By Emily Jacobs, Weekend News Editor New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu called President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland “morons” for not responding to Republican outrage over the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Sununu, a Republican, made the comments after being asked in an interview on Fox News Sunday what he made of the fierce backlash from his party to the unprecedented FBI raid earlier […]
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Attempts to Prosecute Trump ‘Not Prudential’ and Will Backfire, Legal Experts Say
By Michael Washburn News Analysis The manifold legal moves undertaken against former President Donald Trump, including the FBI’s Aug. 8 raid on his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, the Jan. 6 hearings, and the investigation of his business dealings led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, break from long-established protocol about not prosecuting presidents after they […]
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Locals React to FBI Raid on Mar-a-Lago
By Jackson Elliott WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—George said he thinks former president Donald Trump got what he deserved with the Mar-a-Lago raid. But he also said the raid was politically motivated and that he doesn’t trust the FBI. “Even though I don’t like him, I think it’s all part of the same game from the other side, just […]
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New Document Confirms FBI Authored Request for Trump Search Warrant
By Zachary Stieber A document made public on Aug. 18 for the first time shows that an FBI agent authored the request for a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s resort in Florida. The document, an application for a warrant (pdf), was made by an FBI special agent. The document also shows that an agent, possibly the […]
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Judge Orders Government to Produce Redacted Version of Trump FBI Search Warrant Affidavit
By Jackson Elliott and Zachary Stieber WEST PALM BEACH, Florida—A U.S. judge on Aug. 18 ordered government officials to give him a redacted version of a key document that led to the approval of the search warrant FBI agents executed on former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart will review the proposed redactions and decide if they […]
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Media Companies to Attempt to Convince US Judge to Unseal Trump Search Warrant Affidavit
By Zachary Stieber Lawyers for media companies are set to appear before a federal judge in Florida on Aug. 18 to try to make the case that the main document underpinning the FBI search warrant that was executed at a residence of former President Donald Trump should be made public. Lawyers representing the Associated Press, CNN, the Miami Herald, […]
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Trump Attorney Confirms FBI Raided Melania Trump’s Closet, Couldn’t ‘Observe’ Them
By Jack Phillips Former President Donald Trump’s attorney, Christina Bobb, confirmed that FBI agents searched former First Lady Melania Trump’s closet during its raid of Mar-a-Lago last week. Bobb, who suggested that Melania wasn’t there, told Newsmax that she “wasn’t allowed to observe what they were doing or see really any part of the raid” when the agents […]
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Trump Calls for Immediate Release of Unredacted Affidavit Justifying FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Raid
By Katabella Roberts Former President Donald Trump has called for the immediate release of the unredacted affidavit that led to the approval of a search warrant at his Florida Mar-a-Lago home. Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, late in the evening on Aug. 15 where he said releasing the affidavit would be in […]
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President Trump Had Constitutional Authority to Declassify Anything He Wanted: Mike Davis
By Bill Pan and Paul Greaney The documents seized by the FBI from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort have already been declassified under the president’s “inherent constitutional power,” according to Mike Davis, a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. “President Trump has the constitutional authority to declassify anything he wants,” Davis said in an Aug. […]
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Biden Administration Urges Court to Keep Trump Search Affidavit Sealed
By Zachary Stieber President Joe Biden’s administration on Aug. 15 urged a federal court to keep the affidavit that led to the approval of a search warrant on former President Donald Trump’s resort shielded from the public. U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers said unsealing the affidavit would “irreparably harm the government’s ongoing criminal investigation.” “Even […]
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House Judiciary Republicans Tell Garland, Wray, Klain to Preserve Mar-a-Lago Raid Documents
By Mark Tapscott House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and 18 other Republican members of the panel instructed White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and FBI Director Christopher Wray “to preserve all documents, communications or other information” on the Aug. 9 Mar-a-Lago raid. The instruction came in separate Aug. 15 letters that spelled […]
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Republicans Call for Release of Affidavit That Justified FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid
By Rita Li Republicans are calling for the release of an FBI affidavit that lays out in detail the legal justification for the search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence. They want to know exactly what persuaded a federal judge to issue the search warrant, given that the affidavit of the Mar-a-Lago raid has yet to […]
