The Democratic state prosecutor who Florida GOP Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-on-education-florida-is-the-place-where-woke-goes-to-die/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> suspended allegedly made several taxpayer-funder trips to attend events held by an activist group featuring some of the most famous radical Left district attorneys in the country, according to a report.
The <a href="https://www.theflstandard.com/andrew-warren-used-taxpayer-money-for-activist-agenda/">Florida Standard</a> reported that it obtained records through the Freedom of Information Act confirming a source a sources&#8217; allegation that Andrew Warren used Florida taxpayer money to fund meetings and events that involved trips across the U.S. from 2017 to 2022. The records, which were not posted online, allegedly show Warren traveled to events held by the group Fair and Just Prosecutions in Seattle in July 2017, Boston in September 2017, New York in August 2018, Houston in December 2018, New York in September 2021, and Washington D.C. in May 2022.
When asked about this fact at a press conference at which he spoke of his lawsuit targeting DeSantis, Warren replied, “If your question isn’t about the lawsuit I’m not taking the question.”
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JUST IN: suspended Soros-backed prosecutor Andrew Warren refuses to answer questions about traveling to left-wing political events on Florida taxpayers’ dime <a href="https://t.co/kDKMjZUVmf">pic.twitter.com/kDKMjZUVmf</a>
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Fair and Just Prosecutions boasts on its <a href="https://fairandjustprosecution.org/meet-the-movement/">website</a>, “With communities across the nation reimagining public safety and calling for an end to mass incarceration, a new generation of elected prosecutors has emerged with a powerful vision to transform the criminal legal system.”
Some of the notable left-wing district attorneys who are <a href="https://fairandjustprosecution.org/meet-the-movement/">members</a> of the group include prosecutors like Chesa Boudin, Kim Foxx of Cook County, Illinois, Marilyn Mosby of Baltimore, Maryland, Larry Krasner of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and George Gascon of Los Angeles County, California.
“State Attorneys have a duty to prosecute crimes as defined in Florida law, not to pick and choose which laws to enforce based on his personal agenda,” DeSantis stated earlier this month when he announced his suspension of Warren. “It is my duty to hold Florida’s elected officials to the highest standards for the people of Florida.”
Warren had <a href="https://www.fox13news.com/news/ousted-hillsborough-state-attorney-andrew-warren-to-discuss-his-next-steps-following-suspension">promised</a> not to prosecute anyone who violated the <a style="font-style: inherit;" href="https://www.fox13news.com/news/gov-desantis-signs-15-week-abortion-ban-into-florida-law">state&#8217;s 15-week abortion ban</a> or anyone who provided gender re-assignment surgery for minors.
In his <a href="https://www.flgov.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Executive-Order-22-176.pdf">executive order</a>, DeSantis wrote that Warren “demonstrated his incompetence and willful defiance of his duties as a state attorney as early as June 2021, when he signed a ‘Joint Statement’ with other elected prosecutors in support of gender-transition treatments for children and bathroom usage based on gender identity.”
“Warren has acted as a law unto himself by instituting a policy during his current term of presumptive non-enforcement for certain criminal violations, including trespassing at a business location, disorderly conduct, disorderly intoxication, and prostitution,” he added.
“Warren’s erroneous understanding of his duties recently culminated in his public declaration that he would not enforce criminal laws enacted by the Florida legislature that prohibit providers from performing certain abortions to protect the lives of unborn children,” DeSantis continued, before noting the gruesome process entailed in abortions performed after 15 weeks’ gestation.

TAMPA, FL – August 7: Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew

Woke DA DeSantis Suspended Allegedly Took Taxpayer-Funded Trips To Attend Leftist DA Group Events: Report

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Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> (R-FL) said during Tuesday remarks about the state’s education system that <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a> is “the place where woke goes to die.”
In the wake of social unrest during the summer of 2020, the pace at which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/critical-race-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Race Theory</a> (CRT) and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">radical gender ideology</a> infiltrated government education rapidly increased. DeSantis vowed during a <a href="https://www.wfla.com/news/pasco-county/florida-is-the-place-where-woke-goes-to-die-desantis-says/">press conference</a> about the upcoming school year that Florida would continue to oppose such trends.
“Obviously in the classroom we’ve battled a lot of ideologies. What I’ve said is the state of Florida is the place where woke goes to die,” DeSantis said. “We are not going to let this state descend into some type of woke dumpster fire. We’re going to be following common sense, we’re going to be following facts.”
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DeSantis: &quot;The state of Florida is the place where woke goes to die. We are not going to let this state descend into some kind of woke dumpster fire.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/xcl43VkK69">pic.twitter.com/xcl43VkK69</a>
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The comments come as the United States faces shortage of teachers and support staff. National Education Association President Rebecca Pringle, for example, estimated during an interview with <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-300000-teacher-school-staff-vacancies-nea-president/story?id=88242614">ABC News</a> that the United States lacks 300,000 educators and support staff — the fruition of a “crisis in the number of students who are going into the teaching profession and the number of teachers who are leaving it.” In recent interviews with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unions-complain-of-dire-teacher-shortages-ahead-of-new-school-year-push-for-more-funding">The Daily Wire</a>, however, executives of Christian education companies argued that teachers unions and the educator training pipeline discourage professionals from entering the sector.
“I think these schools of education and the specific way they go about, I don’t think is the right way to do it,” DeSantis continued. “I don’t think these schools have proven to be effective. I think what you do is you get people that have proficiency in core academic disciplines, then you have them go in. But trying to teach them at certain schools of education, I think that’s been overtaken by ideology. I think that’s a turn-off for a lot of people.”
Earlier this year, DeSantis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-signs-parental-notification-bill-shrugs-off-dont-say-gay-uproar">signed</a> parental rights legislation banning classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten to third grade — a move that was opposed by Disney and other corporate interests. In response, DeSantis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-desantis-torches-disney-over-opposition-to-law-banning-sexual-ideology-being-forced-on-young-children">repeatedly vowed</a> that Disney would “never run this state” during his tenure and signed legislation <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shell-companies-and-shady-lawyers-why-did-disney-get-to-govern-itself-in-florida">nixing</a> the Reedy Creek Improvement District — a special governing and tax district that hosts Disney World.
“Our mantra has been, in our schools, to educate kids, not indoctrinate kids,” DeSantis said during the press conference. “Hopefully what we’re doing is saying that teaching is not about learning ‘education in college or university,’ it’s really about having proficiency in subjects, then learning on the ground about how to do it.”
Beyond reforms of government education, homeschooling rates across the nation grew from 5.4% to 11.1% between the periods of April-May 2020 and September-October 2020, according to data from the <a href="https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/03/homeschooling-on-the-rise-during-covid-19-pandemic.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Census Bureau</a>, with 5 million American children receiving their education at home by the summer of 2021. Another report from the <a href="https://www.publiccharters.org/our-work/publications/voting-their-feet-state-level-analysis-public-charter-school-and-district">National Alliance for Public Charter Schools</a> revealed that charter school enrollment saw 7.1% growth during the 2020-2021 school year.
In response to teacher shortages — which are likely also driven by an overall decline in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americans-continue-to-opt-out-of-the-workforce">labor force participation</a> over the past two years — teachers union officials have called for more funding to be directed toward government schools. American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, for example, pointed to “inadequate support and resources” and “subpar compensation” in a July <a href="https://www.aft.org/press-release/aft-unveils-report-teacher-and-school-staff-shortages">press release</a> discussing the shortage.

