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Ex-Prosecutor Argues Jim Jordan 'Should Be Locked Up' For Trump Probe Interference
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Quick Glance: Jim Jordan seeks information from a prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office investigating Trump
  • 7 April (UPI) — On Friday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, requested testimony and documents from one of the prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump.

  • Jordan sought documents from Matthew Colangelo, a former top Justice Department official, regarding his communications with Bragg's office prior to joining the team investigating Trump's alleged hush-money payments and false business records.

  • Trump is the first former president of the United States to be indicted.

  • In a statement, Jordan said, "Pomerantz's public statements about the investigation strongly suggest that Bragg's prosecution of President Trump is politically motivated,"
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Attorney General Merrick Garland Names Special Counsel To Investigate Biden Classified Documents
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Quick Glance: Biden team discovers more classified documents: reports
  • The classification level, number, and precise location of the additional documents were not immediately clear, according to the NBC News report.

  • The two senators also requested an intelligence community damage assessment and a briefing on the retention of classified documents from both Biden, a Democrat, and Republican former President Donald Trump.

  • Secret documents discovered in a think tank

  • The reports come just two days after a White House lawyer revealed that a dozen classified documents from Biden's time as vice president were discovered in November by the president's personal lawyers at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement think tank.
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Mike Pence Subpoenaed By Special Counsel: Reports: Special counsel Jack Smith is overseeing two investigations into former President Donald Trump.
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Mike Pence Subpoenaed By Special Counsel: Reports
Quick Glance: Mike Pence has been subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating Trump.
  • Why it matters: This is the most aggressive move yet in the investigation into allegations that Trump and his associates attempted to derail the 2020 election.

  • Pence's representatives declined to comment, and the special counsel's office did not respond immediately to Axios' request for comment.
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Trump Says The FBI Took His Passports In Its Mar-A-Lago Search: "They stole my three Passports (one expired)," said the former president, who is under ...
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Trump Says The FBI Took His Passports In Its Mar-A-Lago Search
Quick Glance: The Justice Department objects to the release of an affidavit used to search Trump's home.
  • Prosecutors argue that releasing it will jeopardize the investigation into Donald J. Trump's handling of classified documents after he left office.

  • WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department objected on Monday to the release of the affidavit used to authorize the search of former President Donald J. Trump's Florida property, claiming that it would "compromise future investigative steps" and "likely chill" cooperation with witnesses.

  • According to a search warrant made public on Friday, federal investigators retrieved top secret papers from Mr. Trump's residence last week as part of an investigation into suspected violations of the Espionage Act and other laws.
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George Conway: Current Probe Is 'Shortest Distance Between Trump And Orange Jumpsuit'
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Quick Glance: Mar-a-Lago raid: Armed Trump supporters protest at FBI headquarters in Phoenix
  • On Saturday, armed supporters of former President Donald Trump demonstrated outside the FBI office in Phoenix, Arizona, according to Fox 10 Phoenix.

  • According to one demonstrator, they were come to oppose the "unlawful search" of the Florida property.

  • It came after the Justice Department and Trump both stated that the information should be made public.

  • They did not enter FBI property.
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Trump Under Investigation For Violating Espionage Act, Search Warrant Shows: Report
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Quick Glance: Trump Under Investigation For Espionage Act Violations, Search Warrant Shows
  • According to a list of documents gathered by the FBI from Trump's Florida home, some of the documents were labeled "Various classified/TS/SCI documents," an acronym for "top-secret" and "sensitive compartmented information," indicating one of the highest levels of government classification.

  • Twenty boxes were taken in all, with 11 of them labeled with varying degrees of classification.

  • The list also included photo binders, a handwritten message, Trump's campaign advisor Roger Stone's executive clemency award, and information about French President Emmanuel Macron.

