Election. Though the dispute is technically over the handling of evidence, its become a proxy war of the expresident s mob boss tactics. Its a little complicated, but incredibly important. Here is where things stand right now. Federal judge chutkan was ordered a hearing over the Justice Departments request for a protective order. The rules governing the process between prosecutors and the defense team. The Washington Post notes such orders can be technical but are routinely approved by judges to protect witnesses and government investigative methods and priorities by limiting evidence by the defense to people authorized by the court. In its argument for a protective order, the Justice Department made a nod to the fact that the defendant has prosecutors explained they wanted to immediately turn over evidence to speed Defense Trial Preparations but were concerned in part over trumps history of posting on social Media Associated with cases against him. Trumps defense team complained the g
Warrant for donald trump. An Appeals Court opinion states, quote, the District Court found probable cause to search the twitter account for evidence of criminal offenses. Turns out that twitter and jack smith Squared Off On Whether Trump should be told about the Search Warrant, with the Federal Court ultimately ruling to keep the warrant a secret from trump. It says that, quote, the District Court found there was reasonable grounds to believe that disclosing the warrant to former President Trump would seriously jeopardize the Ongoing Investigation by giving him an opportunity to destroy evidence, change patterns of behavior or notify confederates. Its hard to remember now given that the expresident was banned for twitter for years and has not posted since his return, but his twitter account was one of the most powerful weapons in the aftermath of the 2020 election. He used it to spread baseless Conspiracy Theories to his millions of followers and urged his supporters to go to washingto
media organizations that sued to get this affidavit unredacted. now, it is out. it is not totally unredacted. it is way, way less redacted than the original version, so we have been comparing and contrasting the two, as fast as we can. again, this thing just came out two hours ago. the thing that jumped out at us immediately? was this. the newly unredacted sections of the affidavit, gave us a much better understanding of what the government could see on the surveillance footage they ve got from mar-a-lago. there s details we didn t have before, like how the cameras were motion activated. really, it s where the cameras could not see that sticks out. on july 6th of last, year the trump organization provided the fbi with a hard drive, containing the footage of four cameras. all four of those cameras were in the basement hallway, leading to the storage room, where trump had been keeping this classified documents. that s a pivotal part of how the justice department knew documents
un-redacted affidavit the government used to get a search warrant for trump s mar-a-lago club last year. full disclosure nbc news is part of a group of organizations that sued to get this affidavit un-redacted, and now it is out. it is not totally un-redacted, but it is way, way less redacted than the original version, so we have been comparing and contrasting the two as fast as we can. again, this thing just came out two hours ago, but the thing that jumped out at us immediately was this, the newly un-redacted sections of the affidavit give us a much better understanding of what the government could see on the surveillance footage it got from mar-a-lago. there s fun details we didn t have before like how the cameras were motion activated. but really it s what the cameras couldn t see that sticks out. on july 6th of last year the trump organization provided the fbi with the hard drive containing the footage of four cameras. all four of those cameras were in the basement hallw