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 […]
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Upcoming Artemis 1 Launch a Step Towards Completing Trump’s Objective
By Katie Spence NASA’s Moon exploration dry spell is coming to an end on Aug. 29, as for the first time in almost 50 years, NASA is brushing off the Moon dust and going back to Earth’s nearest celestial body. Artemis 1 is unmanned, but it’s a big step toward getting astronauts back on the […]
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FBI Search Warrant Affidavit for Trump’s Home to Be Made Public: Judge
By Zachary Stieber The affidavit that convinced a judge to approve a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s home will be unsealed by Aug. 26 at noon, the judge said on Thursday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart said he reviewed redactions to the affidavit proposed by the government and found they were proper. “I find that the […]
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Lawsuit Seeks Removal of Judge Who Approved Warrant for FBI Trump Raid
By Jack Phillips Tea Party Patriots Action filed a federal complaint against the judge who approved the FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home. “Judge [Bruce] Reinhart has a conflict of interest and a pattern and history of hostility to President Trump,” said the filing (pdf). The lawsuit then listed several examples including purported Facebook posts […]
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Biden Administration Asked National Archives to Let FBI Access Boxes From Mar-a-Lago: Letter
By Zachary Stieber The Biden administration, months before the Mar-a-Lago raid, asked the federal agency in charge of keeping the nation’s records to let the FBI pore over documents from former President Donald Trump’s home, a newly disclosed letter shows. The White House Counsel’s Office sent the request to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in April, […]
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Trump Files Motion Seeking to Prevent DOJ Access to Mar-a-Lago Records Until ‘Special Master’ Appointed
By Eva Fu Former President Donald Trump on Aug. 22 filed a motion asking a federal judge to bar the Justice Department from reviewing documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago residence until a third-party watchdog can be appointed. In the first court motion from Trump’s legal team since the Aug. 8 FBI raid on his residence, the attorneys […]
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Parents Say They’ve Been Harassed, Stalked, and Doxed for Criticizing School Boards
By Brad Jones Parents from several states say they’ve been harassed online, stalked, doxed, and reported to their employers for criticizing school boards about what they see as a tectonic shift from reading, writing, and arithmetic to the promotion of radical political and social ideas, along with extreme COVID-19 polices in the last couple of […]
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Paul Pelosi-Linked Business Has Millions in PPP Loans Forgiven
By Jack Davis, The Western Journal The Paycheck Protection Program created to help small businesses survive the pandemic by doling out loans to help them retain employees has been a bonanza for companies linked to the rich and famous, according to new reports. The website ProPublica has amassed a searchable database of the loans, which media outlets […]
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Judge: Government Hasn’t Proven Trump Search Warrant Affidavit Should Remain Sealed
By Zachary Stieber U.S. government officials have not presented sufficient evidence to keep a key document related to the search warrant executed at former President Donald Trump’s home shielded from the public, a federal judge ruled on Aug. 22. U.S. officials have claimed that an affidavit, which convinced U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart to approve the warrant, needs extensive redactions […]
