“The Justice Department conducts investigations independently, and we leave any law enforcement matters to them,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday. Neither the Justice Department nor the FBI commented on the raid, while the White House says President Biden had no advance knowledge that Trump, his potential 2024 challenger, would be raided. Reinhart signed off on the warrant that allowed federal agents to search the resort earlier this week, though the contents of the document have not been made public. Some have called for Trump’s side of the legal dispute to release any court documents they received in connection to the raid in order to tamp down speculation. “As such, the evidentiary basis presented to the court to justify the necessity of this warrant is of keen interest to the investigative and legislative activities of this Committee.” Robert Miller Neither the Justice Department or the FBI have commented since the raid. Former President Donald Trump blasted the FBI agents who conducted the search for allegedly refusing to allow his attorneys to watch the raid. “I would assume that an escalation of this magnitude - for the Bureau to obtain a court-ordered search warrant and conduct an unannounced search, for the first time in our country’s history, to seize documents stored at a former president’s residence - would indicate that the Federal government perceived something in those documents posed a serious, ongoing threat to our national security,” Turner wrote. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), the ranking member of the House intelligence committee, on Tuesday sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray requesting details on the evidence used to justify the operation. Members of Congress also are seeking answers about the raid, with Republicans led by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) vowing oversight hearings if they retake control following the November midterm elections. Cristobal Herrera-Ulashkevich/EPA-EFE/Shutterstockįox Business also reported Wednesday afternoon that Trump’s legal team is considering legal action to force the Justice Department to “turn over a physical copy of the search warrant, the affidavit, and a complete inventory of what was taken in the Mar-a-Lago raid.” It’s unclear if Trump would publicly release those records. “As of the filing of this motion,” the group added, “the public record consists solely of speculation and innuendo.” The FBI were looking for presidential records and evidence of classified information being stored on the premises. In a court motion Wednesday, Judicial Watch wrote that “the public has an urgent and substantial interest in understanding the predicate for the execution of the unprecedented search warrant of the private residence of a former president.” 15 to respond to a request to unseal the records from conservative transparency group Judicial Watch. His attorney Christina Bobb did not immediately respond to a request for confirmation from The Post.īut the document may be released anyhow, as US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who issued the warrant, gave the Justice Department until 5 p.m.
“No, we’re not releasing a copy of the warrant,” NBC News quoted a source close to Trump as saying. Trump blasted the raid as a partisan “ surprise attack” and “political targeting at the highest level.” The Justice Department has said little publicly about the unprecedented raid on a former president, which is believed to be part of an effort to retrieve presidential records that may contain classified information. Steve Bannon surrenders to New York prosecutors in border wall fraud caseįormer President Donald Trump reportedly has no plans to publish the search warrant used to raid Mar-a-Lago on Monday - as the judge who approved the search considers a motion to unseal the document. Most say Trump acted ‘illegally’ or ‘unethically’ by keeping classified docs: pollįormer AG Barr: DOJ ‘getting very close’ to call on indicting Trump Trump pays tribute to ‘grand and beautiful’ Queen Elizabeth II: ‘Nobody like her!’
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