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DeSantis On Education: ‘Florida Is The Place Where Woke Goes To Die’

DeSantis Says Florida Is 'Where Woke Goes To Die' During Education Remarks

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Law enforcement officials in Florida have launched an investigation into whether security for Rep. Val Demings (D-FL), who is running to try to unseat Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), broke the law by shoving a man to the ground at a political event.
The investigation by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office centers around a video clip <a href="https://floridapolitics.com/archives/547419-video-shows-val-demings-security-pushing-man-to-ground-outside-public-event/">obtained</a> by Florida Politics that shows two men pushing another man during a meet-and-greet event earlier this month. Security blocked the man from entering the public Harry T. &amp; Harriette V. Moore Memorial Park where the event was being held.
The report noted that the man appeared to be a video tracker, which is someone who follows around politicians and asks them tough questions.
“Security officials take potential threats and threatening behavior toward the Chief seriously,” Christian Slater, communications director for Demings campaign, said in a statement to the publication without providing any proof that the man was a threat. “In this instance the individual did not respond to multiple requests to leave and charged at security personnel in pursuit of Chief Demings’ approaching vehicle.”
&#8220;Democrats want to defund the police but holy cow if you film them in public they’ll have their private security pummel you,&#8221; reporter Matthew Foldi tweeted along with footage of the incident.
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Democrats want to defund the police but holy cow if you film them in public they’ll have their private security pummel you…ON CAMERA
Yikes from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FLSEN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FLSEN</a> candidate <a href="https://twitter.com/valdemings?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@valdemings</a> <a href="https://t.co/3OLFJbDoUl">pic.twitter.com/3OLFJbDoUl</a>
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&#8220;Holy crap!!&#8221; Steve Guest, special adviser to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), responded on Twitter. &#8220;Florida Democrat Val Demings’ private security team just beat the crap out of a tracker… and yes, it’s on video. What’s not on video: the vehicle Demings’ campaign claims was approaching.&#8221;
A second clip later emerged that appeared to have been taken after the man was shoved to the ground.
“In corrections I used to balance people like you off their head in the jail,” a security member tells the man who was pushed.
“Except for I don’t do bad things,&#8221; the man responded. &#8220;I’m not one of those people. I’m just doing my job. That’s it. I’ve been good to you guys.”
“Don’t touch me,&#8221; the security guard says. &#8220;Oh my god.”
“I’ve been so good, and y’all are just being ridiculous sometimes,&#8221; the man responded. &#8220;I just want to be even keel.”
“Let’s be even keel right now,&#8221; the security guard said. &#8220;So don’t take it personal, alright.”
“No I’m not,&#8221; the man responded. &#8220;Everything that just happened, we’re good.”
“Going forward don’t take it personal,&#8221; the security guard repeated.
“Take what personal?” the man asked.
“What’s going to happen to you,” the security guard answered.
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Here&#39;s the second part of the scuffle in which one of Val Demmings&#39; security guys tells a video tracker after shoving him to the ground &quot;In corrections, I used to bounce people like you off their head in the jail.” <a href="https://t.co/00fcY1Khbp">pic.twitter.com/00fcY1Khbp</a>
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Former President Donald Trump claimed in a statement Monday afternoon that the federal agents who executed a search warrant at his Florida home last week took his passports.
&#8220;In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three Passports (one expired), along with everything else,&#8221; Trump said in a post on social media.
Federal investigators recovered at least 4 sets of top secret documents, 3 sets of secret documents, and 3 sets of confidential documents during their search, which U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland authorized.
Multiple sources <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/13/us/politics/trump-classified-material-fbi.html">told</a> The New York Times that at least one of Trump’s lawyers signed a written statement to the U.S. Department of Justice earlier this summer that claimed all classified material and boxes in a storage area on the property had been returned to the federal government. Agents searched the storage area and Trump’s office and residence on the property.
The signed declaration, combined with the at least 11 sets of classified documents that were discovered on the property, could mean that either Trump or his legal team potentially lied to federal investigators.
The sections of the U.S. criminal code that were cited on the search warrant indicate the investigation centers around potential violations of the Espionage Act, the unlawful taking of government records, and obstruction of justice related to destroying documents.
Lawyers for Trump&#8217;s former personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, revealed on Monday that Giuliani was the target of a criminal investigation in Georgia over matters related to the 2020 presidential election.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/us/graham-georgia-investigation-trump.html">reported</a> that Fulton County prosecutors had questioned witnesses before a special grand jury about remarks that Giuliani made during appearances in front of state legislative panels the month after the 2020 election.
Giuliani <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rudy-giuliani-medical-procedure-travel-grand-jury-georgia-fulton-county-2022-8?inline-endstory-related-recommendations=">tried</a> to delay having to testify before the special grand jury by saying that a recent medical procedure would prevent him from being able to travel.
However, Willis&#8217; office obtained records showing that he had &#8220;purchased multiple airline tickets with cash, including tickets to Rome, Italy, and Zurich, Switzerland&#8221; for dates that &#8220;were after&#8221; his &#8220;medical procedure.&#8221;
Giuliani is now scheduled to testify Wednesday at a courthouse in Atlanta.
“If these people think he’s going to talk about conversations between him and President Trump, they’re delusional,” Giuliani attorney Robert Costello said.
This report has been updated to include additional information. 
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-issues-subpoenas-or-paid-visits-to-multiple-republican-lawmakers-report">FBI Issues ‘Subpoenas Or Paid Visits’ To Multiple Republican Lawmakers: Report</a>

