Thu Aug 25, 2022 – 8:14 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the FBI to release the search warrant affidavit used in the August 8 raid on former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Florida home. The move comes after Trump filed a separate lawsuit against the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday in a bid to obtain an inventory and audit of the items taken during the unprecedented raid.
Federal Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ordered the release of a redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit by 12 p.m. Friday.
In the order, Reinhart said the federal government must release the affidavit but explained it “has met its burden of showing a compelling reason/good cause” to redact parts of the document that “would reveal the identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents, and uncharged parties, the investigation’s strategy, direction, scope, sources, and methods, and grand jury information.”
Judge Reinhart had previously signed off on the search warrant itself, and later ordered the document be unsealed after a DOJ filing.
BREAKING: Judge orders release of redacted Mar-a-Lago search warrant by Friday noon https://t.co/S25mWvanlS
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