  • There was no additional information on the materials included.
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Trump Made It A Felony To Mishandle Classified Documents In 2018: The FBI search of the former president's Florida property was focused on mishandled ...
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Trump Made It A Felony To Mishandle Classified Documents In 2018
Quick Glance: The Mar-a-Lago Raid Proves the United States Isn't a Banana Republic
  • "Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before," Trump said in a statement.

  • Susan Glasser and Peter Baker wrote today on how Trump encouraged the military to stage the sort of flamboyant parades that, as one general put it, characterize foreign dictatorships, and complained that US generals were not as faithful to him as Hitler's top brass was to the Führer.

  • Trump is not facing political persecution.

  • "What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democrat National Committee?

  • " In his statement, Trump inquired.
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger Slams Trump, His 'Creepy' Supporters' Reaction To FBI Search: The Illinois Republican said Trump was 100% responsible for inciting his ...
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Quick Glance: The Importance of the Mar-a-Lago Documents
  • They will be concerned about whether any of the information in the documents is about them, whether Trump has shared any of it, and, perhaps most importantly, whether their intelligence efforts—which resulted in information they shared, trusting the US's ability to safeguard secrets—may have been compromised.

  • During the Trump administration, our intelligence agencies responded to the president's erratic conduct by restricting the president's access to sensitive information, including information obtained from foreign sources.

  • When Biden took office, he made certain that Trump would not have access to real-time intelligence by denying him of the daily briefings that had been a practice for previous presidents.
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Trump Reacts To Mar-A-Lago Affidavit In Angry Social Media Screed: Obama must be very proud of him right now!” the former president said of Bruce Reinhart ...
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Trump Reacts To Mar-A-Lago Affidavit In Angry Social Media Screed
Quick Glance: Donald Trump: Blacked-out affidavit shows president took "top secret" materials home to Mar-a-Lago
  • According to an FBI affidavit, Donald Trump brought sensitive materials, some of which were marked top secret, to his Mar-a-Lago estate.

  • Mr Trump responded on Twitter, writing, "Affidavit heavily redacted!!!"

  • A separate document, a Memorandum of Law, explains why the affidavit needs to be redacted, stating that "revealing this information could severely disadvantage the government as it seeks further information from witnesses... These concerns are particularly compelling in this case... In short, the government has well founded concerns that steps may be taken to frustrate or otherwise interfere with this investigation if facts in the affidavit were prematurely disclosed"
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Former Presidents Don't Accidentally Have Top Secret Docs Stashed At Home: Columnist
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Quick Glance: The Mar-a-Lago search raises an important question: who snitched?
  • According to a CNN analyst, "Anything short of finding the nuclear codes at Mar-a-Lago is going to hugely backfire on the Biden administration."

  • "Nuclear weapons is a hoax, just like Russia, Russia, Russia was a hoax," Trump said on Friday on his Truth Social platform.

  • When it comes to probable spies, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump make the most sense.

  • Since Trump left the White House, the PR-savvy duo has likewise distanced themselves from him.
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Trump's Safe Inspires Meme-Heavy Guessing Game On Twitter: "They even broke into my safe!" the former president said after the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago ...
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Trump's Safe Inspires Meme-Heavy Guessing Game On Twitter
Quick Glance: Michael Steele: Republicans should "try to be less stupid" in the aftermath of the Mar-a-Lago raid
  • "Trump failed to return classified docs requested by the National Archives," Steele wrote in response to Rep.

  • "This is not some random FBI move, so you shitforbrains Republicans calling for "defunding the FBI" should try to be less stupid for a change," Steele wrote.

  • The former president's son, Eric Trump, told Fox News anchor Sean Hannity that the search was centered on records sought by the National Archives.

  • Donald Trump Tags FBI raid on Eric Trump Mar-a-Lago Greene, Marjorie Taylor Steele, Michael Steele, Michael
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Judge Unseals Warrant Used In FBI Mar-a-Lago Search: Law enforcement has been concerned about classified material at Mar-a-Lago that Trump took with him when he ...
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Judge Unseals Warrant Used In FBI Mar-a-Lago Search
Quick Glance: Donald Trump is being probed for espionage charges.
  • The order, which was released on Friday afternoon, reveals that the Justice Department is looking into whether Trump violated many federal laws when he transported official records from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago property.

