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Government Corruption
Judge Who Approved Mar-A-Lago Raid Was Obama Donor, Linked to Jeffrey Epstein
2022-08-09
Links to all of today’s articles and commentary on the subject can be seen here. We had the first report of the FBI raid yesterday evening here.
[PJMedia] Ever since President Trump announced that Mar-A-Lago had been raided by the FBI, we’ve been looking for answers. How did this happen? Why did this happen? Who knew about it, and when did they know about it? While we’ll likely find out more about who and when later, what we do know now is how it happened. New details have come to light about the judge who signed off on the search warrant that will make you sick to your stomach — and suggest this effort by the Biden administration to target Trump will backfire drastically.

Miranda Devine of the New York Post discovered that the sealed search warrant was assigned to magistrate judge Bruce E. Reinhart.

Reinhart is a former U.S. Attorney who left that position to represent employees of notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The Post reports:

Reinhart was elevated to magistrate judge in March 2018 after 10 years in private practice. That November, the Miami Herald reported that he had represented several of Epstein’s employees — including, by Reinhart’s own admission to the outlet, Epstein’s pilots; his scheduler, Sarah Kellen; and Nadia Marcinkova, who Epstein once reportedly described as his “Yugoslavian sex slave.”

Kellen and Marcinkova were among Epstein’s lieutenants who were granted immunity as part of a controversial 2007 deal with federal prosecutors that allowed the pervert to plead guilty to state charges rather than federal crimes. Epstein wound up serving just 13 months in county jail and was granted work release.

According to the outlet, Reinhart resigned from the South Florida US Attorney’s Office effective on New Year’s Day 2008 and went to work for Epstein’s cohorts the following day. […] Reinhart was later named in a civil lawsuit that accused him of violating Justice Department policies by switching sides in the middle of the Epstein investigation, suggesting he had used inside information about the probe to build favor with the notorious defendant, the Herald reported in 2018.

So, Reinhart bailed on his gig with the government prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplices so he could represent them, and he succeeded in getting his sex-trafficking clients immunity.

Oh, but there’s more. Not only did Reinhart make an ethically questionable move from prosecuting Epstein and his accomplices to representing them, but according to FEC records, Reinhart donated $1,000 to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and another $1,000 to a pro-Obama PAC in 2008.

So, aside from the blatant abuse of power by the Biden administration, an Epstein-linked Obama donor approved the warrant authorizing the raid on Trump’s home.
Related:
Mar-A-Lago: 2019-07-09 Trump Banned Epstein From Mar-A-Lago For Alleged Assault On Underage Girl
Mar-A-Lago: 2006-12-24 Trump Sues Town in American Flag Flap
Posted by:DarthVader

#11  ^ About $165,000 of your tax dollars sitting right there. Plus benefits.
Posted by: Matt   2022-08-09 22:22  

#10  Got kind of a pretty mouth...suitable for smaller, er, equipment?:


Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2022-08-09 21:17  

#9  30 FBI agents to obtain documents that were wanted by the National Archives

????
Posted by: Lord Garth   2022-08-09 20:29  

#8  #6 Not to be all geek about it, but this was a federal magistrate, not a Florida state magistrate. But if I were him I would have let a federal district judge do the honors. "I feel a touch of COVID coming on, but I think Judge XYZ is around..."
Posted by: Matt   2022-08-09 19:07  

#7  Summary of Reaction from Around the world:


FBI raid on Trump has sent faith in American democracy to ‘rock bottom’
Posted by: Sloluse Slutle9788   2022-08-09 17:13  

#6  I keep thinking this was so badly planned that there must be something else going on. Why use a lower level judge instead of a Federal One?

Is there anyway a FLA judge could be linked to DeSantes in lefty brains hoping to split GOP?
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-08-09 16:57  

#5  Reinhart bailed on his gig with the government prosecuting Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplices so he could represent them, and he succeeded in getting his sex-trafficking clients immunity.

So he's a Clintonian.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-08-09 15:59  

#4  ^ The mildly good news there would be that magistrate judges don't have lifetime tenure -- they have to be re-appointed every eight years after input from a "panel of citizens".
Posted by: Matt   2022-08-09 15:58  

#3  a Magistrate Judge signed this historic, precedent breaking warrant

WTF
Posted by: Lord Garth   2022-08-09 15:11  

#2  Does really matter. They can always find a friendly judge. The people who requested this are the ones who just completed our descent to banana republic.
Posted by: Angstrom   2022-08-09 14:12  

#1  It's probably just a coincidence.
Posted by: Matt   2022-08-09 13:21  

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