By Hannah Ng The Mar-a-Lago raid undermines U.S. credibility in international politics and can be exploited by China, according to Bradley A. Thayer, the director of China policy at the Center for Security Policy. Thayer called the FBI raid of former President Trump’s Florida resort a violation of American political culture and principles, saying such […]
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Border Patrol Chief Says ‘No Consequences’ Are Driving Border Crisis
By Charlotte Cuthbertson Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz said the U.S. border is in crisis, largely because of a lack of consequences being applied to most illegal aliens. “In my experience, we have seen increases when there are no consequences,” Ortiz said on July 28 during a deposition for a lawsuit against the federal government by Florida […]
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Law Professor Says DOJ Photo of ‘TOP SECRET’ Mar-a-Lago Documents Could Be ‘Misleading’
By Jack Phillips Constitutional lawyer Jonathan Turley wrote that a newly disclosed FBI photo taken at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago could leave a “misleading impression.” The image appears to show six documents labeled “top secret” and others dubbed “secret,” apparently captured inside Trump’s Florida residence during the FBI raid in early August. It was included toward the bottom […]
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U.S. Justice Dept says Trump team may have moved classified papers amid probe
By Sarah N. Lynch and Dan Whitcomb WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said it had evidence that classified documents were deliberately concealed from the FBI when it tried to retrieve them in June from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, prompting its unprecedented search of his home. In a 54-page filing, […]
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DOJ Says FBI Agents Took Potentially ‘Privileged’ Materials in Trump Raid
By Jack Phillips Officials have completed their examination of documents that were taken during a raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and that possible “attorney-client privileged information” was seized by FBI agents, said the Department of Justice in a Monday filing. The Department of Justice filed a response on Monday morning in response to a motion […]
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Lindsey Graham Warns There Will Be ‘Riots’ If Trump Is Prosecuted
By Jack Phillips Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned there may be “riots in the streets” if former President Donald Trump is prosecuted amid an investigation into allegedly classified documents that were taken by FBI agents at his home earlier this month. “If there’s a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information, after the [Hillary] Clinton debacle … there’ll […]
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Ex-FBI Intelligence Chief Says DOJ Has ‘No Case’ Against Trump
By Jack Phillips A former assistant director in the FBI said he believes the affidavit used to obtain a search warrant of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago reveals the government has “no case” against him. “We now know why the DOJ wanted the affidavit—which is supposed to articulate the probable cause needed for a legitimate search—to be kept […]
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Trump: FBI Raid ‘Political’ Interference Ahead of 2022 Elections
By Jack Phillips Former President Donald Trump accused the FBI and Department of Justice of engaging in political interference ahead of the 2022 midterm elections and possibly even the 2024 presidential contest. In a statement released Saturday night on Truth Social, the former president wrote that the Aug. 8 raid of his Mar-a-Lago property was “done for political purposes just prior […]
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Judge Signals Intent to Back Trump’s Request for Mar-a-Lago Special Master
By Eva Fu and Roman Balmakov A federal judge on Aug. 27 announced a preliminary intent to appoint a neutral third party to review documents the FBI seized in a raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, citing “exceptional circumstances.” The order was a response to a request from Trump’s legal team filed days earlier, seeking […]
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Former Director of National Intelligence: Nothing in Affidavit Supported ‘Extreme’ FBI Trump Raid
By Zachary Stieber No portions of the redacted search warrant affidavit supported the Biden administration taking the unprecedented step of raiding a former president’s home, a former top intelligence official says. “I think it provided a general recitation of the fact that the FBI and the Department of Justice believed that there were classified documents […]
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Trump: Affidavit Shows Search Warrant Never Should Have Been Approved
By Zachary Stieber The newly released affidavit that prompted a judge to approve a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida shows the warrant should not have been approved, Trump said on Aug. 26. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who signed off on the warrant, “should NEVER have allowed the Break-In of my home,” Trump […]
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Search Warrant Affidavit for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Home Released
By Zachary Stieber The document that convinced a judge to approve a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida was made public on Aug. 26 in a heavily redacted form. Government officials filed a copy of the search warrant affidavit, authored by an FBI agent, on orders from U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart. The judge approved […]