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New documents related to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi">FBI&#8217;s</a> raid of former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump&#8217;s</a> Florida home do not explicitly mention nuclear weapons secrets, which The Washington Post reported agents were seeking in the Monday search.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Friday unsealed <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854.17.0_6.pdf">unredacted copies</a> of the FBI search warrant and receipts of items taken from Mar-a-Lago Monday during an FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s residence.
Nowhere on the warrant or on the receipts of items taken are “nuclear weapons” explicitly mentioned. The documents, which are relatively undescriptive and mostly avoid specifics, do refer to “top secret” information and say Trump is being investigated in part for potential violations of <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793">18 U.S.C. section 793.</a> This section of the U.S. code deals with “obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation.”
Notably, one of the documents, attachment B, refers to &#8220;information, including communications in any form, regarding the retrieval, storage, or transmission of national defense information or classified material.&#8221;
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-fbi-raided-mar-a-lago-to-search-for-top-secret-documents-on-nuclear-weapons-report-claims">reported</a> Thursday that the unprecedented FBI raid on Trump’s residence was undertaken in part to recover “classified documents relating to nuclear weapons.” WaPo’s sources, which the outlet referred to as “people familiar with the investigation,” did not elaborate on the claim, nor did they say whether the FBI recovered such documents.
The bombshell report sparked controversy online as to why the FBI waited roughly 18 months to recover such records. Speculation also questioned why, if the nature of the documents was so sensitive, the White House did not know about the raid.
“Just to get this straight, we&#8217;re now supposed to believe that the material Trump had stored in his house was nuclear content so sensitive the FBI waited a year and a half to go get it and used the National Archives as a prop to do so?” Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1558100760130363394">tweeted</a>.
National Review editor Rich Lowry <a href="https://twitter.com/RichLowry/status/1558089330861776896">said</a> skeptically: “Given the track record of these people, it better prove to have been the blueprint of hypersonic missile, or something similar.”
Politico hedged in its flagship newsletter, <a href="https://www.politico.com/playbook">Playbook</a>, on Friday morning, while blurbing the WaPo report. The outlet noted that anonymously sourced reports on the former president are often exaggerated or false. “There were few other nuke details in the piece, and we’ve seen enough Trump scandals in the last seven years to know that sometimes potentially explosive allegations from anonymous sources fail to detonate. But Trump himself was conspicuously quiet about the story,” Playbook noted.

Trump Raid Warrant, Receipts Make No Mention Of ‘Nuclear Weapons’

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a> sheriff is slamming a woman who allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a> her pet Chihuahua by drowning the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/animal-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dog</a> in her pool last October.
Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey recently posted a video to social media of a woman holding her dog underwater. Ivey cut the video of the incident, which occurred last fall, but included a clip of him walking suspect Erica Black into jail on charges of animal cruelty. The 32-year-old woman was already being held in jail on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after allegedly stabbing a 68-year-old man twice, SpaceCoastDaily.com <a href="https://spacecoastdaily.com/2022/08/watch-brevard-sheriff-ivey-jails-most-despicable-excuse-for-a-human-being-ive-ever-seen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“This woman, Erica Black, is without question the most despicable excuse for a human being I’ve ever seen in my life,” Ivey <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EML9Mc-xMEM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in the video.
“The video of her drowning her chihuahua is the most horrific thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” he added.
Ivey also pledged to keep Black in his jail for the rest of her life.
“I’m not going to show you the entire video because it is so graphic and so disgusting, it makes me sick,&#8221; Ivey added in the video. &#8220;There’s a special place in hell for this woman, and until she gets there, she’s going to rot in our jail.”
The sheriff even ended his video with a message targeted specifically at Black.
“You know, usually when I’m walking people in, I have something to say to them,&#8221; he said. “I’m disgusted by you.&#8221;
The sheriff&#8217;s office also warned that other potential animal killers will also be taken to the slammer should they attempt to kill their pet on Ivey&#8217;s turf.
&#8220;IF YOU DROWN YOUR DOG IN A POOL SHERIFF IVEY IS GOING TO PERSONALLY WALK YOUR BUTT INTO JAIL!!&#8221; the Brevard County Sheriff&#8217;s office <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=477960094153221&amp;ref=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a Facebook video post.
Florida sheriffs have recently built quite a reputation for themselves as being straight-talking no-nonsense enforcers of the law.
In May, Sheriff Grady Judd in Polk County, Florida, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-are-going-to-shoot-you-graveyard-dead-florida-sheriff-lays-the-hammer-down-on-potential-school-shooters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters, “If you come to a school in this county, armed, we’re going to do our best through either our guardians, our school resource officers, or our school resource deputy sheriffs to eliminate the threat outside of the school before they ever get to the children. We’re trained to do that.”
“This is the last thing you’ll see before we put a bullet through your head if you’re trying to hurt our children,” Judd <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-are-going-to-shoot-you-graveyard-dead-florida-sheriff-lays-the-hammer-down-on-potential-school-shooters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>, while holding a picture of two police officers carrying firearms. “We are going to shoot you graveyard dead if you come onto a campus, with a gun, threatening our children or shooting at us.”
Ivey&#8217;s video message can be seen here:
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‘Special Place In Hell For This Woman’: Florida Sheriff Furious After ‘Despicable Excuse For A Human’ Drowns Chihuahua

