Mar- A Lago raided FBI Warrants

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House Judiciary GOP seeks White House, DOJ and FBI documents on Mar-a-Lago search

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are asking the White House, the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the FBI to preserve and produce documents relating to the decision to execute a search warrant at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence last week.
In the Monday letters sent to White House chief of staff Ron Klain, Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, the committee’s Republicans suggest that the search, which recovered classified information, was politically motivated.




“The FBI’s unprecedented raid of President Trump’s residence is a shocking escalation of the Biden Administration’s weaponization of law-enforcement resources against its political opponents,” read the letters led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), ranking member on the committee. “We will settle for nothing but your complete cooperation with our inquiry.”

The Republicans seek communications “referring or relating” to the decision to execute and seek the search warrant.
They ask for any communications among the DOJ, FBI and Executive Office of the President about the search, as well as for any of the communication between the three entities and the National Archives and Records Administration about the warrant.

Unsealed court records relating to the raid reveal that Trump was suspected of violating portions of the Espionage Act and laws relating to destruction or concealing of documents, and the theft or destruction of government documents. Investigators listed top secret documents as among the 33 items of material recovered from the search.

Republicans have argued that the DOJ had several other options to try to retrieve the documents, and they have repeatedly raised suspicions that President Biden is “weaponizing” the DOJ against a likely future political opponent.

The administration has said that Biden was not briefed about the raid before it happened and that no one at the White House was given a “heads up” about it.

Garland said last week that he personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago.
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee also asked for documents or communications referring to use of confidential human sources in connection to the raid. An affidavit used to justify the search remains sealed to the public.

The Republicans gave an Aug. 29 deadline to produce the material.

GOP members on other committees are also seeking information related to the raid.
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have asked the DOJ to give the committee, but not necessarily the public, information regarding the affidavit used to justify the search. House Oversight and Reform Committee Republicans have sent a letter to the National Archives asking about its role in the FBI’s search.
 

Budzbuddha

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Rudy the Gollum on Newsmax about Raid …… STFU RUDY , you got your own problems.

  • Rudy Giuliani told Newsmax about Trump's reaction to the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago.
  • Giuliani said Trump bragged about the size of the crowd of his supporters outside his home.
  • Trump's obsession with crowd sizes started in the early days of his presidency.
Rudy Giuliani said former President Donald Trump's first reaction to the FBI's search of his Florida property at Mar-a-Lago was to comment on the size of the crowd of his supporters that had gathered outside in the aftermath.

Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and onetime personal lawyer to the ex-president, told Newsmax during an interview that Trump said the raid was "going to help me."


"You see the number of people in front of Mar-a-Lago already? This is going to turn around. The American people have common sense. They've gone too far now," Giuliani recalled Trump telling him.

Trump's affinity for crowd sizes dates to the earliest days of his presidency, when his administration made false claims about the size of the crowd at his inauguration.

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HGCC

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Breaking

CNN —
The Justice Department is opposing the release of details in an affidavit that lays out the argument that investigators made to a federal magistrate judge explaining the probable cause it had to search former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last week.

In their new filing arguing for some continued secrecy, the Justice Department made clear the seriousness of the ongoing criminal investigation, saying it “implicates highly classified materials.”

“Disclosure of the government’s affidavit at this stage would also likely chill future cooperation by witnesses whose assistance may be sought as this investigation progresses, as well as in other high-profile investigations,” the Justice Department wrote. “The fact that this investigation implicates highly classified materials further underscores the need to protect the integrity of the investigation and exacerbates the potential harm if information is disclosed to the public prematurely or improperly.”

Media organizations including CNN had asked for the affidavit to be unsealed after the search last week at Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, club and residence.

The Justice Department said in its filing that disclosing the affidavit details “at this juncture” would “cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation.”

“The redactions necessary to mitigate harms to the integrity of the investigation would be so extensive as to render the remaining unsealed text devoid of meaningful content, and the release of such a redacted version would not serve any public interest,” the Justice Department stated.
Man that's a tough one. I think they are wrong on that front, every single thing needs to be way out in the open to give as much legitimacy, despite it not being accepted, as possible.

This civil war I have been promised is going to fizzle hard if the public discourse goes at all like it should. The DOJ backing up like that doesn't get us there and looks shady, real or not.
 

cannabineer

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Man that's a tough one. I think they are wrong on that front, every single thing needs to be way out in the open to give as much legitimacy, despite it not being accepted, as possible.

This civil war I have been promised is going to fizzle hard if the public discourse goes at all like it should. The DOJ backing up like that doesn't get us there and looks shady, real or not.
I will disagree. There are national security considerations, which (that man) the transparency mandate imo.
 

cannabineer

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On June 8, at least 37 companies tied to Donald Trump and his family changed to a new registered agent, according to Florida business records. It happened around the time - if not the same day - the feds instructed Trump to lock up classified docs at Mar-a-Lago.
Is this related to his having to go to Tony the Hatchet for a favor?

 
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