U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart gave prosecutors a week to submit a copy of the affidavit with proposed redactions for the information it wants to keep secret after the FBI seized classified and top secret information during a search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate last week.
The hearing was convened Thursday after several news organizations, including The Associated Press, sought to unseal additional records tied to last week’s search, including the affidavit. It is likely to contain key details about the Justice Department’s investigation examining whether Trump retained and mishandled classified and sensitive government records.
The Justice Department has adamantly opposed making the affidavit public, arguing that doing so would compromise its ongoing investigation, would expose the identities of witnesses and could prevent others from coming forward and cooperating with the government.
The attorneys for the news organizations, however, argued that the unprecedented nature of the Justice Department's investigation warrants public disclosure.
“You can't trust what you can't see,” said Chuck Tobin, a lawyer representing the AP and several other news outlets.
In addition to ordering the redactions, the judge agreed to make public other documents, including the warrant's cover sheet, the Justice Department's motion to seal the documents and the judge's order requiring them to be sealed.
Those documents showed the FBI was specifically investigating the “willful retention of national defense information,” the concealment or removal of government records and obstruction of a federal investigation.
Jay Bratt, a top Justice Department national security prosecutor, had argued that the affidavit should remain hidden from the public. Unsealing it, he said, would provide a “road map” of the investigation — which is in its “early stages” — and expose the next steps to be taken by federal agents and prosecutors.
He argued it was in the public interest for the investigation, including interviews of witnesses, to go forward unhindered.
As the hearing kicked off, a small caravan of vehicles with Trump flags drove past the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach, Florida. An attorney for Trump, Christina Bobb, was in the courthouse Thursday but said she was only there to observe the court proceeding.
Bratt argued in court that even a redacted version of the document could reveal investigative steps or create the ability for sleuths or those being eyed in the investigation to identify witnesses in the case. He also contended that the Justice Department had already gone to rare lengths to bring transparency, including making a request for the court to unseal the warrant and property receipt, which were made public last week.
“There is heightened interest," he conceded. "This is likely an unprecedented situation.”
Trump, in a Truth Social post last week, called for the release of the unredacted affidavit in the interest of transparency.
Reinhart gave the government until next Thursday to submit its version with the proposed redactions. He said he would then review it and may meet lawyers for the government and give them a chance to make an argument for why specific information should be withheld.
Justice Department attorneys have argued in a court filings that the investigation into Trump's handling of “highly classified material” is ongoing and that the document contains sensitive information about witnesses.
A recent filing by Bratt and Juan Antonio Gonzalez, the U.S. attorney in Miami, says making the affidavit public would “cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation.”
“If disclosed, the affidavit would serve as a roadmap to the government’s ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course, in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps,” they wrote.
FBI agents searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on Aug. 8, removing 11 sets of classified documents, with some not only marked top secret but also “sensitive compartmented information," according to a receipt of what was taken that was released Friday. That is a special category meant to protect the nation’s most important secrets that if revealed publicly could cause “exceptionally grave” damage to U.S. interests. The court records did not provide specific details about information the documents might contain.
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It’s incredible that folks like him go through all that schooling and work only to end doing time for a total buffoon! Even if it’s only a couple of months you still ruin your character.
given 5 months in jail for numerous felonies. if he does not cooperate and testify truthfully that 5 months becomes 15 years. wonder if he will go down and spend the rest of his life in prison for the orange jabba the hutt??
also, they will know he is lying because prosecutors never ask questions they do not already know the answer to, typically.
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given 5 months in jail for numerous felonies. if he does not cooperate and testify truthfully that 5 months becomes 15 years. wonder if he will go down and spend the rest of his life in prison for the orange jabba the hutt??
also, they will know he is lying because prosecutors never ask questions they do not already know the answer to, typically.
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you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
given 5 months in jail for numerous felonies. if he does not cooperate and testify truthfully that 5 months becomes 15 years. wonder if he will go down and spend the rest of his life in prison for the orange jabba the hutt??
also, they will know he is lying because prosecutors never ask questions they do not already know the answer to, typically.
Stipulation he did not testify against Trumpolinni himself but the Trump organization!
given 5 months in jail for numerous felonies. if he does not cooperate and testify truthfully that 5 months becomes 15 years. wonder if he will go down and spend the rest of his life in prison for the orange jabba the hutt??
also, they will know he is lying because prosecutors never ask questions they do not already know the answer to, typically.
