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After the suspicious Monday FBI Raid on Mar-A-Lago, the Florida home of President Donald J. Trump, the Department of Justice (DOJ), led by Democrat Attorney General Merrick Garland, would like to stay quiet about their motivations for such a horribly unprecedented and shocking move against the Democrat-RINOs political opponent.
And the Florida Magistrate who oversees the legal issues on the FBI raid and on the secretary of the warrant, in this case, has already admitted he has a bias in Trump cases after posting on social media that he believes disparaging things about Trump’s character.
We don’t know where the federal judge is in this case.
And it all happens at a time that FBI Whistleblowers have come forward about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which implicates major corruption at many levels of DC.
Reports are that between 30 and 100 FBI agents descended on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in a probe, ransacked the home, including Melania’s personal clothing, and it was all based on whether he took classified records with him upon leaving the White House.
The Democrat DOJ doesn’t believe they have to be transparent about what led up to the investigation of Trump’s belongings and the seizure of his private property. The agency has wanted to keep the warrant sealed and private- and away from the public’s scrutiny.
Of interest to many is the reasoning behind bringing a safe cracker to Trump’s home and breaking into his safe. The media has seen the warrant at this time. The DOJ has refused to answer questions about the raid.
However, the DOJ got some bad news as “they are ordered to UNSEAL warrant FBI used to search Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home after son Eric Trump told the media that FBI agents refused to provide a copy at the site the day of the raid” the Daily Mail reported on Wednesday.
Quickly after the suspicious FBI raid, Republicans demand an explanation for the secrecy amid rising anger by Republicans and Independents.
Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who allegedly approved the FBI raid, ordered the DOJ to file a response to motions to unseal the warrant by Monday.
Reinhart made sure to give the DOJ some wiggle room, however, adding that the response may be redacted ‘as necessary to avoid disclosing matters already under seal.’
Republicans and media are also demanding answers on the probable cause for the search in the first place.
The Daily Mail reported:
The Department of Justice was ordered to respond to motions to unseal the warrant used in the FBI’s raid of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on Wednesday.
The order follows revelations from the former president’s son Eric Trump in an interview that the FBI did not hand over a copy of the warrant to a lawyer on the Florida property at the time of the raid.
Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who allegedly signed and approved the unprecedented search, said the DOJ must file by Monday a response to motions to unseal the document from the Albany Times Union and conservative group Judicial Watch.
Appointed to his current position in 2018, Reinhart, recused himself in June from a lawsuit between Trump and Hillary Clinton because of ‘personal bias.’
At the time, Trump was suing Clinton, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and other political entities for promoting stories alleging he had colluded with Russia during the 2016 campaign.
On Monday, dozens of FBI agents descended on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as part of a probe into whether he took classified records with him upon leaving the White House.
The raid immediately led to intense backlash from Republicans and continues to face questions from the right over whether it was conducted properly.
‘Biden’s DOJ obtained the warrant to raid President Trump’s home,’ Ohio Representative Jim Jordan lamented in a Wednesday tweet. ‘That’s the same DOJ that approved the use of the Patriot Act to spy on parents protesting at school board meetings.’
‘They’re weaponizing government to intimidate their critics!’ the Trump ally added.
GOP Representative August Pfluger from Texas demanded answers in a tweet, saying: ’48 hours and still nothing from the FBI and DOJ on the raid of President Trump’s home.’
‘The country has been left to speculate on this extreme action. How is this serving justice?’ he questioned.
Judge Reinhart cited in his June 22 recusal part of the U.S. code requiring magistrate judges to disqualify themselves from cases if they have ‘personal bias or prejudice concerning a party, or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding.’
Reinhart did not specify whether his personal bias was toward Trump, Clinton, or any of the dozens of defendants in the lawsuit.
The judge also has some connections to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In 2008, Reinhart vacated his post as an assistant U.S. attorney and the next day started representing some of Epstein’s employees. Two of the accusers filed a lawsuit accusing Reinhart of leaving the Justice Department to give Epstein inside information.
Reinhart denied the allegations in 2018, but shortly after his connections to Epstein went viral, the U.S. Court for the Southern District of Florida removed the judge from its website.
Source: The Republic Brief