August 17, 2022

Trump and the FBI

“The Justice Department on Monday rebuffed efforts to make public the affidavit supporting the search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s estate in Florida, saying the investigation ‘implicates highly classified material’ and the document contains sensitive information about witnesses… Trump, in a Truth Social post early Tuesday, called for the release of the unredacted affidavit in the interest of transparency…

“A property receipt unsealed Friday showed the FBI seized 11 sets of classified documents… The search warrant, also unsealed Friday, said federal agents were investigating potential violations of three different federal laws, including one that governs gathering, transmitting or losing defense information under the Espionage Act. The other statutes address the concealment, mutilation or removal of records and the destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations.” AP News

Here’s our prior coverage of the search. The Flip Side

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From the Right

The right calls for more transparency, and argues that the evidence so far doesn’t indicate any threat to national security.

From the Left

The left worries about the potential threat to national security and other US interests.

The left worries about the potential threat to national security and other US interests.

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