Florida Sheriff Furious After 'Despicable Excuse For A Human' Drowns Chihuahua

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Republican Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis">Ron DeSantis&#8217;</a> fiery press secretary has resigned from her state office in order to act as his re-election campaign&#8217;s rapid response director.
&#8220;I am starting a new job on Monday on the governor&#8217;s reelection campaign,&#8221; Christina Pushaw shared in a phone interview with The Daily Wire on Friday afternoon. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to be director of rapid response. So that&#8217;s somewhat similar to what I&#8217;m doing now, except more political, obviously. And it&#8217;ll involve both communications and research, which I&#8217;m really excited about.&#8221;
Pushaw <a href="https://twitter.com/theflstandard/status/1558104117884723200">said Friday</a> that she will resign from her position effective August 12, thanking the governor and his officers for giving her &#8220;latitude to respond to media narratives in direct and often unconventional ways&#8221; and allowing her to &#8220;redefine this role for a leader whose actions speak for themselves.&#8221;
She emphasized that she has full confidence in her successor, Bryan Griffin, who formerly served as her deputy, noting that &#8220;the chance to play even a small part&#8221; in making Florida the &#8220;freest state in these United States,&#8221; as DeSantis has previously said, &#8220;has truly been the opportunity of a lifetime.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, the gloves are off,&#8221; she <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1558104306292760583">tweeted</a> on Friday morning as The Florida Standard broke the news of her switch. Her tweet was a little &#8220;tongue-in-cheek,&#8221; she shared laughingly with The Daily Wire, noting that she does not typically hold back with her responses to the press.
&#8220;Traditionally for a state employee, you don&#8217;t have a lot of latitude,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But I&#8217;ve been really fortunate to have that latitude to respond, to debunk those false narratives for more than a year that I&#8217;ve been here.&#8221;
Now that she will be working on the governor&#8217;s campaign, she&#8217;ll be able to directly respond to whoever wins the Democratic gubernatorial nomination and be &#8220;more direct&#8221; in terms of how she responds to political attacks.
&#8220;I think that is going to be important at this juncture, for the next three months,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Our focus has to be on defeating those who would take Florida off the great path that it&#8217;s been on under this governor.&#8221;
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Pushaw has consistently called out the press for “bad-faith coverage” and “skewed” or biased reporting, using Twitter to expose media narratives or to call out specific reporters who she feels misrepresent the facts.
“They’re afraid of the governor,” Pushaw <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/12/16/desantis-christina-pushaw-florida-trump-liberal-media/">said in a December interview</a> with The Daily Signal. “The left-wing elites, the establishment, and the corporate media are very much afraid of him. And it shows that he’s a good leader, and that he’s doing a good job.”
“I often say I wish I didn’t have to call people out on Twitter or be confrontational,” Pushaw said at the time. “I always try to speak directly with the reporter first and see if I can get all their questions answered and get the information to them that they’re looking for.”
“But the thing is,” she added, “if I do that, and they publish something that’s not true, then I have no choice but to say something direct and publicly about it and to condemn this.”
In her resignation letter, Pushaw described the historic challenges that Floridians have faced. These challenges have included &#8220;protecting the rights of citizens to earn a living, gather to worship and celebrate life&#8217;s milestones, and raise their children free of unconstitutional mandates.&#8221;
It also includes &#8220;ensuring that every student is set up for a lifetime of success with high-quality education — not ideological indoctrination,&#8221; she noted, and &#8220;unleashing economic opportunity and achieving stability at the state level — despite reckless inflationary spending and tax hikes at the federal level.&#8221;
She also emphasized the importance of &#8220;upholding the rule of law and keeping Floridians safe&#8221; as well as &#8220;protecting life, promoting fatherhood, supporting foster and adoptive families, and leading the country in the fight to defend parental rights.&#8221;

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DeSantis Spox Christina Pushaw Heads To His Re-Election Campaign 

