Heavily Redacted: Justice Department makes public affidavit that led to FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home – IOTW Report

Heavily Redacted: Justice Department makes public affidavit that led to FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home

Just the News:

The Justice Department on Friday released the heavily redacted  – or blacked out – affidavit that successfully argued why the FBI needed to conduct a raid on former President Trump’s Florida estate to remove government documents they believed to be top-secret or classified, according to reports. 

Daily Mail and ABC News have reported that the affidavit has been released.

According to the Daily Mail, U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart wrote in the order, “I find that the government has met its burden of showing a compelling reason/good cause to seal portions of the affidavit,” and added that the redacted portions were needed for protecting witnesses, agents, and parties who were not charged, in addition to the strategy and scope of the probe.

The department blacked out the names of witnesses and agents to protect them and the agency’s investigation, but the document, which allowed for the warrant in the unprecedented Aug. 8 raid at Mar-a-Lago, is expected to provide at least some new details.

In acknowledging the extraordinary public interest in the investigation, Reinhart on Thursday ordered the department by Friday to make public a redacted version of the affidavit, according to the Associated Press.

The judge’s directive came hours after federal law enforcement officials submitted under seal the portions of the affidavit that they want to keep secret as their investigation moves forward, the wire service also reports.

Last week, Reinhart ordered the department to make the redactions and said he would make revisions if unsatisfied with federal lawyers’ efforts. more

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Here is Techno Fog’s take on the documents:
https://technofog.substack.com/p/the-trump-search-warrant-affidavit

9 Comments on Heavily Redacted: Justice Department makes public affidavit that led to FBI raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home

  1. When They proudly tell you, they INTEND to lie to you, and you allow them to walk away from the lampposts… your grandchildren NEED to be in boxcars.

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  2. On Newsmax, there was a dem lawyer telling the host that he doesn’t understand why the democrat party is trying to HELP Trump. LOL.
    He pretty much said this was all some bullshit.

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  3. MJA
    He’s looking at it wrong. Last night Biden declared war on his enemy. Trump supporters. Fascist Lite I believe he called us. Trump posted on Truth Social a rather cryptic message but he was telling everyone he expects to be arrested. Long story short this coup is going to try and spill some blood, call Martial Law, call off the mid-terms and blame Trump supporters. They know they’ll lose big if they allow the elections to take place.

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  4. Joe’s master GWB is the reigning master of redacting to protect the UNIPARTY!

    DISCLAIMER:
    Voted Ronny 9 times. Never voted for American hater GWB. I love America.
    Biased indeed!

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  5. @Brad August 26, 2022 at 2:30 pm

    > They know they’ll lose big if they allow the elections to take place.

    They’ll win more if those they call “enemy” agree to “elections”.

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