By Jack Phillips Attorney General Merrick Garland on Aug. 11 said he personally approved the FBI’s raid earlier this week of the personal Mar-a-Lago residence of former President Donald Trump. The FBI usually seeks approval from the top before conducting a raid on a political target. Garland’s confirmation was the first public statement from the Department of Justice […]
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Judge Orders Department of Justice to Respond to Requests to Unseal FBI’s Trump Warrant
By Jack Phillips The Justice Department has to respond to motions to unseal a warrant that triggered the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, according to a magistrate judge who reportedly approved the search. Judicial Watch and the Albany Times Union newspaper filed a motion to unseal the document earlier this week, which was granted by a judge […]
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Judicial Watch Urges Court to Unseal Materials on FBI Raid of Trump’s Home
By Naveen Athrappully A nonprofit on Aug. 9 filed a motion in federal court to unseal documents related to the search warrant executed this week at the Florida home of former President Donald Trump. The nonprofit Judicial Watch, in a motion filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, said that the court should unseal the […]
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Grassley Expresses Concerns to FBI Director After Mar-a-Lago Raid
By Mimi Nguyen Ly Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said he spoke with FBI Director Christopher Wray expressing his concerns over the agency’s conduct a day after former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, was raided. “Less than a week ago, I expressed serious concern that what little remains of the FBI’s credibility […]
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‘Seems Political’: Andrew Cuomo, Andrew Yang React to FBI Raid on Trump’s Home
By Gary Bai Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo questioned the Department of Justice for authorizing the FBI to raid former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property. Yang and Cuomo’s Tuesday statements became the few voices from non-Republicans who questioned the nature of the raid as being political. “I’m no Trump fan. I want him […]
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‘Biden Knew All About This,’ Trump Says After Mar-a-Lago Home Raided by FBI
By Frank Fang Former President Donald Trump has criticized President Joe Biden, claiming that the administration had prior knowledge of the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago resort on Monday. “Biden knew all about this, just like he knew all about Hunter’s ‘deals,’” Trump wrote on Tuesday in a post via his Truth Social platform. Hunter Biden, who is currently under […]
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McConnell Says ‘Country Deserves Thorough and Immediate Explanation’ About Trump Residence Search
By Hannah Ng Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has called for a “thorough and immediate explanation” in the wake of the FBI’s search at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. “Attorney General Garland and the Department of Justice should already have provided answers to the American people and must do so immediately,” he said in a statement. […]
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Trump Releases Dramatic Political Video After FBI Raids Mar-a-Lago
By Caden Pearson Former President Donald Trump released a dramatic political video, hours after the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, in which he laments the “declining” state of America and says it’s “time to start talking about greatness for our country again.” “We are a nation in decline … We are a nation that in many ways […]
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FBI Agents Were Looking for Classified Records, Took Boxes of Documents From Trump Resort: Lawyer
By Zachary Stieber and Roman Balmakov The FBI agents who raided former President Donald Trump’s Florida resort were looking for certain records, according to a lawyer for Trump who was on the scene while agents were at the resort. “They’re looking for presidential records, what they deemed to be presidential records, and anything that could potentially be classified,” Christina Bobb, the […]
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After Raid, Trump Determined to ‘Straighten This Country Out’: Graham
By Zachary Stieber Former President Donald Trump is determined to fix the United States after his residence was raided by the FBI, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Aug. 9. “President Trump is determined, now more than ever, to straighten this country out,” Graham, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters at a press conference in […]
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Vought Laying Groundwork for Next GOP President to Neutralize Federal Swamp’s Bureaucracy
By Mark Tapscott Russ Vought, President Donald Trump’s former Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director, had a plan, but too little time left in 2020 to restore the bureaucracy as a neutral tool for ensuring that federal officials do what American voters want done by their government. But Vought will be ready from the get-go when, he […]
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Republicans Warn Biden’s ‘Army of IRS Agents’ Is Coming
By Frank Fang Republicans are warning American middle-class families and small-business owners how they will soon be the targets of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), once President Joe Biden signs into law Democrat-backed legislation that includes funding to hire 87,000 new tax agents. The legislation, known as the “Inflation Reduction Act,” was approved by a party-line vote of 51 […]
