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.
09.08.2022 - 17:41 / thewrap.com
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.
“I was surprised that it flashed on my phone last evening, so I don’t really have too much to say except that to have a visit like that, you need a warrant; to have a warrant you need justification. And that says that no one is above the law, not even a president or a former president of the United States. But all of this should be made known to us over time.
But I have no knowledge of it.”Speculating on what’s become known of the raid overnight, specifically as it relates to Trump’s handling of presidential documents, Pelosi added: “I do know that there has been chatter, more than chatter, about the presidential, president’s documents and how they must be preserved for history. And we’ll see what the justification was for the raid. I just don’t know.
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.
Alec Baldwin feared for his safety after former U. S. President Donald Trump commented on the fatal shooting on the set of Rust.
would “consider” testifying if asked, and Cheney confirmed that there have been discussions with his counsel, who seem to be on that same page.“I think, you know, look, he played a critical role on Jan. 6,” Cheney told Karl. “If he had succumbed to the pressure that Donald Trump was putting on him, we would have had a much worse constitutional crisis.
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.
Premiere Radio Network’s “The Sean Hannity Show,” pointed out that the Constitution does not bar felons from holding the presidency and sets the limits for the office to only being born in the United States and being at least 35 years old. “Being a felon is not a disqualification,” Hannity said.
Naman Ramachandran “It” and “The Shining” author Stephen King has made his views on former U.S. President Donald Trump clear.In an interview with the Sunday Times, where he was in conversation with “Pointless” presenter Richard Osman, King said: “I happen to think that Trump was a horrible president and is a horrible person. I think he actually engaged in criminal behavior and, certainly, I felt that he was a sociopath who tried to overturn the American democracy not out of any political wish of his own but because he could not admit that he had lost.”When asked about the rise of fascism in the U.S., King said: “There is a strong right wing, a political right wing in America, and they have a megaphone in some of the media.
raid of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property during Thursday’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” segment, which was guest hosted by Brian Kilmeade.The image contains a superimposed head of Judge Bruce Reinhart attached to the body of Jeffrey Epstein, with Ghislaine Maxwell massaging Epstein’s feet.“This is the judge in charge of the, of the, of the, um, as you know, of the warrant,” Kilmeade said, repeating “of the uh” four times before continuing to his next thought. “We’ll see if he’s going to release it next — he likes Oreos and whiskey.”The bogus photo that Fox aired came from an image of Epstein getting a foot massage from Ghislaine Maxwell, where the altered pic of the judge was Photoshopped.The actual photo was released publicly during Maxwell’s trial.
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!
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!
Donald Trump is pleading the fifth.
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.
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".
Associated Press later confirmed that a raid had taken place, citing a person familiar with the matter. The person said the raid was related to whether Trump had taken any classified information from the White House, part of an investigation that’s been ongoing since National Archives workers discovered classified documents in boxes at Trump’s resort home in Florida.New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted a screenshot of Trump’s full statement:Trump says MAL has been searched by feds pic.twitter.com/UEC5KE5pJmThe FBI did not immediately return messages seeking confirmation from TheWrap.
Donald Trump has confirmed that his Florida home Mar-a-Lago has been raided by the FBI.
Ellise Shafer Donald Trump said on Monday that the FBI conducted a search of his home at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla.According to the New York Times, two people familiar with the matter said the search seemed to be focused on classified documents that Trump brought with him to Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House. The Associated Press reports that the Justice Department had been investigating if Trump still had records in his possession after the National Archives and Records Administration said it found 15 boxes of classified material at the estate.The former president also issued a statement about the search, calling it a “raid” and comparing the situation to Watergate.“After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate,” Trump wrote in the statement, according to the Times.