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 […]
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Trump Lawyer Says Former President Unfazed by FBI Raid
By Jack Phillips A lawyer for former President Donald Trump said the ex-commander-in-chief is not fazed by the recent FBI raid on his Florida home. “He is a very resilient man who should run for president again … he’s got his faculties; he’s brilliant and he’s energized,” Trump lawyer Alina Habba told Newsmax on Saturday. “Every day I come in with some […]
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How the FBI Undercounts Armed Citizen Responders to Mass Killers—and Media Play Along
By John R. Lott Jr. and Real Clear Investigations The shooting that killed three people and injured another at a Greenwood, Indiana, mall on July 17 drew broad national attention because of how it ended—when 22-year-old Elisjsha Dicken, carrying a licensed handgun, fatally shot the attacker. While Dicken was praised for his courage and skill—squeezing off his […]
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DOJ Unseals Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant
By Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch The warrant that authorized the search of former President Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago was released today following our court filing seeking release of all FBI warrant materials. We’re pleased that our legal pressure forced the partial release of warrant materials about the Biden administration’s political raid on the home of former President […]
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Judge Unseals Mar-a-Lago Raid Warrant, Reveals Why FBI Is Investigating Trump
By Jack Phillips The seven-page warrant that authorized the FBI to search former President Donald Trump’s property earlier this week was unsealed Friday, and it shows that Trump is under federal investigation for obstruction of justice and other alleged violations. Trump is under investigation for alleged violations of 18 USC 2071—concealment, removal, or mutilation; 18 USC 793 of the […]
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Trump and Family Watched FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid
By Jack Phillips Former President Donald Trump and members of his family watched the FBI raid of his Mar-a-Lago property via security cameras, his lawyer Christina Bobb revealed Thursday. “I think the folks in New York—President Trump and his family—they probably had a better view than I did. Because they had the CCTV, they were able to […]
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FBI Assistant Director Says ‘Handful in Leadership’ Are Politicizing Bureau, Following Mar-a-Lago Raid
By Scott Wheeler News Analysis Years of investigations have led to claims by Republicans of partisan political power plays at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice. A raid on former President Donald Trump’s home on Aug. 8 has sharpened the nation’s focus on what many Republicans have been raising alarms about for […]
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Trump Responds to Nuclear Documents Reports, Says It’s a Continuation of Russia ‘Hoax’
By Jack Phillips Former President Donald Trump said reports that the FBI was allegedly searching for documents on nuclear weapons at his Mar-a-Lago residence is a “hoax” and likened it to years-long claims that he was a Russian agent. “Nuclear weapons issue is a Hoax, just like Russia, Russia, Russia was a Hoax, two Impeachments were a […]
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‘The Weaponization of Government Power Has Become Clear’: Ret. General Paul Vallely on Trump Raid
By Enrico Trigoso Retired Major General Paul Vallely reacted to the recent FBI raid on former president Donald Trump’s residence, claiming that there is a socialist-communist coalition involved with the act. He believes that there is a “socialist coalition” that aspires to “overthrow” the U.S. constitutional republic and transform it into a totalitarian communist state. “The American Republic […]
