F.B.I. Raids Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate

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Not for me it's not, that alone is worth the chaos of the Trump years to me, and they're just getting started with the rolling back of the regulatory state, I hope Chevron deference is next on the chopping block.

If this board still exists in a few decades, why don't we check back in with each other and assess how it actually played out.

What are your dire predictions here? Keep in mind I really don't care about abortion and think most issues not explicitly laid out in the Constitution are better handled at the state level.

If you’re going to play that game, from my seat, Trump was the worst president ever. Taxes up by thousands, environmental disasters affecting my life, my husband’s company dealt a death blow by tariffs, and a Supreme Court that is setting back women’s rights.

The originalist Supreme Court is going to be worse for you than you realize.

And your tax savings, for those of you who got them? Set to expire by 2025.

Master of illusion.

And the circus soap opera was detrimental.

I was demonstrating what mattered to me at the time, as opposed to getting caught up in soap opera melodrama. Things were better for me during the Trump administration, than during the Obama or Biden administration. As for the Supreme Court, I'm pro-life. As for environmental disasters, they're still happening.

And my life got worse in the Trump years. In clear and measurable ways. No drama.

All this desperation and grasping at straws is entertaining.

All many of us cared about was if he was getting the job done. And he was as far as I was concerned. Probably one of the reasons why I'm not emotionally wrapped up in Trump, is because all I was interested in was the business end. I paid little attention to the circus soap opera surrounding it.

The federal magistrate judge who approved the Mar-a-Lago search warrant will hold a hearing Thursday at the court in Florida to discuss requests to unseal investigators' probable cause affidavit, which the Justice Department has opposed releasing.

"Disclosure of the government's affidavit at this stage would also likely chill future cooperation by witnesses whose assistance may be sought as this investigation progresses, as well as in other high-profile investigations," the Justice Department wrote. "The fact that this investigation implicates highly classified materials further underscores the need to protect the integrity of the investigation and exacerbates the potential harm if information is disclosed to the public prematurely or improperly."

Media organizations, including CNN, had asked for the affidavit to be unsealed after the search last week at Trump's Palm Beach, Florida, club and residence.

The announcement of Thursday's hearing came hours before two people briefed on the matter said told CNN that the FBI interviewed former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and his former deputy Patrick Philbin earlier this year as part of the investigation into federal records taken to Trump's Palm Beach home.

The two are the most senior former Trump officials interviewed in what is now a criminal investigation of possible mishandling of classified information and obstruction. The pair are among a group of former Trump aides whom the FBI interviewed after the criminal probe got underway this spring, the people briefed on the matter said.

The DOJ said details in the affidavit that lay out the argument that investigators made to Federal Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart explaining the probable cause it had to search Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate last week. The search, documents show, was an evidence-gathering step in a national security investigation about presidential records at Mar-a-Lago. Trump owns the sprawling estate, and it is his primary residence as well as a members-only club and resort.

The FBI returned three passports to Trump's lawyers after they were inadvertently seized in last week's search. The FBI said Monday night in response to questions about the passports that it follows set procedures authorized by the courts and returns items not needed for law enforcement purposes.

During an appearance on Fox on Monday night, Trump's attorney Lindsey Halligan just said that investigators already gave the passports back. "They gave them to his attorneys today, so he'll have them soon," Halligan said to Fox's Sean Hannity.

The communication makes clear the passport seizure was a standard part of the search that was resolved quickly, and not a punitive step taken by the Justice Department.

Michael Cohen figures trump is going to use ghouliani as his bogo scapegoat for both mar-a-lago and the Georgia cases.



You mean by his supporters trying to pretend he isn't guilty of numerous serious crimes and going down for them? Indeed, it is! :ketchup chips: