Chanel Rion, OAN Chief White House Correspondent
UPDATED 11:39 AM PT – Thursday, August 18, 2022
As scrutiny over Biden’s DOJ raid of Trump’s personal Florida residence last week continues, Judge Bruce Reinhart is on Thursday overseeing a hearing to determine whether to release the affidavit responsible for allowing the FBI to move on the search.
“I don’t think they have anything usable.” Trump attorney Christina Bobb tells OAN. “If they try to go after him at this point,” says Bobb, “it’s going to go very, very badly.”
Bobb adds, unsealing the affidavit would help President Trump in his case because it would likely expose the FBI’s lack of probable cause. A legally necessary component to justify the FBI’s August 8 raid.
The latest controversy out of the raid emerged when the FBI was caught having confiscated President Trump’s three passports. The FBI was forced to admit that it had taken the passports and then declared the passports would be returned.
Biden’s DOJ is arguing that releasing the affidavit prompting the search would endanger an ongoing investigation.
Trump, meanwhile, has demanded the affidavit be released: “There is no way to justify the unannounced RAID of Mar-a-Lago,” Trump writes on his social media platform Truth Social.
“I call for the immediate release of the completely Unredacted Affidavit pertaining to this horrible and shocking BREAK-IN,” Trump noted.
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