Florida Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart will hold a Thursday hearing regarding the media’s request to unseal investigators’ Mar-a-Lago affidavit, according to a report.
“classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items the FBI” sought in the raid of Mar-a-Lago. That claim has not been proven.
However, the FBI did collect Trump’s passports during the raid. Though the media tried to spin it otherwise, Trump’s team dropped an email from Jay Bratt, the top counterintelligence official in the Justice Department’s national security division, confirming the passports were seized in the raid. The email revealed the agency would be returned to Trump “at 2 PM today.”
On Tuesday, the FBI issued an unusual statement defending its seizure procedures. “In executing search warrants, the FBI follows search and seizure procedures ordered by courts, then returns items that do not need to be retained for law enforcement purposes,” the FBIThe FBI’s statement is notable because the agency almost never comments on such matters. The statement could have been published to
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