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FBI Seized Trump’s Papers for ‘Safety’

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Justice Department officials urged a federal judge to keep under wraps the search warrant used in the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, fearing he would destroy evidence, according to court documents unsealed Thursday.

In a motion filed three days before more than 30 armed agents stormed Mr. Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, residence, the Justice Department said a public search warrant “poses a risk to [the] safety” of the materials sought in the investigation.

“The United States believes there is good cause [to keep the warrant sealed] because the integrity of the investigation might be compromised and evidence might be destroyed,” wrote Juan Antonio Gonzalez, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida.

The petition to keep the search warrant sealed was one of three documents ordered to be made public by U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart.

Also on Thursday, Judge Reinhart ordered the Justice Department to unseal at least a portion of the probable cause document, the filing that was used to obtain the search warrant. (Read more from “FBI Seized Trump’s Papers for ‘Safety’” HERE)

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These House Republicans Voted to Impeach Trump — Here’s What Happened to Them

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Of the ten House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump, only two have survived their primaries to make it to the general election in November, each of them in states that use a top-two primary system.

Reps. David Valadao of California and Dan Newhouse of Washington advanced into the general election, running in two of the four states that use a top-two primary. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowsi of Alaska, who voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial, advanced alongside Republican challenger Kelly Tshibaka, who campaigned with Trump, in a top-four ranked choice primary.

Republican Reps. Fred Upton of Michigan, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, John Katko of New York and Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio all opted not to run at all this year. Peter Meijer of Michigan, Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington, Tom Rice of South Carolina and Liz Cheney of Wyoming all lost their primaries to a Trump-endorsed opponent.

Valadao likely benefited from being the only impeachment supporter not facing a Trump-backed challenger, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. As a result of the primary containing two Trump supporters, voters who support the former president were split between two candidates, leading Valadao to edge out Chris Mathys by just 1,310 votes, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Newhouse also faced off against a pair of high-profile Trump supporters: Trump-endorsed Loren Culp and Navy veteran and retired NASCAR driver Jerrod Sessler, The New York Times reported. Newhouse, who narrowly came out on top of the crowded field ahead of Democratic businessman Dough White, raised $1.6 million, while Sessler had raised $508,900 and Culp just $310,700, the NYT reported. (Read more from “These House Republicans Voted to Impeach Trump — Here’s What Happened to Them” HERE)

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Legal Experts Say FBI Raid Won’t Keep Trump Off the Ballot

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Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to bring former President Trump down. What they don’t realize is that Trump will fight back just as hard.

In the past few years, the left has tried to beat Trump down by blaming him for Covid-19, making the Jan. 6 riots out to be “worse” than 9/11, and now with the FBI’s raid on his Mar-a-Lago residence.

Legal experts are weighing in on Trump’s case, claiming that the attempts to prosecute the former president will “backfire.”

“As a legal matter, none of these various investigations will keep Trump off the ballot. I don’t see it as possible that Trump will be disqualified. The only thing that can keep Trump out of the White House will be the voters,” professor at South Texas College of Law Houston Josh Blackman told The Epoch Times.

With only a few months to go before the November midterm elections, Democrats are working overtime to bring a case against Trump. (Read more from “Legal Experts Say FBI Raid Won’t Keep Trump off the Ballot” HERE)

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Jared Kushner Reacts to FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid, Justice Dept. Probe

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Jared Kushner made his first comments on the FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate over the weekend, saying the raid was a product of Trump’s enemies “over pursuing” him.

Kushner, the 45th president’s son-in-law who served as a senior White House adviser, offered his thoughts on the shocking raid of the Palm Beach, Fla., resort while appearing on Fox News’ Life, Liberty & Levin to promote his new book, Breaking History. Host and conservative commentator Mark Levin asked Kushner to discuss the unprecedented incident, which has catapulted his father-in-law back into the headlines as he prepares to mount a 2024 presidential bid.

“In the way that he drives his enemies so crazy, they always over pursue him and make mistakes in trying to get him,” Kushner told Levin. “And that’s basically what happened here. But, you know, what’s happening now is the same thing being done by the same people in the same way. They’re leaking to the same sources. They’re manufacturing fabulous claims that then get debunked, you know, shortly thereafter.”

“His fiercest critics really accuse him of breaking norms,” he continued. “But what we’re seeing here and what we’ve seen constantly over time, is that they do that exact thing. They break all the norms in order to try to get Trump.” (Read more from “Jared Kushner Reacts to FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid, Justice Dept. Probe” HERE)

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Here’s What Trump’s Doing Next Following the ‘Illegal’ FBI Raid

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By Breitbart. Former President Donald Trump announced he will file a Fourth Amendment unlawful search and seizure motion over the FBI’s “illegal” raid on Mar-a-Lago in a post made on TRUTH Social on Friday.

