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Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant Travesty

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DOJ UNSEALS MAR-A-LAGO SEARCH WARRANT

The WARRANT THAT AUTHORIZED THE SEARCH
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of
former President Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago was released
today following our COURT FILING
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seeking
release of all FBI warrant materials.

We’re pleased that our legal pressure forced the partial release of
warrant materials about the Biden administration’s political raid on
the home of former President Trump. We expect and demand the
underlying warrant affidavit and other materials be immediately
disclosed.

On August 9, we filed a motion asking the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of Florida to unseal as soon as possible the search
warrant materials used by the FBI to raid the Florida home (_U.S. V.
SEALED SEARCH WARRANT
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(NO.
9:22-MJ-08332)).

The Justice Department agreed that the warrant should be released in
its FILING
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The government hereby requests that the Court unseal the Notice of
Filing and its attachment (Docket Entry 17), absent objection by
former President Trump. The attachment to that Notice consists of:

* The search warrant signed and approved by the Court on August 5,
2022, including Attachments A and B; and
* The redacted Property Receipt listing items seized pursuant to the
search, filed with the Court on August 11, 2022

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The press and the public enjoy a qualified right of access to criminal
and judicial proceedings and the judicial records filed therein.

Our legal pressure forced an important first step by the Biden Justice
Department to disclose ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND’S ROLE
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in
the abusive Trump raid.

Initially, the _Albany Times Union
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and
the _New York Times
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joined
us in filing for the unsealing of the warrant by filing an amicus
letter and motion respectively. Other interests later joined in the
effort.

Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart had ORDERED
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U.S. Department of Justice to file a response to Judicial Watch’s
Motion to Unseal the warrant and supporting materials behind the FBI
raid of President Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago by 5p.m. on
August 15, 2022.

Due to multiple organizations filing to unseal the warrant, Judge
Reinhart ordered that, “To avoid the need for individualized orders
on any future motion(s) to unseal, it is ORDERED that the Government
shall file an omnibus response to all motions to unseal …”

Yesterday, President Trump issued a PUBLIC STATEMENT
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“ENCOURAGING
the immediate release of those documents.”

Our August 9 motion stated:

Judicial Watch is investigating the potential politicization of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice and
whether the FBI and the Justice Department are abusing their law
enforcement powers to harass a likely future political opponent of
President Biden.

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The public has an urgent and substantial interest in understanding the
predicate for the execution of the unprecedented search warrant of the
private residence of a former president and likely future political
opponent…. [N]o official explanation or information has been
released about the search. As of the filing of this motion, the public
record consists solely of speculation and inuendo. In short, the
historical presumption of access to warrant materials vastly outweighs
any interest the government may have in keeping the materials under
seal.

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Given the political context, and the highly unusual action of
executing a search warrant at the residence of a former President and
likely future political opponent, it is essential that the public
understands as soon as possible the basis for the government’s
action. Any government interest in securing the identities of
witnesses and confidential sources, if any, may be addressed by
appropriate redactions from the search warrant affidavit.

The U.S. Constitution and federal law give unreviewable authority to
President Trump to take whatever records he wishes at the end of his
presidency. The Biden administration’s dishonest depiction of
personal records of President Trump it illicitly seized during the
raid as “classified” is further demonstration that the raid was a
brazen act of raw political abuse.

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES FOR ‘RUSSIA HOAX’ RECORDS TRUMP ORDERED
RELEASED

The Obama-Biden administrations and Deep State spying on Trump and his
associates is the worst government corruption scandal in American
history. And to make matters worse, the Biden DOJ simply refuses to
release smoking gun documents about this corruption that the American
people have an absolute right to see!

We sued the Department of Justice for records President Trump ordered
declassified and released the day before he left office. The records
relate to “Crossfire Hurricane,” the controversial spy operation
against President Trump, his 2016 presidential campaign, and other
Trump associates, and have yet to be made public by the Biden
Administration (_Judicial Watch, Inc. v U.S. Department of Justice_
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1:22-cv-02264)).

We filed suit against the DOJ after it failed to respond to a February
17, 2022, FOIA request for:

All records regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s
Crossfire Hurricane investigation that were provided to the White
House by the Department of Justice on or about December 30, 2020. For
purposes of clarification, the records sought are those described in a
January 19, 2021 Presidential Memorandum
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All records of communication between any official or employee of the
Department of Justice and any official or employee of any other
branch, department, agency, or office of the federal government
regarding the declassification and release of the records described in
part one of this request.

