Former President Trump Friday slammed the federal judge who released a “heavily redacted!!!” version of an FBI affidavit used to win a search warrant of his Florida resort home.
Accusing U.S. Magistrate Judge Reinhart of “animosity and hatred,” Trump said the judge should not have approved the search of Mar-a-Lago, even though federal agents found boxes stuffed with top secret documents.
“Judge Bruce Reinhart should NEVER have allowed the Break-In of my home,” Trump wrote on his social media platform. “Why hasn’t he recused himself on this case?”
Trump falsely claimed that he cooperated with FBI efforts to retrieve documents he improperly took to his beach home after leaving the White House in 2021.
“Nothing mentioned on … our close working relationship regarding document turnover – WE GAVE THEM MUCH,” he wrote.
Trump suggested the document was underwhelming because the unredacted portions did not mention that the FBI was looking for nuclear information.
In fact, it hasn’t been revealed what the documents contain, only that they include some of the nation’s most closely guarded secrets.
Trump has demanded the release of the entire affidavit, which would likely include the identities of witnesses who told the FBi he had failed to hand over top secret documents and where he stashed them at Mar-a-Lago.
But he did not make any such request to Reinhart before the judge agreed to release only a heavily redacted version with whole pages blacked out by Justice Department lawyers.
