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Judge Orders DOJ To Respond To Requests To Unseal FBI’s Trump Warrant
Epoch Times ^ | 08/10/2022 | Jack Phillips

Posted on 08/10/2022 10:01:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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 in the case.

“On or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on August 15, 2022, the Government shall file a Response to the Motion to Unseal,” wrote Judge Bruce Reinhart on Wednesday afternoon, referring to the Department of Justice.

“The response may be filed ex parte and under seal as necessary to avoid disclosing matters already under seal. In that event, the Government shall file a redacted Response in the public record. If it chooses, the Government may file a consolidated Response to all Motions to Seal,” he wrote.

Neither the FBI nor Justice Department has issued public comments about the raid, which was first confirmed by Trump on Monday evening.

The FBI declined to comment when contacted by The Epoch Times, and the Justice Department has not responded to several requests for comment.

As for the White House, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Joe Biden was not aware of the raid before Trump’s announcement. Her claim was refuted by Trump on his social media platform, Truth Social.

“What I can tell you definitively and for sure, he was not aware of this,” Jean-Pierre said of Biden. “Nobody at the White House was. Nobody was given a heads up and we did not know about what happened yesterday.”

Requests

On Wednesday, the Times Union’s managing editor, Brendan J. Lyons, wrote to Reinhart to ask for the warrant to be unsealed.

“Given that the search warrant(s) have been executed, and the target of that search has full knowledge of what occurred, there is no impediment to any ongoing investigation from the disclosure of the search warrant order or the returns. As such, these records should be unsealed,” the letter to the Florida judge reads.

Judicial Watch asked for the warrant as part of an investigation into “the potential politicization of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice and whether the FBI and the Justice Department are abusing their law enforcement powers to harass a likely future political opponent of President [Joe] Biden.”

“If the Court were to unseal the materials, Judicial Watch would obtain the materials, analyze them, and make them available to the public,” the letter said. “Unsealing the records therefore would further Judicial Watch’s mission of educating the public.”

It comes as Eric Trump, a son of the former president, told the Daily Mail that a Trump attorney at Mar-a-Lago, Christina Bobb, asked FBI agents Monday about seeing a warrant.

“They would not give her the search warrant,” he told the outlet, referring to Bobb. “So they showed it to her from about 10 feet away. They would not give her a copy of the search warrant.”

Top Republicans, meanwhile, demanded an investigation into the raid and argued that it was politically motivated to wound the GOP ahead of the 2022 midterms. Some have said the Justice Department immediately needs to release documents pertaining to the raid.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: creepstate; deepstate; doj; fbi; policestate; raid; singlepartystate; warrant
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1 posted on 08/10/2022 10:01:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

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2 posted on 08/10/2022 10:07:12 PM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: SeekAndFind

As far as FJB’s press secretary goes that He didn’t know about the raid. She maybe right. I doubt he knows he crapped his pants on a good day. They tell him “Joe you sh1t yourself”. He says ok, hey we got any hair I can sniff? Folks our country is in trouble.


3 posted on 08/10/2022 10:11:23 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: SeekAndFind

Why in the hell is this DOJ suspending the due process rights of anyone, let alone a former POTUS? This is raw, in your face lawlessness by a Biden Regime that appears to be going rogue. Unfettered by the rule of law or any semblance of ethics. They must really think they can force us to live under their rule after they steal the next couple elections.


4 posted on 08/10/2022 10:11:36 PM PDT by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: SeekAndFind
F091-BD47-5925-4867-AFF2-95-AD02184-C87


WRAY LIES. THE MEMO WAS ENTIRELY ACCURATE




5 posted on 08/10/2022 10:14:51 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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To: Bullish
"Going rogue"

To me, this signals that the ByeDone cabal has NO intention of ceding power in 2024. Whether elected or not in 2024, they have NO intention of leaving. They CAN'T.

AFTER the midterms which they will ALSO try and STEAL, things are going to get worse. Much worse. I pray for Trump because the FIB will probably try and take him out. The raid was a baby-step towards that goal.

6 posted on 08/10/2022 10:34:57 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Equine1952
Peter Doocy asked KJP "Is the Biden administration weaponizing the DOJ and FBI against their political opponents? (yes or no)"

KJP did NOT and could NOT answer "NO"!!!!! This was chilling.

7 posted on 08/10/2022 10:40:20 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The response will be “no”.


8 posted on 08/10/2022 10:42:51 PM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Why state the obvious. We’d have to be idiots to not know what’s going on. The left accuses you of what they’re doing. Pretty simple really.


9 posted on 08/10/2022 10:56:57 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: Bullish
Why in the hell is this DOJ suspending the due process rights of anyone, let alone a former POTUS?

Because they are communists, and think they can do anything.

10 posted on 08/10/2022 11:01:31 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: SeekAndFind

there should have been a Battle of Mara Largo


11 posted on 08/10/2022 11:08:51 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Husker24
The response will be “no”.

Yes they will, or they will redact the whole thing. No one is going to see anything, and they will defy anyone to do something about it.

12 posted on 08/10/2022 11:29:19 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: SeekAndFind

Now I understand why the Democrats are doubling down on these failed policies and do not seem to care about inflation, high gas prices and polling.

They intend to charge the entire GOP with insurrection. The false elector scheme (which has been done before) will be painted as a grand conspiracy by the entire GOP under the leadership of Trump to overturn the 2020 election.

This is the October surprise.


13 posted on 08/10/2022 11:53:55 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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To: Erik Latranyi

I believe Trump has evidence that the January 6th Capital protest was turned into mass chaos by FBI operatives who inflamed the situation and goaded Trump supporters into invading the Capital building!


14 posted on 08/11/2022 12:52:02 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

“there should have been a Battle of Mara Largo”

Complete with a Bowie knife.


15 posted on 08/11/2022 1:30:06 AM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: SeekAndFind
Wokestapo, rhymes with Gestapo.


16 posted on 08/11/2022 2:04:17 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Equine1952

Folks our country is in trouble. Bidung says the smartest person he knows is his crackhead son, known for measuring his penis.

Biding went on vacay......again.... joined on Air Force One by his parasite son, crackhead Hunter Biden, his freeloading wife Melissa Cohen and son Beau.......that’s what Mr BiG admits to.

We need to see the Vouchers BIDUNG submitted......he never does anything unless the Biden parasites profit.

Notice?......no pics.......the sight of the bidung Crime family scrounging off the backs of struggling Americans is nauseating.


17 posted on 08/11/2022 2:44:48 AM PDT by Liz (MAN PROPOSES....GOD DISPOSES.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Good. Public exposure is very good.


18 posted on 08/11/2022 2:49:37 AM PDT by Robert357
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To: Equine1952
The left accuses you of what they’re doing. Pretty simple really.

Yes, they are pieces of 💩💩💩

19 posted on 08/11/2022 3:10:15 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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Watch what every Republican is saying about this including the GOP leadership in the Senate.


20 posted on 08/11/2022 3:22:47 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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