Trump’s memo authorized the declassification and release of the
records:

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the
laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct the following:

Section 1. Declassification and Release. At my request, on December
30, 2020, the Department of Justice provided the White House with a
binder of materials related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s
Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Portions of the documents in the
binder have remained classified and have not been released to the
Congress or the public. I requested the documents so that a
declassification review could be performed and so I could determine to
what extent materials in the binder should be released in unclassified
form.

I determined that the materials in that binder should be declassified
to the maximum extent possible. In response, and as part of the
iterative process of the declassification review, under a cover letter
dated January 17, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigation noted its
continuing objection to any further declassification of the materials
in the binder and also, on the basis of a review that included
Intelligence Community equities, identified the passages that it
believed it was most crucial to keep from public disclosure. I have
determined to accept the redactions proposed for continued
classification by the FBI in that January 17 submission.

I hereby declassify the remaining materials in the binder. This is
my final determination under the declassification review and I have
directed the Attorney General to implement the redactions proposed in
the FBI’s January 17 submission and return to the White House an
appropriately redacted copy.

My decision to declassify materials within the binder is subject to
the limits identified above and does not extend to materials that must
be protected from disclosure pursuant to orders of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court and does not require the disclosure of
certain personally identifiable information or any other materials
that must be protected from disclosure under applicable law.
Accordingly, at my direction, the Attorney General has conducted an
appropriate review to ensure that materials provided in the binder may
be disclosed by the White House in accordance with applicable law.

A _Just the News_ REPORT
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details
that the documents include “transcripts of intercepts made by the
FBI of Trump aides, a declassified copy of the final FISA warrant
approved by an intelligence court, and the tasking orders and
debriefings of the two main confidential human sources, Christopher
Steele and Stefan Halper, the bureau used to investigate whether Trump
had colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election.”

We have taken a leading role in uncovering the Obama/Deep State spying
and other abuses targeting Trump and his associates.
In May 2020, our litigation uncovered the “ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION
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(EC)
that officially launched the counterintelligence investigation, termed
“Crossfire Hurricane,” of President Trump’s 2016 presidential
campaign. The document was written by Strzok.

In March 2019 we released HEAVILY REDACTED RECORDS
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from
the DOJ that reveal Bruce Ohr remained in regular contact with former
British spy and Fusion GPS contractor Christopher Steele after Steele
was terminated by the FBI in November 2016 for revealing to the media
his position as an FBI confidential informant.

In August 2019, we uncovered “302” REPORT MATERIAL
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from
FBI interviews with Bruce Ohr, showing that in November 2016, Ohr said
that “reporting on Trump’s ties to Russia were going to the
Clinton Campaign” and “Jon Winer at the U.S. State Department and
the FBI.” The documents also showed that Ohr knew that Fusion
GPS’s Glenn Simpson and others were “talking to Victoria Nuland at
the U.S. State Department.” (A Form 302 is used by FBI agents to
summarize the interviews that they conduct and contains information
from the notes taken during the interview.)

In August 2018, the Justice Department (DOJ) admitted in a COURT
FILING
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that
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court HELD NO HEARINGS
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on
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) spy warrant
applications targeting Carter Page, a former Trump campaign part-time
advisor who was the subject of four controversial FISA WARRANTS
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Our litigation also uncovered the secret FISA warrants that
confirmed the FBI and DOJ misled the courts in withholding the
material information that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC
were behind the “intelligence” used to persuade the courts to
approve the FISA warrants that targeted the Trump team.

Also, in August of that year, we discovered FBI records
about CHRISTOPHER STEELE
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the former British spy, hired with Clinton campaign and Democratic
National Committee funds, who authored the infamous dossier targeting
President Trump during the presidential campaign. The documents show
that Steele was cut off as a “Confidential Human Source” (CHS)
after he disclosed his relationship with the FBI to a third party. The
documents show at least 11 FBI payments to Steele in 2016 and document
that he was admonished for unspecified reasons in February 2016.

CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS A THREAT TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY

It’s not far-fetched to conclude that leftists are deliberately
trying to destroy our country. That could be the end result from the
infusion of Marxist thinking into our military. I explore that
possibility in THIS PIECE
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by the _Washington Examiner_:

The U.S. military is being attacked from within. But instead of rifles
and tanks, the weapon being used to dismantle our armed forces is
progressive ideology.