Stipulation he did not testify against Trumpolinni himself but the Trump organization!
Trump is smart enough to never compromise himself personally. It's quite the skill.
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up my ass, like Chadwick was up his Posts: 35,768
given 5 months in jail for numerous felonies. if he does not cooperate and testify truthfully that 5 months becomes 15 years. wonder if he will go down and spend the rest of his life in prison for the orange jabba the hutt??
also, they will know he is lying because prosecutors never ask questions they do not already know the answer to, typically.
Stipulation he did not testify against Trumpolinni himself but the Trump organization!
Trump is smart enough to never compromise himself personally. It's quite the skill.
BUT some of the checks were written by fuckstick....
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
given 5 months in jail for numerous felonies. if he does not cooperate and testify truthfully that 5 months becomes 15 years. wonder if he will go down and spend the rest of his life in prison for the orange jabba the hutt??
also, they will know he is lying because prosecutors never ask questions they do not already know the answer to, typically.
Stipulation he did not testify against Trumpolinni himself but the Trump organization!
Trump is smart enough to never compromise himself personally. It's quite the skill.
BUT some of the checks were written by fuckstick....
Literally written? Often a canned signature is used on corporate check. Doesn't mean he reviewed them, means they are authorized by the org.
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up my ass, like Chadwick was up his Posts: 35,768
given 5 months in jail for numerous felonies. if he does not cooperate and testify truthfully that 5 months becomes 15 years. wonder if he will go down and spend the rest of his life in prison for the orange jabba the hutt??
also, they will know he is lying because prosecutors never ask questions they do not already know the answer to, typically.
Stipulation he did not testify against Trumpolinni himself but the Trump organization!
Trump is smart enough to never compromise himself personally. It's quite the skill.
BUT some of the checks were written by fuckstick....
Literally written? Often a canned signature is used on corporate check. Doesn't mean he reviewed them, means they are authorized by the org.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
given 5 months in jail for numerous felonies. if he does not cooperate and testify truthfully that 5 months becomes 15 years. wonder if he will go down and spend the rest of his life in prison for the orange jabba the hutt??
also, they will know he is lying because prosecutors never ask questions they do not already know the answer to, typically.
Stipulation he did not testify against Trumpolinni himself but the Trump organization!
Trump is smart enough to never compromise himself personally. It's quite the skill.
BUT some of the checks were written by fuckstick....
Literally written? Often a canned signature is used on corporate check. Doesn't mean he reviewed them, means they are authorized by the org.
just going by reporting...
Understood. I'd be surprised if he literally signed the check, but who knows. He does like big pens.
I like the thumbs up & smile while posing next to the newly orphaned infant whose parents were killed by a white supremacist motivated by his anti-Latino rhetoric.
El Paso Walmart. August 3 2019. 23 killed 23 injured.
given 5 months in jail for numerous felonies. if he does not cooperate and testify truthfully that 5 months becomes 15 years. wonder if he will go down and spend the rest of his life in prison for the orange jabba the hutt??
also, they will know he is lying because prosecutors never ask questions they do not already know the answer to, typically.
It will be interesting to see how it all pans out. If tRump will say (and Weisenberg probably is protecting him) that he didn't know how the books were being handled then there probably won't be anything to pin tRUmp down.
But it does beg the question if tRump Org will sue Weisenberg for fraud and mishandling the books. The corp will suffer massive tax penalties and interest from all of this shit and since fraud is involved the IRS can open up as many tax years as they want to audit.
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It will be interesting to see how it all pans out. If tRump will say (and Weisenberg probably is protecting him) that he didn't know how the books were being handled then there probably won't be anything to pin tRUmp down.
But it does beg the question if tRump Org will sue Weisenberg for fraud and mishandling the books. The corp will suffer massive tax penalties and interest from all of this shit and since fraud is involved the IRS can open up as many tax years as they want to audit.
he is the only one charged besides the company itself. the other recipients were granted immunity to talk.....
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you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
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What are they hiding? Obstruction of justice, perhaps? From WaPo. But hey, it’ll be Hillary’s turn any day now.
A federal appeals court has ordered the release of a secret Justice Department memo discussing whether President Donald Trump obstructed the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The unanimous panel decision issued Friday echoes that of a lower court judge, Amy Berman Jackson, who last year accused the Justice Department of dishonesty in its justifications for keeping the memo hidden.