  • The documents were unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday after the Justice Department sought that they be made public.

  • They were made public an hour after the Wall Street Journal reported that the FBI had retrieved 11 sets of secret documents from Mar-a-Lago.

  • Trump's attorneys claim he used his authority to declassify information he took from the White House to Mar-a-Lago.
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Jan. 6 Panel Could Make Multiple Criminal Referrals Of Trump, Liz Cheney Says: "A man as dangerous as Donald Trump can absolutely never be anywhere near the Oval ...
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Intelligence Director To Review Mar-A-Lago Documents For Risk Assessment: Congress was told that U.S. intelligence officials are working with the Justice ...
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Intelligence Director To Review Mar-A-Lago Documents For Risk Assessment
Quick Glance: Takeaways from the Affidavit Used to Support Trump's Search
  • More materials were provided over by Mr. Trump's advisors in June.

  • However, the Justice Department was questioning witnesses in the case and concluded that Mr. Trump was in possession of further classified materials.

  • The search yielded a cache of very sensitive documents.

  • There were highly classified documents among the materials.

  • The affidavit did not reveal the substance of any of the documents or the subject matter they addressed, and the Justice Department has not addressed the risk to national security if any of the records fell into the hands of competing nations.
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Desperate Trump Floats Impeachment 'Double Jeopardy' Claim Against Indictments: "Isn't this sort of like double jeopardy?" the former president asked after a ...
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John Bolton Says There's ‘No Evidence’ FBI Search Of Mar-A-Lago Was Partisan Overreach
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Quick Glance: US prosecutors should consider providing more evidence Details on Trump's search: previous consultant
  • In an interview with Reuters, Bolton expressed anxiety about releasing the affidavit used to convince a court that the FBI had probable cause to search Trump's house at his Mar-a-Lago resort for classified materials.

  • 1:55PM: FBI raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate: What comes next?

  • Bolton claimed Trump had a penchant for amassing vast volumes of paper, recalling seeing "piles and piles" of it inside the White House dining room.

  • Trump has repeatedly attacked the FBI since the Mar-a-Lago search, saying without evidence that it was driven by a partisan witch hunt against him.
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National Archives To Consult DOJ About How To Recover 'Unlawfully Removed' Records
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William Barr Rips Trump For 'Pandering To Outrage' Over Mar-A-Lago Search: It's premature to reach a conclusion about the ex-president's trove of government ...
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William Barr Rips Trump For 'Pandering To Outrage' Over Mar-A-Lago Search
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Donald Trump's Lawyers Take Aim At Mar-a-Lago Probe; Call It 'Misguided': Lawyers for former President Donald Trump say a criminal investigation into the ...
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Donald Trump's Lawyers Take Aim At Mar-a-Lago Probe; Call It 'Misguided'
Quick Glance: Chris Christie said Trump gave the DOJ "no choice" but to conduct a raid. Mar-a-Lago
  • Christie stated that the top-secret nature of the materials, along with Trump's refusal to cooperate with the DOJ, put it in a "no choice" situation.

  • In response, Christie stated that the Justice Department's odds of winning an appeal were "pretty good."

  • "It's not only the nature of the documents."

  • During the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, officers took 11 sets of classified documents, some of which were marked "top secret."
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Jimmy Fallon Flames MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell Over Hardee's Run Gone Wrong: Fallon joked about Lindell's claim that FBI agents recently surprised him to execute ...
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Jimmy Fallon Flames MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell Over Hardee's Run Gone Wrong
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George Conway Compares Trump To Tony Soprano Trying To Uncover A Rat: Trump and his lawyers are calling for the release of the affidavit justifying the FBI ...
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George Conway Compares Trump To Tony Soprano Trying To Uncover A Rat
Quick Glance: Mar-a-Lago: Unsealed legal records reveal Trump's legal woes
  • A federal judge unveiled records Thursday that reveal additional details about Donald Trump's legal problems with the Mar-a-Lago search.