The latest target is the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, which
was established by GEORGE WASHINGTON
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and is
where our rising generation of Army officers are schooled. Government
watchdog Judicial Watch just uncovered that West Point leadership has
been force-feeding cadets the tenets of CRITICAL RACE THEORY
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a
Marxist theory that stokes racial separatism.

As a result of two Freedom of Information Act lawsuits against the
Department of Defense, Judicial Watch FORCED THE RELEASE
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of more
than 600 pages of PowerPoint slides, handouts, and other curricula
used to educate West Point cadets on topics such as “modern day
slavery in the USA.”

The documents from West Point reveal an assault on cadets in the form
of race-based shaming that paints one race as an oppressor and another
as the victim. In one presentation, for example, titled “‘Race and
the Invisible Hand’: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from
Blue-Collar Jobs,” West Point cadets were taught that white people
are malicious oppressors. The academy’s training materials also
described whiteness as “a standpoint or place from which white
people look at themselves and the rest of society.”

Cadets were directed to “consider how the contemporary issues that
relate to race, gender, and sexuality apply to the army and how they
impact the army officer.” The materials went on to explain that
CRT’s concepts “are essential for future military officers to
understand and fully absorb.” And, if that’s not enough, students
learned the fundamentals of feminist theory and queer theory in a
three-credit social sciences class titled “The Politics of Race,
Gender, and Sexuality.”

CRT is a threat to our nation. It ARISES
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from
the Marxist intellectual framework against which the United States
fought during the Cold War. And although the U.S. defeated the
imminent military threat of Marxist communism in the 1980s, it lives
on beneath the banner of CRT and has infiltrated every aspect of
American society, from cultural institutions to the workplace and now
the U.S. military. Allowing CRT to permeate military education betrays
those who fought and still defend this nation against the Marxist
totalitarian menace.

Unfortunately, the Biden administration has made critical race theory
a primary governing principle. Indeed, Gen. Darryl Williams, the West
Point superintendent responsible for the CRT abuse of the cadets in
his care, was given a fourth star by Biden and PROMOTED
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commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa.

Congress can end this insanity, but the Democratic-controlled congress
is set to push back on any attempts to restrict CRT and its inclusion
in our military’s education programs.

It’s no wonder, then, that the U.S. Army is projected to
fall 10,000 SOLDIERS SHORT THIS FISCAL YEAR
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Why would American patriots join today’s Army, which seems too often
to oppose fundamental American values?

Thankfully, the abuse at West Point is not going unnoticed. West Point
graduates recently SIGNED
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a
letter objecting to the teaching of radical agendas at the academy.
The letter points out that by teaching CRT and hosting progressive
guest speakers, West Point violated U.S. Army regulations by
permitting political activism on campus. And, as the graduates argued,
CRT indoctrination at West Point does more harm than good by placing
race at the forefront of U.S. military education.

The military has long sought to embody Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.’s DREAM
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that
people “not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content
of their character” through its commitment to character and common
purpose. In fact, the military uniform is a great equalizer that has
long united people regardless of color, class, gender, and religion.
But by sowing racial divisions between cadets, CRT fosters resentment
and anger instead of the unity essential for an effective fighting
force.

Studies show that bonds of unity play a significant role on the front
lines. Nearly all soldiers report a “fused” identity with their
battalions akin to the fusion between themselves and their own family
members, according to a University of Oxford STUDY
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When asked which group they felt most fused to, 45% of soldiers chose
their own battalions over their families. Manufacturing political and
racial tensions between cadets in training could create disastrous
consequences for battalion cohesion and Army leadership down the road
— which, from our enemies’ perspective, could be the point.

The ideological attack on West Point cadets (and the woke leadership
in our military’s other ACADEMIES
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must stop. Such blatantly racist, anti-American propaganda not only
threatens to radicalize the next generation of U.S. Army leadership,
but it undermines the purpose of our military: to identify, confront,
and destroy the enemy. If critical race theory persists in the
training of future officers, they will see the enemy as their fellow
American.
LEFTIST ATTACK ON HUNGARY’S PRIME MINISTER VIKTOR ORBAN

As we endure the brazen onslaught of leftist thinking in the United
States, it is reassuring to see that a foreign country, in an unlikely
location, is celebrating freedom and Christian, pro-family values.
Chris Farrell, our director of investigations and research, HAS
WRITTEN
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about
this nation, Hungary, for _The Washington Times_.