2022 Midterms

Christina Pushaw

A famed 26-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/onlyfans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OnlyFans</a> model and social media influencer with more than two million followers has been arrested and charged with second-degree <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">murder</a> in connection to the death of her boyfriend.
Christian &#8220;Toby&#8221; Obumseli, 27, was found stabbed inside a luxury condo in Miami on April 3. His girlfriend, Courtney Clenney, was found with Obumseli.
According to authorities, the &#8220;preliminary investigation determined that both Mr. Obumseli and the female had been involved in a physical altercation.&#8221;
Clenney later ended up in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hawaii">Hawaii</a>, allegedly seeking rehabilitation services for substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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On Wednesday, the Hawaii Police Department assisted in taking Clenney into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service.
The model, who goes by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/courtneytailor/">Courtney Tailor</a> online, was &#8220;arrested on the strength of an arrest warrant issued by Miami-Dade County, Florida, for the offense of murder in the second-degree with a deadly weapon,&#8221; a press release from the department <a href="https://www.hawaiipolice.com/8-10-22-social-media-model-courtney-clenney-arrested">said</a>.
&#8220;Clenney is being held at the Hawai’i Police Department’s East Hawai’i Detention Center pending her initial court appearance in Hilo District Court, tentatively scheduled for Thursday, August 11, 2022,&#8221; authorities added. &#8220;She will eventually be extradited to Florida.&#8221;
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The Florida State Attorney&#8217;s Office on Thursday released elevator surveillance footage of Clenney and Obumseli about a month before the fatal incident.
In the footage, both Clenney and Obumseli put their hands on each other. Clenney, in the clip provided, starts the physical altercation inside the elevator.
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Through her attorney, Frank Prieto, Clenney has claimed she was acting in self-defense during the fatal incident.
&#8220;I&#8217;m completely shocked, especially since we were cooperating with the investigation and offered to voluntarily surrender her if she were charged,&#8221; Prieto <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article264361166.html">told</a> the Miami Herald. &#8220;We look forward to clearing her name in court.&#8221;
The attorney <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/courtney-clenney-murdered-christian-obumseli-domestic-violence-1395922/">told</a> Rolling Stone magazine on Wednesday that “Obumseli attacked her and choked her that evening,&#8221; and that his client &#8220;had no choice but to meet force with force.&#8221;
Clenney was heard on the 911 call saying, “I’m so sorry, baby,&#8221; while Obumseli said he felt like he was dying and was losing feeling in his arms.
Obumseli&#8217;s family says Clenney was not acting in self-defense, denying any allegation that the 27-year-old was violent with his girlfriend of two years.
&#8220;We have no cause to believe that this was a case of self-defense,&#8221; said Karen Egbuna, Obumseli&#8217;s cousin. &#8220;Toby was raised by a very strong family with strong morals, strong values, he does not come from that.&#8221;
Larry Handfield, a lawyer repressing the Obumseli family, has claimed the delay in Clenney&#8217;s arrest is about race.
“We believe it is white privilege, because any other person would’ve been arrested,” Handfield told Rolling Stone in April.
Authorities this week responded to the delay, saying they had to get the evidence in order, and only have one shot to get the case right.

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OnlyFans Model Charged With Stabbing Boyfriend To Death; Authorities Release Elevator Footage

