Donald Trump got exactly what he was demanding, as usual — the Justice Department on Friday released to the public the affidavit used to get the warrant to raid Mar-A-Lago.
12.08.2022 - 18:53 / perezhilton.com
Donald Trump wants the world to know why FBI agents raided Mar-a-Lago — and now it sounds like he’s going to get EXACTLY that!
The former President took to his Truth Social online platform on Thursday to whine about how the search warrant in his ongoing legal battle should be unsealed and opened for the public to see. And later on Thursday, US Attorney General Merrick Garland (pictured above, inset) called his bluff!
Trump then: f**king around. Trump now: finding out!!
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This all started in a wild rant on his social media app. In one post, Trump stated he was “ENCOURAGING” the “immediate release” of documents related to the warrant served by the FBI on his Palm Beach home earlier this week:
Of course, releasing the warrant would give journalists and the public a pretty damn good clue as to the details of what the FBI was looking for in the south Florida resort home. Just yesterday, The Washington Post reported sources revealed nuclear documents were at question here.
But be careful what you wish for, Donald!! Amid Trump’s request for transparency (a first for him), Garland released a statement on Thursday confirming that he “personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter.” AG Garland also explained the Department of Justice agrees with Trump — they believe the warrant should be unsealed, too! The Attorney General laid it all out by calling Trump’s “immediate release” bluff:
Now, according to CNN, the Justice Department is set to confer with Trump about the request to unseal warrant docs. That meeting must take place by 3:00 p.m. ET on Friday, at which point both parties need to tell the court whether they agree on
Donald Trump got exactly what he was demanding, as usual — the Justice Department on Friday released to the public the affidavit used to get the warrant to raid Mar-A-Lago.
the affidavit in support of a search conducted Aug. 8 at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, showing that after classified documents were found in boxes he handed over voluntarily, the Justice Department suspected there were more at his Florida residence.The DOJ was unsuccessful in keeping the document under seal, but a federal judge allowed the department to heavily redact its contents to protect the identities of agents and potential witnesses.New details from the affidavit were scant.
In the wider scheme of things, ongoing litigation in relation to his unapproved use of Eddy Grant’s ‘Electric Avenue’ in a 2020 campaign video probably isn’t a major cause of stress for former US President Donald Trump. But that lawsuit proceeds, and now the Grant side has got an extension to the case’s discovery phase in order to subpoena Trump’s former Deputy Chief Of Staff Dan Scavino.Grant sued Trump in September 2020 over the use of his 1983 track in an election video which, according to a description in the musician’s lawsuit, featured “a visual depiction of a high-speed red train bearing the words ‘Trump Pence KAG 2020′ in stark contrast to a slow-moving handcar bearing the words ‘Biden President: Your Hair Smells Terrific’”.No one had sought permission to use ‘Electric Avenue’ in that video, hence the copyright infringement lawsuit.
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retrieved classified documents from his Mar-a-Lago estate.During an appearance on CNN, host Don Lemon quoted Cohen as previously saying that “with the walls closing in around [Trump], his next move is to find a scapegoat.” Asked to elaborate on what he meant, Cohen was happy to oblige.“I believe the next scapegoat is going to be Rudy-Colludi Giuliani,” the attorney said. “Everybody likes a bargain, but Donald Trump really likes a bargain, and I believe that Rudy is like a BOGO — buy one get one half-off.”Cohen added that he thinks Trump and his allies are prepared to “throw [Giuliani] under the bus” for both the FBI’s investigation of the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and the current investigation in Georgia related to whether or not the former president violated the law in an effort to flip the 2020 election results.“They’re just gonna keep pointing the finger,” Cohen said.Lemon and Cohen also discussed the number of excuses that Trump has given so far for the documents at Mar-a-Lago.
Man, some days the wheels of justice move so slowly you can’t even tell if the engine is on. Some weeks, though, the wheels spin so fast it’s like you’re watching a Fast & Furious movie. Only the crimes are even more outrageous.
The FBI descending on former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property, searching it and removing at least a dozen boxes on Monday, continued to fascinate “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert during his second-to-last show of the week.On Thursday, Colbert once again dove into the topic that has been featured in at least three of his monologues so far.“As we continue to learn more details about the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago earlier this week, it does not look good for former president Velveeta Voldemort,” Colbert said, opening his show with his latest nickname for Trump.“The former president and his minions have tried to play the victim card here saying, ‘Why he’s just a simple country club owner, and that this whole investigation is a nothing burger,’” Colbert said, doing a slightly Southern accent. “But it’s beginning to look like the investigation is a ‘Something Royale with Cheese.’ Now I’m not gonna get my hopes up.
You know how mobsters talk about the FBI in movies and TV shows? How it’s always, “They’re persecuting us” and “It’s all a conspiracy” and just so indignant? Meanwhile as the audience, we are just watching them straight-up commit every crime they’re accused of and more? Don’t know why we thought of that just now… Anyway, onto Donald Trump‘s response to the raid on Mar-A-Lago!
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Donald Trump‘s home was raided by the FBI earlier in the week, and the whereabouts of several players in the Trump Administration and his family are being revealed.
More information is coming out now about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump‘s Florida home.
Donald Trump‘s beloved home at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida has been raided by the FBI.
FBI’s raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate – but she was more than happy to share her initial thoughts on the matter while appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Tuesday. Sitting with co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski to discuss her much-scrutinized trip to Taiwan last week, Pelosi was first asked to share her thoughts on the historic raid.“We’ll get to the very important questions surrounding what’s happening in Taiwan in just a moment,” Brzezinski began. “But first – good morning – we would like very much to get your reaction, Madame Speaker, to the search of former president Trump’s estate in Mar-a-Lago down in Florida.”“All I know about that is what is in the public domain,” the Speaker of the House began, smiling.
The FBI has searched Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate as part of an investigation into whether he took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence, sources have said. Disclosing the search in a lengthy statement, the former US president said that agents opened up a safe at his home and described their work as an "unannounced raid" that he likened to "prosecutorial misconduct".