  • Prior to Thursday, the only information regarding the laws that agents suspected Trump of violating came from the warrant, which was disclosed last Friday."Clearly, the FBI currently believes Mr. Trump not only took properly marked classified documents to Mar-a-Lago, but also kept them and resisted turning them over when confronted by the government," Moss said.Even if the information is declassified, the FBI might possibly use obstruction charges to prosecute Trump, he added.
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Any 'Fair Jury' Would Convict Trump In Damning Documents Case: George Conway: As for the former president going to prison, the conservative lawyer predicted: “I ...
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Quick Glance: Trump's aides quickly packed his belongings as he prepared to leave the White House.
  • According to the Times, the former Trump officials interviewed indicated they had no recollection of seeing secret documents being placed in boxes.

  • Former aides told Politico last month that the Oval Office and an adjacent private dining room were only packed up the weekend before Trump left the White House.

  • Other intelligence officials told The New York Times that Trump lacked the same level of caution.

  • According to John Bolton, a former Trump national security advisor, if they requested for the documents back, Trump would think they didn't trust him.
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Trump Claims He Had A 'Standing Order' That Made It OK To Take Classified Docs: There are, however, several problems with that excuse.
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Quick Glance: Judge reinstates Obama-era coal-sales prohibition on US lands
  • U.S. District Judge Brian Morris' decision forces government officials to complete a new environmental evaluation before resuming coal sales from public lands.

  • Almost half of the country's yearly coal production — 260 million tons last year — is mined by private corporations under lease on federal land, largely in Western states like Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado.

  • According to government figures, the coal program brought in nearly $400 million in royalties and other payments to federal and state budgets in 2021.

  • Montana and Wyoming officials intervened in the lawsuit on behalf of the federal government, arguing against restoring the moratorium.
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Trevor Noah Loses It Over Most ‘Insane’ Jan. 6 Rioter Story Ever: "The Daily Show" host said he didn't think the story could get any crazier.
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Trevor Noah Loses It Over Most ‘Insane’ Jan. 6 Rioter Story Ever
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Rep. Scott Perry Suing To Stop FBI From Accessing His Phone: Agents seized the Trump ally's phone earlier this month and made a copy of everything on it ...
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Rep. Scott Perry Suing To Stop FBI From Accessing His Phone
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Washington Post Slams Sen. Lindsey Graham For Remark That 'Reads More Like A Threat'
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Washington Post Slams Sen. Lindsey Graham For Remark That 'Reads More Like ...
Quick Glance: Lindsey Graham: Trump's prosecution for leaking confidential information will spark riots
  • Senator Lindsey Graham predicted riots if Trump is charged with mishandling confidential government records and Hillary Clinton is not.

  • "And I'll say this, if there is a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information after the Clinton debacle, there will be riots in the streets."

  • A multi-year State Department investigation concluded in 2019 that Clinton's use of a private email server jeopardized sensitive material, but there was "no persuasive evidence of systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information."

  • According to court records, the Justice Department stated that when Trump left office, he brought critical and confidential materials with him to Mar-a-Lago.
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National Archives: Please, Leave Us Out Of Your Political Hackery: In a staffwide memo, the acting U.S. archivist tartly addressed the agency's role in trying to ...
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National Archives: Please, Leave Us Out Of Your Political Hackery
Quick Glance: Mar-a-Lago: Files would "just disappear" if Trump was elected, according to Grisham.
  • Former Trump White House press secretary Stephenie Grisham stated official paperwork would "just disappear" when Trump was around.

  • Grisham, who worked for Trump from July 2019 to April 2020, claimed Trump often took official paperwork from the White House's working spaces to his private presidential house.