The left hates that a popular, conservative government prospers in the
heart of central Europe. When that country cheerfully maintains its
sovereignty and distinct national identity while belonging to the
European Union and NATO, elites bristle. Making things worse, the
country self-identifies as a Christian, pro-family nation, and aided
more than 700,000 refugees fleeing war-torn Ukraine.

Hungary and the reelected Prime Minister Viktor Orban are in the
crosshairs of attack for daring to be Hungarian. “How dare they?”
chuff anointed arbiters of European moral norms, legal debate and
wealth redistribution. “Journalists” and opinion leaders are quick
to join in slinging accusations of various “-isms,” phobias and
mind-reading analyses.

Adding to the indignation of the post-Western, globalists-in-charge is
that Mr. Orban was a keynote speaker at the Conservative Political
Action Conference in Dallas last week. Mr. Orban gave his fearless,
inspiring speech to a packed house, well-received with standing
ovations. Mr. Orban told the Texas crowd that Hungary was the “Lone
Star State of Europe,” while engaging in brutal truth-telling that
Americans almost never hear:

“If somebody has doubts whether progressive liberals and communists
are the same, just ask us, Hungarians. We fought them both, and I can
tell you: They are the same.”

“Obama … tried to force us to change the Fundamental law of
Hungary, and delete Christian and national values from it. Do you get
it? The leading power of the free world wanted to force us to change
our constitution according to a globalist liberal concept. How
bizarre!”

“… Today’s progressives … separate Western Civilization from
its Christian roots once again. They are crossing a line that should
never be crossed. If you separate Western Civilization from its
Judeo-Christian heritage, the worst things in history happen.”

“To sum up: The mother is a woman, the father is a man, and leave
our kids alone. Full stop! End of discussion!”
In the corridors of Brussels and leftist editorial Zoom meetings, the
same objective was made clear: “Mr. Orban and his message must be
stopped!”

But Mr. Orban predicted their reactions: “I can already see
tomorrow’s headlines: ‘Far-right European racist and antisemite
strongman, the Trojan horse of Putin, holds speech at conservative
conference.’” Mr. Orban was correct, because the “go-to”
technique to silence anyone making the left nervous is “the
smear,” straight out of the Saul Alinsky “Rules for Radicals,”
and it often works.

Before CPAC, Mr. Orban made an annual address to the Hungarian
minority in Romania. The Washington Post and their ilk will not give
you Mr. Orban’s full quote with context, too busy saving keystrokes
so they can write “Nazi” and “authoritarian” while advocating
for the EU to withhold funds from Hungary. Here is what Mr. Orban
actually said:

“The internationalist left employs a feint, an ideological ruse: The
claim … that Europe by its very nature is populated by peoples of
mixed race. This is a historical and semantic sleight of hand, because
it conflates two different things. There is a world in which European
peoples are mixed together with those arriving from outside Europe.
Now that is a mixed-race world. And there is our world, where people
from within Europe mix with one another, move around, work and
relocate. So, for example, in the Carpathian Basin we are not
mixed-race: We are simply a mixture of peoples living in our own
European homeland. And, given a favorable alignment of stars and a
following wind, these peoples merge together in a kind of
Hungaro-Pannonian sauce, creating their own new European culture. This
is why we have always fought: we are willing to mix with one another,
but we do not want to become peoples of mixed-race. This is why we
fought at Nandorfehervar/Belgrade, this is why we stopped the Turks at
Vienna, and … in still older times — the French stopped the Arabs
at Poitiers.”

Here is the essence of Mr. Orban’s statement: Europeans are from
Europe; Turks and Arabs are from their own homelands. Fundamentally,
that’s it. Various peoples are indigenous to their regions with
distinct identities, cultures, history, languages, religions. Mr.
Orban was simply advocating for the Magyar people. They are allowed to
have a home and identity and hand down their heritage through
generations. France and Germany are free to make their own decisions
and value their own identity, culture, history, language and religion
— or not.

Self-determination is the freedom to choose without external
compulsion — the power of a nation to decide how it will be governed
without the influence of another country. The United Nations Charter
guarantees the right to self-determination in the framework of
international law and diplomacy.

Now is the time to consider how a country like Hungary can make
choices to advance its own interests — based on faith, family,
history, culture and tradition — without the threat of compulsion or
intimidation, or subjection to false claims of racism and bigotry as a
sleazy political trick.
Until next week …

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