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House Intelligence GOPers demand to see Trump raid warrant affidavit

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Hours before a federal magistrate judge released the search warrant used by the FBI to raid former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate Friday, Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee demanded the Department of Justice hand over the supporting affidavit, which would detail what crimes investigators believe the 45th president may have committed.
“It should be released to us. It should be released to Congress,” Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), the panel’s ranking member, told reporters at the Capitol.
When asked if the affidavit should also be made public, Turner answered: “It depends on what’s in it, but we have demanded that it be released to us, and there are other committees that have joint jurisdiction that it should be released to also.”
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) added the “real story” of the Mar-a-Lago raid will come out “with the release of the affidavit itself, which is not currently planned to be released, it is filed under seal.
“The prosecution does have to repeatedly go back to the court and ask that it remain under seal. There is a baseline presumption that that document be released to the public in the interest of transparency,” he added.

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