  • According to her, "Any documents that made it to the White House residence were these boxes Trump carried around with him."

  • "They would get handed off to the residence and just disappear."
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John Dean Predicts Legacy Of Jan. 6 Investigation Into Donald Trump: The House committee was “taking such a historic look at the presidency at such an important ...
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John Dean Predicts Legacy Of Jan. 6 Investigation Into Donald Trump
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Ex-Trump Lawyer Warned Him About Legal Risk Of Keeping Documents: NYT: Eric Herschmann advised former President Donald Trump last year to return the materials ...
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Ex-Trump Lawyer Warned Him About Legal Risk Of Keeping Documents: NYT
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Jan. 6 Committee Will Share 20 Transcripts With Justice Department: The Justice Department has faced criticism over its handling of the plot to overturn the 2020 ...
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Jan. 6 Committee Will Share 20 Transcripts With Justice Department
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Feds Search Home Of Ex-Trump Official Jeffrey Clark: Reports: Authorities reportedly searched the home of the former official in connection with an investigation ...
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Feds Search Home Of Ex-Trump Official Jeffrey Clark: Reports
Quick Glance: Feds search the residence of Donald Trump's Justice Department employee Jeffrey Clark
  • Federal agents have raided the home of a former Justice Department official who promoted ex-President Donald Trump's phony claims of election fraud.

  • Clark was essential to Trump's campaign to persuade the Justice Department that there was enough voter fraud in Georgia and other states to call Joe Biden's presidency into question.

  • Clark's role in the attempt, as well as the efforts he took to assist Trump, were scheduled to be discussed during the Thursday afternoon session.

  • Clark and his attorneys did not respond promptly.
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Trump Suddenly Loves 'Sleazy' FBI Agents, Insists He Always 'Has Their Backs': He claims agents are “furious at FBI leadership” for the “political weaponization ...
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Trump Suddenly Loves 'Sleazy' FBI Agents, Insists He Always 'Has Their ...
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Trump's Latest Rant: FBI Photo Made Me Look 'Like A Slob': One Twitter user wondered why the former president is more "worried about being seen as sloppy more ...
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Trump's Latest Rant: FBI Photo Made Me Look 'Like A Slob'
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Mary Trump: Donald Trump In A 'Panic' Over FBI Raid, Shocked DOJ Took Action: The former president’s niece said Trump “could not possibly believe it was coming” ...
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Trump Had 300 Classified Documents At Mar-a-Lago, Called Boxes ‘Mine:’ Report: It’s unclear what type of classified information officials found ...
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Quick Glance: Trump lawyers want a halt to the Mar-a-Lago document investigation and a special master to oversee the study
  • The lawsuit, filed on Monday by Trump's legal team, cast the search in stark political terms and characterized the government's search warrant as overly broad, allowing FBI agents to seize "boxes of documents merely because they are physically found together with other items purportedly within the scope of the warrant."

  • Trump's lawsuit comes after a federal magistrate said he would consider publishing portions of an affidavit used by federal agents to justify the search.