Hawaii

Murder

OnlyFans

Within the last week, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has undertaken two controversial actions and taken <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/04/alleged-bias-in-hunter-biden-probe-deeply-troubling-fbi-director-wray/">inaction</a> on other notable cases, that point to the overt politicization of our nation’s top law enforcement agency. 
On the evening of August 7, the DOJ approved an unprecedented search warrant <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-day-the-fbi-raided-donald-trump">executed</a> by the FBI to search former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-judge-orders-doj-to-respond-to-requests-for-trump-raid-warrant">warrant</a> was reportedly issued for taking home materials at the conclusion of his presidency that were meant for the National Archives, which may have contained classified information. Just three days prior, on August 4, the DOJ filed <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/04/breonna-taylor-shooting-death-four-louisville-cops-face-federal-charges/">civil rights charges</a> against three former and one current Louisville Metro Police officers in the 2020 shooting of Breonna Taylor, who was caught in the crossfire when her boyfriend fired through the door at officers serving a search warrant on her apartment – a case that was presented to a grand jury and declined by local prosecutors and the Kentucky Attorney General when <a href="https://youtu.be/1lbdXJx2CtQ">video</a> emerged showing officers returning fire during the incident. 
For many who have served in the criminal justice system, the way these two cases were pursued, and the timing of them, exposed political conflicts within the justice department that have been suspected since 2013, when thenAttorney General Eric Holder called himself [former President] Barack Obama’s “<a href="https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico44/2013/04/eric-holder-im-still-the-presidents-wingman-160861">wingman</a>”, as opposed to being an impartial arbiter of justice. Nine years later, a myriad of highly political cases pursued by AG <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/garland-asked-about-eric-holders-infamous-obama-wingman-comments-says-hes-not-the-presidents-lawyer">Merrick Garland</a> are calling many Americans to question the integrity of the DOJ and other federal law enforcement agencies. 
“When I was at DOJ, the left screamed about [AGs] Sessions, Gonzalez, and Ashcroft on independence, but now they want the AG to be in lockstep in this board game they are playing – to be on the same page and narrative with the White House,” said <a href="https://rightoncrime.com/about/team/brett-tolman/">Brett Tolman</a>, former United States attorney for the District of Utah. “Fifteen to twenty years ago, something like [a raid on the residence of a former president] would never have happened. This show is important to Democrats, to me it’s one of the most overplayed hands in history.”
To the increasingly polarized Democratic base, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shapiro-were-looking-at-a-political-crisis">Mar-a-Lago raid</a> and Taylor charges are a signal that the Biden Administration is determined to demonstrate their authority over former President Trump and state governments that oppose their views. The pinnacle of this perceived abuse of authority is with the Mar-a-Lago raid, which the White House claimed to have no knowledge of, but Tolman said from first-hand experience as a federal prosecutor, “Attorney General Garland, FBI Director Wray, the Deputy AG, and both the DOJ and FBI liaisons to the White House would have had knowledge of and approve the Mar-a-Lago search warrant application.”
Tolman also addressed the fact that the federal magistrate judge who issued the Mar-a-Lago warrant was an Obama donor and former defense attorney on the Jeffery Epstein human trafficking case, saying that “securing a warrant is one of the few circumstances where judges can be shopped, instead of issued at random.” Adding to speculation that the warrant was politically staged was the fact that FBI agents were sent in wearing tactical body armor, despite the fact that Mar-a-Lago is a sterile environment secured by the U.S. Secret Service. Tolman notes that “in looking at a comparable case, the <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2016/10/31/hillary-clinton-email-scandal-explained/">Hillary Clinton</a> email scandal, no warrants were issued nor agents in tactical gear sent.” This is noteworthy considering the fact that the Clinton and <a href="https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2022/august/credible-whistleblowers-slam-fbi-for-weaponized-and-politicized-tactics-still-no-hunter-biden-indictments">Hunter Biden</a> cases are far clearer in a legal sense. Considering that the president of the United States has the authority to classify and declassify information – Trump was President when the materials in question were removed from the White House.
The Taylor case raises even more questions about politicizing the justice system. According to Tolman, for generations, the DOJ has had a <a href="https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/petite-policy-example-enlightened-prosecutorial-discretion">petite policy</a>, which prevents the agency from prosecuting someone on the same facts and circumstances as a state case. Therefore, when the grand jury declined to indict the officers in Taylor’s death, in the absence of new evidence, the DOJ would normally defer to the state and decline to prosecute as well. Considering there is bodycam footage from various angles showing officers being fired upon through the door of Taylor’s apartment after knocking and announcing themselves on a legally-issued search warrant – the prospect of a conviction in this case does not bode well for the DOJ. 
<h4>Suspicious Timing</h4>
Considering President Biden’s abysmal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-pollster-bidens-sixth-quarter-approval-is-the-lowest-of-any-president-ever-polled">poll numbers</a>, looming recession, and a rise in crime throughout the nation, pundits feel that these legal actions by the DOJ are serving to distract the public into focusing on the January 6 and Black Lives Matter riots, both of which energized the Democratic base. The Mar-a-Lago raid and Taylor charges are the most recent attempt to use the DOJ’s color of <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/justice-politicized-justice-denied-opinion-1660149">authority to rally the Democratic base</a>.  Garland&#8217;s DOJ has recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-department-sues-to-block-idaho-pro-life-law-in-first-suit-since-dobbs-ruling">sued</a> states like Idaho for enacting pro-life laws pursuant to the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade, a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-lawsuit-against-state-texas-challenge-statewide-redistricting-plans">redistricting plan</a> in Texas, voter integrity laws in <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-lawsuit-against-florida-alleging-violations-national-voter">Florida</a> and in <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-lawsuit-against-state-georgia-stop-racially-discriminatory">Georgia</a>, which all have Republican governors. 
At the same time, the DOJ has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/24/politics/nursing-home-deaths-covid-justice-department-no-investigation/index.html">declined to open a federal investigation</a> into the Covid-related deaths at nursing homes in New York, Pennsylvania, California, New Jersey, and Michigan &#8211; where Democratic Governors ordered infected patients be returned to facilities to expose other at-risk residents. The DOJ still has not undertaken any Covid-related investigations, even after the Biden Administration <a href="https://broadandliberty.com/2021/09/01/state-health-officials-under-investigation-appointed/">appointed</a> officials from three of the five states with these deadly policies to senior-ranking roles at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, two of which were under state investigations for their Covid policy at the time of their appointments.
Furthermore, Congress has grilled AG Garland on his October 4, 2021 memorandum directing the FBI Counterterrorism Division to focus on parents expressing anger at local <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/dojs-school-board-violence-memo-204300462.html">school board meetings</a>. Since the memorandum was leaked, exposing collusion with Biden political operatives, AG Garland has received a letter from the Republican minority on the Senate Judiciary committee stating, &#8220;By now involving the FBI&#8217;s Counterterrorism Division in this effort, even if you personally believe that division would never cross a line into silencing criticism of local governments, you have given life to the idea that dissidents are synonymous with terrorists. This is a common tactic of third-world dictatorships, but it should never be FBI practice.&#8221; Had the DOJ taken action against <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/scrap-maps-judges-must-toss-080000292.html">gerrymandering</a> in Democratic states, pursued <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/npr-ripped-for-openly-admitting-big-tech-interference-in-elections">big tech</a> overreach, or conducted a raid on <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hunter-biden-double-standard-on-display-in-wake-of-trump-fbi-raid-gop-says/ar-AA10tGnT">Hunter Biden</a> – these conflicts wouldn’t be so glaring, but they haven’t and the American public is taking notice.
When the criminal justice system is corrupted by politics, it creates a set of circumstances where American citizens’ rights may be violated for no other purpose than political gamesmanship. Make no mistake, charging someone with a crime or searching their home and private belongings are extreme measures to be taken in the interest of public safety. This is why the raid at Mar-a-Lago coming on the same week that the Democratically-controlled Senate passed a bill authorizing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/irs-we-will-absolutely-not-target-everyday-americans-with-new-army-of-agents">87,000 new IRS agents</a> is unsettling to many Americans.
“This is partially about Trump, but mostly a warning to conservatives and non-establishment candidates to not oppose or dissent against the uniparty Regime,” said conservative commentator <a href="https://www.earnthenecklace.com/john-cardillo-facts-know-radio-host/">John Cardillo</a>. “Hatred of Trump is actually hatred of a voter base that would kick the establishment out of office. Tyrants hold onto power at all costs, and are sending a very Stalin-esque message to Americans that it&#8217;s not about who casts the votes, but about who counts the votes.”
Moreover, pundits show concern that increased DOJ politicization may not only be a strategy to energize the Democratic base, but also a tool to stir up a more extreme element on the right side of the aisle. Throughout the 2021-22 midterm primary election season, Democratic campaigns and their Political Action Committee (PAC) supporters have been funding less moderate, Trump-backed, candidates in key <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/shapiro-ad-seeks-to-boost-doug-mastriano-in-pennsylvania-gubernatorial-contest">gubernatorial</a>, senate, and <a href="https://www.allsides.com/news/2022-08-02-0642/michigan-gop-congressman-criticizes-democrats-subsidizing-primary-opponent-s">congressional</a> races – especially in battleground states.  
If the recent Mar-a-Lago raid seemingly <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-the-fbi-search-at-mar-a-lago-could-influence-another-trump-run-for-president/ar-AA10sEGy">strengthened</a> Trump’s resolve to run again in 2024, could that be presenting a weakened Democratic party with a “beatable candidate” to run against instead of a <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/desantis-beats-trump-in-new-gop-poll-for-2024-nominee">seemingly</a> bullet-proof Florida Gov. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-ron-desantis-president-election-campaign-2024-florida-2022-2?op=1">Ron DeSantis</a>? To this, Cardillo opined, “The more strategic Pelosi faction most likely does believe that Trump will turn off independents and non-party-affiliated voters, and is therefore the only beatable GOP candidate in 2024.” Cardillo continued, “I personally believe that DeSantis terrifies them even more because he fundamentally understands how to dismantle institutions, and unlike Trump understands the deep state game as he spent time in Congress.”
Regardless of whether the DOJ’s recent actions were based in overt political coordination with the White House or merely <a href="https://streamyard.com/ddi6z2jsk7">gross mismanagement</a>, the public trust in these institutions that once existed is now gone, and cannot be replaced overnight. “I do believe they&#8217;ll indict Trump before the midterms despite a glaring lack of any criminal behavior,” said Cardillo. “The rule of law is dead. Our justice system is dead. It&#8217;s all about political persecution and it&#8217;s happening in the open thanks to a far left weaponized DOJ and FBI, and far left activist judges.”
Thus, amid the 2022 midterm elections, there is now an increased need for oversight of the DOJ, Department of Homeland Security, Treasury, and other federal law enforcement agencies to get these essential institutions back on track. “When I was U.S. Attorney, I got intense pressure to bring political cases by DOJ and told them to pound sand,” Tolman said. “What we’re left with is not only have they overplayed their hand politically, they’ve done it in a way that’s destroyed the confidence that the public has held in the system for over 200 years – that while mistakes may happen, the rule of law is used fairly.” 
To that, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/biden-pick-to-lead-ice-fits-right-in-with-open-border-agenda-former-acting-ice-director">Tolman recalled a phrase</a> inscribed in the halls of DOJ headquarters in Washington, “The hallmark of fairness in the administration of justice is consistency.” Consistency is a commodity needed now more than ever.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Raid On Mar-A-Lago Tells Us All We Need To Know About The DOJ

