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(LifeSiteNews) — The federal magistrate judge who authorized the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s residence had left his job as an assistant U.S. attorney years before to represent accomplices in Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 sex trafficking case.
Trump attorney Christina Bobb confirmed to POLITICO on Tuesday that Judge Bruce Reinhart “signed off on the warrant” green-lighting the FBI’s Monday raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, which many commentators have decried as a “weaponization” of the Department of Justice for political purposes.
The Miami Herald reported in 2019 that Reinhart had resigned his post as assistant U.S. attorney in the very South Florida office that was prosecuting Epstein, only to legally defend accused accomplices of Epstein days after his “defection.”
The news outlet called the move “one of many highly unusual turns” in the 2008 case that culminated in a non-prosecution agreement under which Epstein and four named co-conspirators were granted immunity from all federal charges.
At the time,
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