Aug. 12, 2022: Clock ticks down on Mar-a-Lago warrant reveal
The Playbook Podcast
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🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Presented by Facebook. |
| 0:02.7 | Good morning, Playbookers. I'm Rogumunovallin. It's Friday. We might get to see that warrant today, |
| 0:07.9 | so here's what to expect. It's her Politico Playbook Daily Briefing. |
| 0:15.8 | Former President Donald Trump states he will not oppose the Justice Department's motion |
| 0:20.2 | to unseal |
| 0:21.0 | the search warrant, approved by a federal court, and a partially redacted property receipt |
| 0:25.6 | listing the items seized during the FBI search. The redactions, according to the government, |
| 0:30.2 | quote, removed the names of law enforcement personnel who executed the search, which seems |
| 0:35.1 | to indicate that they do not remove any information about the |
| 0:38.1 | items seized. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the government's filing Thursday afternoon |
| 0:42.9 | at an unusual two-minute briefing at the Department of Justice. Garland referred to the, quote, |
| 0:47.7 | former president four times, but never said his name. His reason for unsealing the documents, |
| 0:52.1 | quote, the department filed a motion to make public the warrant and receipt in light of the former president's public confirmation of the search, |
| 0:59.4 | the surrounding circumstances, and the substantial public interest in this matter. |
| 1:03.7 | It seems likely that Garland would have not asked the court to make the warrant and property |
| 1:07.3 | receipt public if Trump had not gone nuclear with his accusations that the Attorney |
| 1:11.8 | General and FBI had weaponized law enforcement against him. As many observers put it, |
| 1:17.0 | Garland called Trump's Bluffs. Judge Bruce Reinhardt, the magistrate overseeing the case |
| 1:22.6 | in the Southern District of Florida, swiftly ordered the government to confer with Trump |
| 1:26.7 | and report back by 3 p.m. |
| 1:28.3 | today on whether the former president opposed the motion to unseal. |
| 1:32.3 | Trump debated whether to fight Garland on the disclosure. |
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