Department officials argued that the document was protected because it concerned internal deliberations over whether to charge Trump with obstructing special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe of the 2016 Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia. But the judges agreed with Jackson that the record clearly showed that Mueller had already concluded that a sitting president could not be charged with a crime.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Justice Department to put forward proposed redactions as he committed to making public at least part of the affidavit supporting the search warrant for former President Donald Trump's estate in Florida.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart gave prosecutors a week to submit a copy of the affidavit with proposed redactions for the information it wants to keep secret after the FBI seized classified and top secret information during a search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate last week.
The hearing was convened Thursday after several news organizations, including The Associated Press, sought to unseal additional records tied to last week’s search, including the affidavit. It is likely to contain key details about the Justice Department’s investigation examining whether Trump retained and mishandled classified and sensitive government records.
The Justice Department has adamantly opposed making the affidavit public, arguing that doing so would compromise its ongoing investigation, would expose the identities of witnesses and could prevent others from coming forward and cooperating with the government.
The attorneys for the news organizations, however, argued that the unprecedented nature of the Justice Department's investigation warrants public disclosure.
“You can't trust what you can't see,” said Chuck Tobin, a lawyer representing the AP and several other news outlets.
In addition to ordering the redactions, the judge agreed to make public other documents, including the warrant's cover sheet, the Justice Department's motion to seal the documents and the judge's order requiring them to be sealed.
Those documents showed the FBI was specifically investigating the “willful retention of national defense information,” the concealment or removal of government records and obstruction of a federal investigation.
Jay Bratt, a top Justice Department national security prosecutor, had argued that the affidavit should remain hidden from the public. Unsealing it, he said, would provide a “road map” of the investigation — which is in its “early stages” — and expose the next steps to be taken by federal agents and prosecutors.
He argued it was in the public interest for the investigation, including interviews of witnesses, to go forward unhindered.
As the hearing kicked off, a small caravan of vehicles with Trump flags drove past the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach, Florida. An attorney for Trump, Christina Bobb, was in the courthouse Thursday but said she was only there to observe the court proceeding.
Bratt argued in court that even a redacted version of the document could reveal investigative steps or create the ability for sleuths or those being eyed in the investigation to identify witnesses in the case. He also contended that the Justice Department had already gone to rare lengths to bring transparency, including making a request for the court to unseal the warrant and property receipt, which were made public last week.
“There is heightened interest," he conceded. "This is likely an unprecedented situation.”
Trump, in a Truth Social post last week, called for the release of the unredacted affidavit in the interest of transparency.
Reinhart gave the government until next Thursday to submit its version with the proposed redactions. He said he would then review it and may meet lawyers for the government and give them a chance to make an argument for why specific information should be withheld.
Justice Department attorneys have argued in a court filings that the investigation into Trump's handling of “highly classified material” is ongoing and that the document contains sensitive information about witnesses.
A recent filing by Bratt and Juan Antonio Gonzalez, the U.S. attorney in Miami, says making the affidavit public would “cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation.”
“If disclosed, the affidavit would serve as a roadmap to the government’s ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course, in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps,” they wrote.
FBI agents searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on Aug. 8, removing 11 sets of classified documents, with some not only marked top secret but also “sensitive compartmented information," according to a receipt of what was taken that was released Friday. That is a special category meant to protect the nation’s most important secrets that if revealed publicly could cause “exceptionally grave” damage to U.S. interests. The court records did not provide specific details about information the documents might contain.
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Balsamo reported from New York.
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More on Donald Trump-related investigations: https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump
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you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
also, they will know he is lying because prosecutors never ask questions they do not already know the answer to, typically.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
BUT some of the checks were written by fuckstick....
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
just going by reporting...
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
But it does beg the question if tRump Org will sue Weisenberg for fraud and mishandling the books. The corp will suffer massive tax penalties and interest from all of this shit and since fraud is involved the IRS can open up as many tax years as they want to audit.
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he is the only one charged besides the company itself. the other recipients were granted immunity to talk.....
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you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
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2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Chicago; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
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A federal appeals court has ordered the release of a secret Justice Department memo discussing whether President Donald Trump obstructed the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The unanimous panel decision issued Friday echoes that of a lower court judge, Amy Berman Jackson, who last year accused the Justice Department of dishonesty in its justifications for keeping the memo hidden.
Department officials argued that the document was protected because it concerned internal deliberations over whether to charge Trump with obstructing special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe of the 2016 Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia. But the judges agreed with Jackson that the record clearly showed that Mueller had already concluded that a sitting president could not be charged with a crime.
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