Hillary Clinton

Merrick Garland

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi">FBI</a> used knowledge from an informant to justify its raid on former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a>’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida">Florida</a> residence in a warrant application to a federal judge.
An FBI confidential human source informed the bureau of classified documents that the former president was keeping in Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida resort which he moved into after leaving the White House in 2021. The FBI’s warrant application to search Trump’s residence was based largely off of information fed to the bureau from the source, down to what the documents contained and where they were being kept, two senior government officials told <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-informer-told-fbi-what-docs-trump-was-hiding-where-1732283">Newsweek</a>.
The officials, who were not named, said that the FBI planned the raid to take place while Trump was away from the property. Bureau officials believed that searching Mar-a-Lago when Trump is away would help keep the raid low-profile and avoid unwanted attention in the press. The raid had the opposite effect. The unprecedented FBI raid, the first ever conducted on a former U.S. president, brought down a firestorm of criticism on the FBI, Department of Justice (DOJ), and President Joe Biden.
“What a spectacular backfire,” a DOJ official told Newsweek. The official maintained that the raid was not political persecution, as Trump and others have claimed. The official asserted that the FBI raid was part of “a routine law enforcement action.”
Trump attorney Lindsey Halligan was on scene and described the raid to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mara-a-lago-fbi-search-lawyer/">CBS News</a>. Dozens of FBI officials, not in uniform to avoid attention, worked with the Secret Service, still responsible for the former president’s security, to gain access to Trump’s residence. Agents paid special attention to a bedroom, a storage area, and an office.
The informant reportedly told the FBI that confidential documents were stored in specific locations around Trump’s residence. The FBI relayed that information in its warrant application to federal magistrate judge, believed to be Bruce Reinhart of Florida. The warrant apparently specified that certain documents were kept in Trump’s safe, however, Eric Trump has <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/eric-trump-safe-breached-fbi-mar-a-lago-search-empty">said</a> that the safe the FBI searched was empty.
The relationship between the raid informant and the FBI is unclear. The FBI’s use of confidential human sources is rife with controversy and critics say that the informants are too often <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/how-the-fbi-conceals-its-payments-to-confidential-sources/">motivated</a> by money rather than public service. Informants can make tens of thousands, or possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars from the FBI during investigations. Confidential human sources may <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/fbi-informant-michigan-double-agent">commit</a> illegal acts themselves in service of the FBI or obtain information through dubious means to push an investigation forward.
Reports say that the FBI agents took away 10-15 boxes away from Trump’s residence, though it is unclear what was contained in those boxes.
The warrant referred to possible violations of the Presidential Records Act, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-search-of-trumps-florida-home-mar-a-lago-is-criticized-by-republicans-11660049490">according to</a> Trump attorney Christina Bobb. The FBI was after classified documents Trump allegedly improperly took from the White House when he vacated in January 2021.
Late last year, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), in charge of preserving government records, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-vs-national-archives-timeline-leading-mar-a-lago-raid">contacted</a> Trump about the records he took. Trump turned over 15 boxes-worth of document to the archives in January. DOJ officials met with Trump in June about additional documents, but talks between the two sides apparently broke down until the FBI raided Trump’s residence on Monday.