  • "The Aug. 8 search warrant at Mar-a-Lago was authorized by a federal court upon the required finding of probable cause," said Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley.
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Former Trump Chief Of Staff Mark Meadows Subpoenaed In Jan. 6 Probe: Report: The report comes after news of the subpoena of former Vice President Mike Pence for ...
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Former Trump Chief Of Staff Mark Meadows Subpoenaed In Jan ...
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Trump Doubles Down On Vicious FBI Attacks Over Mar-A-Lago Search: The former president cited "great simmering anger" over the "corrupt" FBI in a series of ...
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Trump Doubles Down On Vicious FBI Attacks Over Mar-A-Lago Search
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Donald Trump Jr. Offers Wildest Defense Yet Of His Dad Over Mar-A-Lago Documents: If Donald Trump still had the nuclear codes, it would probably be a "good" ...
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National Archives Releases Records Tied to Trump Classified Documents: The National Archives and Records Administration released a cache of documents related to ...
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National Archives Releases Records Tied to Trump Classified Documents
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DOJ Warns Rep. Jim Jordan It Won't Share Ongoing Probe Details To Protect 'Integrity'
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DOJ Warns Rep. Jim Jordan It Won't Share Ongoing Probe Details To Protect ...
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MSNBC Analyst Predicts Trump Will Seek Desperate Measures If Hit With Indictment: Glenn Kirschner has previously predicted that the former president will be ...
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MSNBC Analyst Predicts Trump Will Seek Desperate Measures If Hit With ...
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Don Jr. Posts 'Dick Pic' Of Dad After Affidavit Release: 'Redact This!': "Hang in there, Mr. President," goofs one die-hard fan.
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Don Jr. Posts 'Dick Pic' Of Dad After Affidavit Release: 'Redact This!'
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McConnell Calls Abortion Opinion Leak An ‘Attack’ On Supreme Court By The ‘Radical Left’
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Trump's Defense Department Wiped Phones With Jan. 6 Texts, Court Filing Claims: A government watchdog group is urging the Department of Justice to take over and ...
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Trump's Defense Department Wiped Phones With Jan. 6 Texts ...
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Rep. Louie Gohmert Compares FBI Office To Sin Cities 'Sodom And Gomorrah': Rightwing lawmaker claims he learned of "sexual improprieties" at bureau headquarters ...
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Rep. Louie Gohmert Compares FBI Office To Sin Cities 'Sodom And Gomorrah'
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Former FBI Official Thinks Taking Away Trump Attorney's Phone Is A Critical Move: Federal agents seized John Eastman's phone outside of a restaurant last week.
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Justice Department Appeals Ruling On Transportation Mask Mandate: The mask requirement "remains necessary for the public health," the CDC told the Justice ...
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Quick Glance: Following a federal ruling, these airlines and companies have eliminated mask mandates.
  • "Effective immediately, face masks are optional for our guests and employees onboard Hawaiian Airlines flights," according to a statement.

  • The Oregon airport announced Monday that masks will no longer be needed or enforced.

  • "Per TSA's removal of its federal mask mandate, masks are now optional at Tampa International Airport, effective immediately," the tweet stated.

  • "Passengers, employees and guests are no longer required [to] wear masks or face coverings in any of the facilities or terminals at TPA."
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Why The Justice Department Can’t Say More About The Mar-A-Lago Raid: And why Donald Trump can.
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Why The Justice Department Can’t Say More About The Mar-A-Lago Raid
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Department of Justice seized $3 billion in Bitcoin found in underground safe and popcorn tin after Silk Road fraud
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Quick Glance: The United States has seized $3.4 billion in bitcoin stolen from Silk Road.
  • The US government claimed Monday that it had seized $3.4 billion in bitcoin from a real estate developer who stole the cryptocurrency a decade ago from the dark web marketplace Silk Road.

  • "For almost ten years, the whereabouts of this massive chunk of missing bitcoin had ballooned into an over $3.3 billion mystery," stated US Attorney Damian Williams.

