Judge orders DoJ to prepare redacted Trump search affidavit | First Thing
Justice department opposed release of document but Florida federal judge says portions of it could be presumptively unsealed'. Plus, meet the strippers who have filed to unionize
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In a surprise move, the justice department has been ordered to redact the affidavit used to obtain the warrant to search Donald Trump's resort in Florida in such a way as not to jeopardize the investigation in case it is decided next week that the document can be unsealed.
Why doesn't the justice department want to release the affidavit? Jay Bratt, the chief of the counterintelligence section, opposed the release of a redacted affidavit since, given it contains significant grand jury information and investigative techniques, the redactions would be so extensive that it would show nothing of substance".
What else is happening? Liz Cheney has released a recording of the call she made to her Trump-backed opponent who claimed she did not concede in the Wyoming US House primary.
What does the report say? In her report, the federal police investigator Lorena Lima Nascimento said that untrue claim could generate public alarm over a nonexistent danger" and constituted a misdemeanor.
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