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 […]
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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 […]
