{"id":1611140,"date":"2022-08-17T16:03:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T20:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1611140"},"modified":"2022-08-17T16:03:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T20:03:48","slug":"ex-fbi-official-nobody-in-federal-government-wants-to-unseal-trump-affidavit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-fbi-official-nobody-in-federal-government-wants-to-unseal-trump-affidavit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-FBI Official: Nobody in Federal Government \u2018Wants to Unseal\u2019 Trump Affidavit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-fbi-official-nobody-in-federal-government-wants-to-unseal-trump-affidavit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1611140&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A lawyer representing former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> and a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fbi\">FBI<\/a> official both expressed doubts that the affidavit used to seek an FBI search warrant for last week\u2019s Mar-a-Lago raid will be unsealed by a judge on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anybody wants to unseal this thing inside the government,\u201d Chris Swecker, a former assistant director of the FBI, told Fox News on Wednesday, adding that he doubts \u201cvery seriously you\u2019re going to see this unsealed tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former official was making reference to a hearing that was scheduled by U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart for Thursday about whether the affidavit should be unsealed. The Department of Justice on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-administration-urges-court-to-keep-trump-search-affidavit-sealed_4666445.html\">filed court papers<\/a> arguing that it should not because releasing it to the public will damage their investigation.<\/p>\n<p>But former Trump and other Republicans argue it should be released because it would show why the FBI took the unprecedented and extraordinary step of raiding the home of a former president and possible 2024 candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Revealing the affidavit, they argue, would provide more insight into what the Department of Justice is trying to investigate and lay out reasons for why the raid was carried out.\u00a0On Aug. 12, Reinhart issued an order to unseal the FBI search warrant and property receipt.<\/p>\n<p> Lawyer\u2019s Response <\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for Trump, Alina Habba, echoed Swecker\u2019s assertion that it appears unlikely the judge will unseal the affidavit on Thursday during a recent Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/alina-habba-believe-judge-reveal-affidavit\">interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJudge Reinhart is the same magistrate judge that recused himself from my Hillary [Clinton] case about a month ago. He is definitely not going to be a friendly judge necessarily. I would say it was highly unlikely,\u201d Habba said, noting that the \u201cDOJ is already saying that they do not want us to see what was in the affidavit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsually, that\u2019s to protect<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lawyer representing former President Donald Trump and a former FBI official both expressed doubts that the affidavit used to seek an FBI search warrant for last week\u2019s Mar-a-Lago raid will be unsealed by a judge on Thursday. \u201cI don\u2019t think anybody wants to unseal this thing inside the government,\u201d Chris Swecker, a former assistant [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}