentalized information, as well as other classified documents. The Washington […]
Trump Could Face 10 years for Espionage Act Violations
Former President Donald Trump has not been charged with any crime but speculation has mounted about the Department of Justice’s next moves after documents related to the search of his Florida home were unsealed on Friday. The warrant authorizing the search at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach revealed that the former president is under […]
Trump to Garland ‘Release the documents now’
After a federal judge gave the Justice Department a deadline to determine whether former President Trump supports or opposes unsealing the search warrant and property receipt used by the FBI to search his Mar-a-Lago home Monday, the former president said he heartily supports the move. “Release the documents now!” Trump wrote on TRUTH Social at […]