Report: Informant Fed FBI Information Used To Get Warrant For Trump Raid

A federal magistrate judge has ordered the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice">Department of Justice</a> (DOJ) to respond to requests to make public the warrant authorizing the FBI’s unprecedented Monday raid of former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump’s</a> residence.
Federal Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ordered the DOJ to “file a Response to the Motion to Unseal” the warrant Wednesday following requests made by the Times Union, a news outlet located in Albany, New York, and the conservative legal action group Judicial Watch. Reinhart said the DOJ must respond no later than August 15.
According to Trump attorney Christina Bobb, Reinhart <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/09/judge-mar-a-lago-epstein-00050739">signed off</a> on the warrant application for the FBI raid. Before Reinhart became a judge, he was as a defense attorney and at one time <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-who-repped-epstein-cronies-reportedly-signed-off-on-trump-raid">worked</a> on behalf of several individuals connected to the late sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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BREAKING: Magistrate Judge Reinhart is asking for DOJ to respond to Judicial Watch&#39;s unsealing request for (what I presume is) the Mar-a-Lago warrant by COB on Aug. 15. <a href="https://t.co/Y4uJV3TGoz">pic.twitter.com/Y4uJV3TGoz</a>
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The FBI sent roughly two dozen agents and technicians to Mar-a-Lago, Trump&#8217;s Florida resort, on Monday morning to carry out a search warrant reportedly over classified documents the former president improperly took with him from the White House in January 2021.
&#8220;These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents. Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before,&#8221; Trump said in a <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/news-bu8dvmyvvp2342">statement</a> Monday confirming the raid. &#8220;The political persecution of President Donald J. Trump has been going on for years, with the now fully debunked Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, and so much more, it just never ends. It is political targeting at the highest level!&#8221;
Trump was in New York at the time of the raid. New York Attorney General Latisha James deposed Trump on Tuesday in connection with her office&#8217;s ongoing civil investigation into his business and tax affairs. Trump <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/nyregion/trump-letitia-james-deposition.html">pleaded</a> his Fifth Amendment protections to all of James’ questions but one: confirming his name.
The FBI&#8217;s unprecedented raid against the former U.S. president, who is one of the leading candidates considering challenging President Joe Biden for office in 2024, set off a firestorm of criticism against the DOJ and Biden. The White House claimed ignorance about the raid; Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/white-house-claims-biden-was-not-briefed-on-fbi-raid-at-mar-a-lago/">said</a> the West Wing found out about the raid in the news like the rest of the United States.
Lawmakers and others have called for the DOJ and FBI to explain the raid against Trump, warning about the politicization of the Justice Department and the FBI&#8217;s crumbling reputation among many Americans. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the leading Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, called on Christopher Wray to answer questions about the raid quickly and in depth.
&#8220;If the FBI isn’t extraordinarily transparent about its justification for yesterday’s actions and committed to rooting out political bias that has infected their most sensitive investigations, they will have sealed their own fate. The FBI’s mission and the many patriotic agents who work hard to carry it out will be forever overshadowed by the distrust the bureau has sown,&#8221; the Iowa senator said in a <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-fbi-must-immediately-explain-itself-after-years-of-politicization-and-loss-of-public-trust">statement</a>.

Judge Orders DOJ To Respond To Requests For Trump Raid Warrant

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) rooted through the personal belongings of former first lady Melania Trump as they executed a search warrant believed to be connected to classified material that former President Donald Trump was supposed to return to the National Archives earlier this year.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/09/fbi-even-searched-melanias-wardrobe-in-trump-raid/">reported</a> Tuesday afternoon that the agents &#8220;scoured Melania Trump’s wardrobe&#8221; in the Versailles Master Bedroom at the Mar-a-Lago residence.
Lawyers for the Department of Justice present during the raid reportedly informed Trump’s representatives that the search warrant gave them “full access to everything” on site.
Reports have claimed that Trump’s lawyers were not allowed to observe agents searching the property, although this has not yet been confirmed.
Federal agents executed the search warrant because they reportedly believed that Trump held back turning over all the classified information, which included documents marked as “top secret,” that was supposed to be sent back earlier this year.
Federal agents removed more than 10 boxes of material, which is being sorted at a local FBI field office, from the property during the raid.
Agents were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-details-emerge-about-fbi-raid-on-mar-a-lago-what-they-took-from-property-report">reportedly</a> at the property the entire day and were dressed in plain clothes, leading staff to believe that they were U.S. Secret Service agents, which is why news of the executed search warrant did not leak.
Trump’s Secret Service agents were notified about the raid only moments before it occurred. Trump had lawyers present during the raid while he was at his residence in New York City.
Federal prosecutors opened a grand jury <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-open-grand-jury-investigation-into-trump-over-activities-at-his-florida-home-report">investigation</a> back in May into Trump over whether classified material that ended up at his home in Mar-a-Lago was mishandled.
The main purpose of these types of investigations is usually for federal authorities to determine if any classified material was compromised so that intelligence officials can take steps to protect sensitive sources and methods. Prosecutors are seeking to learn every aspect of how the documents were handled from the time the documents left the White House until they were returned to the National Archives.
For prosecutors to be able to prove that a crime was committed, they would need evidence showing that the parties involved in removing the documents from the White House knew that the documents were classified and knew that removing them would violate the law.
“These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-fbi-raids-trumps-home-at-mar-a-lago">said</a> in a statement. “After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate.”
“They even broke into my safe!” Trump said. “It is political targeting at the highest level!”

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