  • Prosecutors said Zhong robbed Silk Road by initiating rapid transactions from approximately nine anonymous accounts, which deceived the site's withdrawal-processing system into transferring the bitcoin into his accounts.
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George Conway Mocks Trump's Ever-Changing Excuses In Cookie-Themed Essay: "People throughout the Country are very angry with you for going after My Cookies. Very ...
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George Conway Mocks Trump's Ever-Changing Excuses In Cookie-Themed Essay
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Trevor Noah Spots 1 Big Error Informant Made Before 'Betraying Trump's Trust': Trump is reportedly paranoid about a potential "rat" who may have tipped off the ...
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Trevor Noah Highlights The Irony Of The FBI Seizing Trump's Passports: Trump claims the FBI "stole" his passports when they raided his Florida home last week.
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Trevor Noah Highlights The Irony Of The FBI Seizing Trump's Passports
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National Archives Requests DOJ Probe Into Trump's Handling Of White House Records
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National Archives Requests DOJ Probe Into Trump's Handling Of White House ...
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Justice Department Prepares To Appeal Judge's Ruling On Transportation Mask Mandate
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DOJ: No vendors want to work with Trump to digitize Mar-a-Lago docs: The DOJ asked for one more day to choose someone to digitize the 11,000 files for the ...
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DOJ: No vendors want to work with Trump to digitize Mar-a-Lago docs
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Trevor Noah Highlights The 1 Lesson Trump Can Teach That Isn't On 'Law And Order'
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Quick Glance: Why was Trump's request for a "special master" granted by a judge?
  • Cannon also granted the special master in this case the unusual authority to search for papers covered by "executive privilege."

  • Executive privilege is a contentious legal notion that states that US presidents and their staffs can deny some legal demands if they jeopardize national security or the executive branch's operations.

  • She has given the Department of Justice and Trump's legal team until Friday to come up with a list of suitable special masters.

  • Will there now be special masters in every [criminal] investigation?"
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Man whose fireworks LAPD detonated is sentenced to prison: Arturo Ceja III, 27, pleaded guilty to the unlicensed transport of explosives from Nevada to ...
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Man whose fireworks LAPD detonated is sentenced to prison
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John Dean Explains Why Donald Trump ‘Should Not Sleep Well' Over Jan. 6: The Watergate figure interpreted Attorney General Merrick Garland's latest comments as a ...
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John Dean Explains Why Donald Trump ‘Should Not Sleep Well' Over Jan. 6
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Mark Meadows complies with DOJ subpoena: Meadows handed over the same information to DOJ that he provided to the House select committee ...
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Mark Meadows complies with DOJ subpoena
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GOP Lawmaker Offers Most Ridiculous Take Yet On Not Prosecuting Trump: Apparently Trump, whose supporters chanted "Lock her up!" for years, would not have done ...
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GOP Lawmaker Offers Most Ridiculous Take Yet On Not Prosecuting Trump
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Trump Pushed DOJ To ‘Just Say The Election Was Corrupt,’ Says Former Top Official
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Trump Pushed DOJ To ‘Just Say The Election Was Corrupt,’ Says Former Top ...
Quick Glance: Trump to a Justice Department official: "Just say the"
  • The House committee's note read, "Just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen."

  • On Thursday, the January 6 committee revealed scans of notes taken by Richard Donoghue, the acting deputy attorney general during Trump's final days in office.

  • One note, labeled Republican Rep.

  • "That's an exact quote from the president, yes," Donoghue said.
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Albuquerque Police Tell Muslim Community To Be 'Vigilant' Amid Series Of Murders: Police are searching for the shooter, or shooters, believed to be responsible ...
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Albuquerque Police Tell Muslim Community To Be 'Vigilant' Amid Series Of ...
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Jordan Klepper Quizzes Trump Fans About Jan. 6, And It Goes Just As You'd Expect: "For almost everyone here, insurrectioning was a non-issue. It was the hearings ...
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Jordan Klepper Quizzes Trump Fans About Jan. 6, And It Goes Just As You'd ...
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Ex-Trump Adviser Steve Bannon Charged With Contempt Of Congress: The former White House strategist was indicted for refusing to comply with a House subpoena.
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Ex-Trump Adviser Steve Bannon Charged With Contempt Of Congress
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Ex-Trump Adviser Steve Bannon Charged With Contempt Of Congress: The former White House strategist was indicted for refusing to comply with a House subpoena.
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Ex-Trump Adviser Steve Bannon Charged With Contempt Of Congress
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Lisa Page sues DOJ and FBI over release of her text messages : The former FBI attorney says the agencies violated her right to privacy.
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Lisa Page sues DOJ and FBI over release of her text messages