{"id":1623349,"date":"2022-08-26T13:34:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T17:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1623349"},"modified":"2022-08-26T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T17:34:21","slug":"justice-department-affidavit-there-was-probable-cause-before-fbi-mar-a-lago-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-affidavit-there-was-probable-cause-before-fbi-mar-a-lago-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department Affidavit: There Was \u2018Probable Cause\u2019 Before FBI Mar-a-Lago Search"},"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%2Fjustice-department-affidavit-there-was-probable-cause-before-fbi-mar-a-lago-search%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=1623349&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>Department of Justice prosecutors argued that they believe there was \u201cprobable cause\u201d that allegedly classified documents and materials were kept at former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s Florida home before the unprecedented FBI raid on Aug. 8, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-affidavit\">affidavit<\/a> released Friday shows.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854\/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854.102.1.pdf\">heavily redacted section (pdf)<\/a> of the affidavit, Department of Justice prosecutors asserted that \u201cthere is probable cause to believe that documents containing classified ND and presidential records remain at the premises,\u201d referring to Mar-a-Lago. And because of the redactions, it\u2019s unclear what allegedly classified documents and presidential records were being kept there and why the Department of Justice believed it is necessary to raid a former president\u2019s home for those materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccordingly, this affidavit seeks authorization to search the \u201945 Office\u2019 and all storage rooms and\u00a0any other rooms or locations where boxes or records may be stored within the PREMISES,\u201d the legal document stated.<\/p>\n<p>It added: \u201cThe PREMISES is currently closed to club members for the summer; however, as specified in Attachment A, if at the time of the search, there are areas of the PREMISES being occupied, rented, or used by third parties, and not otherwise used or available to be used by FPOTUS and his staff, the search would not include such areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who unsealed the affidavit, approved a search warrant for Trump\u2019s property earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Former White House aide Kash Patel recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/ex-white-house-aide-trumps-declassified-documents-had-to-do-with-russiagate_4678648.html\">revealed<\/a> that the allegedly classified materials that were taken had to do with the FBI\u2019s 2016 Crossfire Hurricane investigation that ultimately turned up no evidence to support allegations that Trump colluded with the Russian government to win that year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bottom line was he said this information has to get out to the American public,\u201d Patel told The Wall Street Journal. Patel said he didn\u2019t know<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Justice prosecutors argued that they believe there was \u201cprobable cause\u201d that allegedly classified documents and materials were kept at former President Donald Trump\u2019s Florida home before the unprecedented FBI raid on Aug. 8, an affidavit released Friday shows. In a heavily redacted section (pdf) of the affidavit, Department of Justice prosecutors asserted that [\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-1623349","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\/1623349","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=1623349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623349\/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=1623349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}