The New York Post is reporting that the judge who signed the warrant to raid Mar-a-Lago on Monday is an Obama appointee who has a history of defending associates of Jeffrey Epstein.
From the Post:
The Florida federal magistrate judge who signed off on a search warrant authorizing the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort left the local US Attorney's office more than a decade ago to rep employees of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein who had received immunity in the long-running sex-trafficking investigation of the financier.
Sources tell The Post that Judge Bruce Reinhart approved the warrant that enabled federal agents to converge on the palatial South Florida estate on Monday in what Trump called an "unannounced raid on my home."
Reinhart was elevated to magistrate judge in 2018 after 10 years in private practice. That November, the Miami Herald reported that he had represented several of Epstein's employees in connection with the sex trafficking investigation against the financier.
People are saying the FBI had to have lots of evidence and a good reason for a judge to sign off. But now that we know who the judge is...
I think this just confirms what we already suspected about the FBI.
According to the outlet (Miami-Herald), 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.
In his 12 years as a federal prosecutor, according to his official biography, Reinhart "managed a docket that covered the full spectrum of federal crimes, including narcotics, violent crimes, public corruption, financial frauds, child pornography and immigration."
The Epstein employees Reinhart represented, by his own admission to the Herald, included Epstein's pilots; his scheduler, Sarah Kellen; and Nadia Marcinkova, who Epstein once reportedly described as his "Yugoslavian sex slave."
This sounds like a real standup guy.
Politico doesn't confirm the report, but mentions Reinhart as likely being the judge who signed off on the raid.
WHO SIGNED THE WARRANT? — A "source said FBI agents obtained a search warrant from a federal magistrate judge in West Palm Beach," report the Miami Herald's Alex Roarty, Michael Wilner and Jay Weaver. According to its website, the West Palm Beach location of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida has three Magistrates: Judge BRUCE REINHART, Judge WILLIAM MATTHEWMAN and Judge RYON MCCABE. The court's online database shows two recent warrant applications, both assigned to Reinhart, were entered into its system on Monday, though information about the targets of those warrants is sealed.
Reinhart, apparently, is the only one who signed warrants Monday.
This just casts more doubt on the already doubtful legitimacy of the FBI raid on Trump.
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