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Judge officially refuses to seal entire Trump search warrant affidavit

2022-08-24T17:00:57+00:00
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  • A federal judge has suggested he could unseal portions of the search warrant affidavit for Trump’s property.
  • The decision was announced on Monday.
  • The government did not justify why the search warrant affidavit had to be kept sealed, the judge said.

On Monday, a federal judge in Florida formally denied the Justice Department’s request to keep an affidavit supporting the August 8 search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property completely sealed, according to the New York Post.

In his 13-page ruling, U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart concluded that the government had not justified «keeping the affidavit secret» because of «intense public and historic interest in an unprecedented search of a former President’s residence.»

Judge refuses to keep the entire search warrant on Trump’s house sealed

They refuse to keep the search warrant on Trump's house sealed

Following a hearing last week, Reinhart, who signed Mar-a-Lago’s initial search warrant earlier this month, gave the government until noon Thursday to submit proposed redactions to the affidavit, the NY Post reported.

The Justice Department’s top counterintelligence official, Jay Bratt, had argued that releasing the search warrant affidavit in its entirety would «provide a roadmap for the investigation» and allow «amateur sleuths on the internet» to identify key witnesses.

The risk of disclosing the entire search warrant affidavit

The risk of disclosing the entire search warrant affidavit

«This is a volatile situation with respect to this search across the political spectrum — but on one side in particular,» Bratt told the judge. «The government is very concerned about the safety of the witnesses in these cases and the impact of all the attention on these witnesses on other witnesses.»

The media, including the three major television networks, the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and CNN, had tried to make public the affidavit of the search warrant against the mansion of former President Donald Trump, said the New York Post.

This is a developing story…

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