“A major motion pertaining to the Fourth Amendment will soon be filed concerning the illegal Break-In of my home, Mar-a-Lago, right before the ever important Mid-Term Elections,” Trump posted.

The former President said the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago violated his rights, “together with the rights of all Americans,” and added that it is part of a continued witch hunt against him. Trump added:

My rights, together with the rights of all Americans, have been violated at a level rarely seen before in our Country. Remember, they even spied on my campaign. The greatest Witch Hunt in USA history has been going on for six years, with no consequences to the scammers. It should not be allowed to continue!

Trump’s upcoming Fourth Amendment motion is the latest development in the public feud between him and the FBI after the Mar-a-Lago raid earlier this month.

(Read more from “Here’s What Trump’s Doing Next Following the ‘Illegal’ FBI Raid” HERE)

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Trump Lawyer Says FBI Agents’ Identities Should Be Made Public

By Independent UK, One of the attorneys representing Donald Trump in the wake of the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago has said that CCTV from the search should be released and the agents who carried it out identified – this despite a surge in violent threats against law enforcement agents and justice officials from outraged Trump supporters.

Judge Bruce Reinhart, who signed the search warrant for the raid, says he is inclined to partially release the document as media organisations have requested. He will make a final decision next week after the redactions have been made. (Read more from “Trump Lawyer Says FBI Agents’ Identities Should Be Made Public” HERE)

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Trump Raid Judge’s Order Helps DOJ Drag Out Political Persecution of Its Biggest Foe

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The affidavit used to obtain a warrant to search former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home will be unsealed, and the Department of Justice must justify every redaction it seeks to make to the material, Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ruled yesterday. While Thursday’s decision represents a victory for the media outlets seeking access to the documents, whether the public sees anything of substance in the short term remains to be seen.

Following the unprecedented raid on the former president and de facto leader of the Republican Party, the Department of Justice agreed to release the search warrant and the accompanying attachments that described the places to be searched and identified the items to be seized. The government also filed an unsealed, but redacted, copy of the property receipt list, and yesterday, with the government’s agreement, the court unsealed the criminal cover sheet, the government’s motion to seal the search warrant, and the court’s order sealing the warrant and related materials.

The Department of Justice, however, refused to unseal the search warrant affidavit used to obtain the search warrant, even as multiple media outlets argued in motions that they had a First Amendment right to access that material. Thursday afternoon, Reinhart heard oral argument on the consolidated motions and quickly made clear he believed some portions of the affidavit needed to be unsealed.

“On my initial careful review … there are portions of it that can be unsealed,” Reinhart told the attorneys. Then, following arguments, the court issued an order finding “that on the present record the Government has not met its burden of showing that the entire affidavit should remain sealed.” The court further directed the government to file under seal, by Thursday, August 25, 2022, “its proposed redactions along with a legal memorandum setting forth the justification for the proposed redactions.” (Read more from “Trump Raid Judge’s Order Helps DOJ Drag Out Political Persecution of Its Biggest Foe” HERE)

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Happy Meals: Trump’s Favorite McDonald’s Order Revealed by Jared Kushner

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. . .The 45th president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, reveals in his forthcoming White House memoir that he knew Trump was recovering from his nasty bout of COVID in the fall of 2020 “when he requested one of his favorite meals.”

“McDonald’s Big Mac, Filet-o-Fish, fries and a vanilla shake,” the husband of Ivanka Trump recounts, according to a copy of the book obtained by the Washington Examiner.

Trump’s affection for the Golden Arches is well-known and was much commented on during his time in office.

In 2018, Michael Wolff suggested in his controversial book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” that one of the main reasons the then-president preferred fast food was because he “had a longtime fear of being poisoned.”

“[O]ne reason why he liked to eat at McDonald’s — nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely premade,” Wolff wrote. (Read more from “Happy Meals: Trump’s Favorite McDonald’s Order Revealed by Jared Kushner” HERE)

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Here’s What Led the FBI to Seek a Search Warrant on Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Home

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By Townhall. The competing storylines that run concurrent to the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago have all been published, and now we’re getting more into the details of what led the Justice Department to execute a raid on the former president’s home. The feds summoned two Trump attorneys, Pat A. Cipollone and Patrick F. Philbin, to discuss what went down regarding the handling of classified materials at Trump’s Florida residence. These two men were the leading legal representatives who worked with the National Archives regarding questions over sensitive documents at Mar-a-Lago and their retrieval. The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman wrote that Philbin was interviewed last spring over the matter. And the magical mystery tour that led to the FBI ransacking was set into motion (via NYT):

Pat A. Cipollone and Patrick F. Philbin, the White House counsel and his deputy under President Donald J. Trump, were interviewed by the F.B.I. in connection with boxes of sensitive documents that were stored at Mr. Trump’s residence in Florida after he left office, three people familiar with the matter said.

