Former President Donald Trump has submitted a memo detailing plans to sue the Department of Justice (DOJ) for $100 million in damages over the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago property in 2022, claiming that it was conducted in an illegal manner. The administrative claim was submitted Aug. 7 under the Federal Tort Claims Act, which […]
Special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors asked the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case in Florida on Friday to issue a gag order following remarks he made about the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago estate. In a filing on Friday, prosecutors asked Judge Aileen Cannon to modify the conditions of President Trump’s […]
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday responded to claims about FBI agents being authorized to use deadly force during the search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in 2022. In response to the FBI development, which was revealed in court documents this week, President Trump’s campaign said in an alert that the Department of […]
Newly released documents reveal that FBI and DOJ agents were prepared for potential U.S. Secret Service resistance during the raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. The documents included a statement on the use of deadly force, which quoted government policy in stating that “law enforcement officers of the Department of Justice (DOJ) may […]
The FBI responded to claims that its agents were armed and were authorized to use deadly force during a search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in 2022. The law enforcement bureau told media outlets that the FBI followed standard protocol, including “a standard policy statement limiting the use of deadly force.” “The FBI […]
Additional documents marked as “classified” were discovered in former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home by his lawyers after the FBI completed its search of his southern Florida estate in 2022, newly unsealed court filings state. The documents marked as classified were recovered from President Trump’s bedroom at the estate approximately four months after the initial […]
FBI agents executing a search warrant at former President Donald Trump’s home in 2022 prepared for the possibility U.S. Secret Service agents resisted the agents, according to newly unsealed court documents. An operations plan for the raid of Mar-a-Lago in southern Florida stated that should President Trump arrive at Mar-a-Lago during the period when agents […]
Court filings newly unsealed on Monday in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case include emails between National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) officials, the Biden White House, and the Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding former President Donald Trump’s presidential records. The trove of unsealed filings also revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) code name […]
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team is pushing to keep the jury from examining the Presidential Records Act in former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case. NTD spoke to contributor Mike Leon, who is the director of policy and strategy at the Free and Equal Elections Foundation and the host of the “Can We Please Talk?” […]
FORT PIERCE, Fla.—Roughly 24 hours after a Georgia judge dropped some of the charges filed against him there, former President Donald Trump’s attorneys will argue in a Florida court that the federal classified documents case should be thrown out. President Trump on March 14 arrived at the courthouse to appear before U.S. District Judge Aileen […]
Attorneys for former President Donald Trump on Thursday argued in court that his Florida classified documents case should dismissed because he has presidential immunity and should be shielded from prosecution. In four motions to dismiss the indictment to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, his lawyers wrote that the case should be dismissed and he should […]
A conservative legal advocacy group has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice, alleging a top DOJ official involved in the 2022 raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home had an improper bias against the former president and should have recused himself. America First Legal (AFL), an organization founded by former senior […]
The federal judge overseeing the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump rejected a request from federal special prosecutor Jack Smith’s request to force the former president to reveal a portion of his legal strategy. Several weeks ago, Mr. Smith’s team attempted to compel the former president to disclose to the prosecutors whether he […]
Former President Donald Trump on Sunday refuted reports that he spoke about confidential information with an Australian billionaire on Truth Social, after the story was amplified by coverage by The New York Times. “The Failing New York Times story, leaked by Deranged Jack Smith and the Biden “Political Opponent Abuser” DOJ, about a red haired […]
Former President Donald Trump on Friday pleaded not guilty to three new felony charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith in a superseding indictment in a case that accuses the former president of mishandling classified documents. In an Aug. 4 court filing viewed by The Epoch Times, Mr. Trump confirmed he had received a copy […]
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team made a startling admission in its case against former President Donald Trump, acknowledging in a new court filing that it failed to turn over all evidence to Mr. Trump’s legal team as required by law while falsely claiming it had. Mr. Smith’s team said in a July 31 court filing […]
An employee of former President Donald Trump appeared in a Miami courtroom on July 31, facing accusations that he conspired to obstruct justice and lied to investigators probing Mr. Trump’s handling of classified documents. Carlos De Oliveira, the 56-year-old property manager at Mr. Trump’s Florida estate, became the third defendant in the case last week. […]
A federal judge in former president Donald Trump’s presidential records case has denied prosecutors’ request for a highly restrictive order governing how defense lawyers can share classified information with their clients in this case. In a comment posted to the federal courts records system on July 19, a day after a pretrial conference in the […]
The Justice Department released more of the affidavit for a search warrant for Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate (pdf) on Wednesday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart announced Wednesday in his ruling that additional parts of the document could be unsealed. Multiple media organizations had requested the entire document be unsealed, but Mr. Reinhart, a magistrate judge for […]
More portions of the federal government’s search warrant affidavit for Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home can now be unsealed, ruled a judge in connection to the former president’s classified documents case. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart wrote Wednesday that more sealed parts of the affidavit that was used in the FBI raid in August 2022 “should be […]