Mr. Cipollone and Mr. Philbin are the most senior people who worked for Mr. Trump who are known to have been interviewed by investigators after the National Archives referred the matter to the Justice Department this year. The interviews are a sign of the intensity of the investigation into how sensitive government material left the White House with Mr. Trump and remained at his Palm Beach, Fla., residence, Mar-a-Lago, for more than a year.

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Evan Corcoran, a lawyer for Mr. Trump who was said to have suggested that the former president resolve the matter with the Justice Department, went through the material, which was kept in boxes in a storage area in the basement, before that meeting, according to people familiar with the move. It was unclear if he was the only one to do so.

(Read more from “Here’s What Led the FBI to Seek a Search Warrant on Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Home” HERE)

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New Details on Trump Espionage Act Investigation Revealed

By Washington Examiner. A judge unsealed more documents related to the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, even as the Department of Justice seeks to keep the affidavit justifying the search hidden.

The search warrant application cover sheet, originally filed Aug. 5 and ordered unsealed on Thursday by the magistrate judge handling the case, provided more details on what the Justice Department was looking for.

The records show Trump was being investigated under 18 U.S.C. 793 (part of the Espionage Act) and said it was related to “willful retention of national defense information.”

The newly unsealed cover sheet pointed to 18 U.S.C. 2071, specifically the “concealment or removal of government records,” as well as 18 U.S.C. 1519, specifically related to “obstruction of federal investigation.”

The DOJ said in the unsealed warrant application that “the basis for the search” under the federal rules of criminal procedure was “evidence of a crime” and “contraband, fruits of a crime, or other items illegally possessed.” (Read more from “New Details on Trump Espionage Act Investigation Revealed” HERE)

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Intellectual Sam Harris: ‘Hunter Biden Could Have Had Children’s Corpses in Basement – I Would Not Have Cared’ (VIDEO)

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Supposed free-thinker and renowned atheist Sam Harris has admitted that he approves of the corporate media manipulating and misinforming the public to stop Donald Trump.

So much for pretending you believe in people hearing all the facts and making up their own minds about things. No, no … in order to preserve democracy, we must manipulate the people, lie to them by way of omission, and hide the truth.

Here it is, straight from the liar’s mouth:

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Trump Trolls Democrats With Sarcastic Endorsements; Trump Endorses Democrat Impeachment Manager Dan Goldman in New York Primary; Goldman Responds

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By Breitbart. Former President Donald Trump trolled the Democrats on Wednesday by endorsing candidates in the party’s primary.

In several posts on his social media platform, the former president first mockingly endorsed lawyer Dan Goldman in his race for Congressional District 10 in New York, hailing him as the man who “headed up the Impeachment Committee and lost.”

“Lawyer Dan Goldman is running for Congress, NY-10, and it is my great honor to Strongly Endorse him,” Trump began. “I do this not because of the fact that he headed up the Impeachment Committee and lost, but because he was honorable, fair, and highly intelligent.”

“While it was my honor to beat him, and beat him badly, Dan Goldman has a wonderful future ahead,” the former president added. “He will be very compassionate and compromising to those within the Republican Party, and will do everything possible to make sure they have a fair chance at winning against the Radical Left Democrats, who he knows are destroying our Country.”

“I would like to thank Dan for fighting so hard for America, and for working so tirelessly to stop ‘Trump,’” he concluded. “He was not easy to beat, but winning against him made me realize just how very talented I am!” (Read more from “Trump Trolls NY Democrats With Sarcastic Endorsements” HERE)

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Trump Endorses Democrat Impeachment Manager Dan Goldman in New York Primary; Goldman Responds

By Daily Wire. Former President Donald Trump announced Wednesday afternoon that he was endorsing attorney Dan Goldman, a Democrat, in the primary for New York’s 10th Congressional District.

Trump’s endorsement of Goldman comes after The New York Times endorsed Goldman in the primary last week in part because of “his work on the impeachment trial.”

“Lawyer Dan Goldman is running for Congress, NY-10, and it is my great honor to Strongly Endorse him,” Trump said. “I do this not because of the fact that he headed up the Impeachment Committee and lost, but because he was honorable, fair, and highly intelligent. While it was my honor to beat him, and beat him badly, Dan Goldman has a wonderful future ahead.” . . .

“Last week Donald Trump attacked Dan Goldman, who led his impeachment,” Goldman said in a statement. “Now he’s pretending to endorse Goldman. True to form, Trump is trying to meddle in an election.” (Read more from “Trump Endorses Democrat Impeachment Manager Dan Goldman in New York Primary; Goldman Responds” HERE)

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