Major Trump FBI Raid Developments in Jack Smith Case

Court filings in President Trump’s classified documents case just revealed more shocking insights into the August 2022 FBI raid at his Mar-a-Lago residence. The FBI turned off all the CCTV servers to ensure no recordings of the raid took place – supposedly out of concern for the agents’ safety.

While raiding Trump’s house, the FBI said that Trump could keep the cameras going so they could watch the agents – but they couldn’t record the FBI’s search. Only after Trump’s attorneys demanded the cameras be turned back on did the FBI comply.

The FBI clearly abused its authority, acting like it was normal practice to turn off cameras during a raid. And unfortunately, for a period of time, in an age where bodycams are ubiquitous, we have no idea what the FBI was doing at Trump’s home.

You would expect the Department of Justice to want more transparency if it truly wanted to preserve the integrity of the agency. Instead, quite the opposite happened, as if they didn’t want a record of what they were actually doing. It certainly raises more questions about the FBI’s tactics for gathering evidence.

The controversy over Smith’s case against Trump continues to snowball. Yesterday the hearing to determine whether Special Counsel Jack Smith was lawfully appointed to serve in his role continued. I expect a decision on this hearing relatively soon.

And don’t forget that Smith also admitted to mishandling Trump’s documents, possibly even tampering with the evidence to such a degree that Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan (OH-4) launched an investigation.

I fully expect Trump’s attorneys to argue that Trump’s due process rights were violated. ACLJ Senior Counsel and Director of Policy Harry Hutchison expounded further:

The Trump defense is on sound grounds in asserting Trump’s constitutional rights grounded in the Fourth Amendment. So the quintessential question is whether Trump’s due process rights were violated during the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid. And second, was the search warrant . . . a misleading search warrant? . . . Based on the publicly available information . . . Trump’s defense can logically make the claim that the evidence obtained during the search warrant should be thrown out due to unconstitutionality. Because the warrant lacked . . . particularity as required by the Fourth Amendment, . . . [which] protects every person from an unreasonable government intrusion.

There was no basis for the FBI to turn off the cameras unless it was trying to hide something. And at the end of the day, the recording would have protected both the defendant and the FBI to ensure that everything was conducted lawfully. Yet the FBI can’t say that their investigation was carried out in such a manner.

Yesterday we also celebrated the second anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. We are declaring this Life Week to commemorate the largest Supreme Court ruling in our lifetime.

However, the battle for life is still raging in the states, and we are involved in a major pro-life case right now regarding buffer zone laws outside abortion clinics. ACLJ Senior Counsel CeCe Heil shared about the ACLJ fighting for the right of pro-life sidewalk counselors to minister outside a Louisville abortion clinic:

We represent the sidewalk counselors who have been counseling there for years, praying with women, talking to them, giving them advice and facts and truth. This buffer zone law keeps them from doing that. And even though Kentucky has outlawed abortion, the abortion clinic is still open, and it’s still referring people and patients on how to get abortions out of state. And there’s also a Planned Parenthood that is open there. So our clients, of course, still want to go and pray and talk to these people, and they’re unable to do that with this buffer zone law still in place.

After we won at the Sixth Circuit, an injunction was issued, allowing the counselors to continue sharing their lifesaving message. We have a post-evidentiary hearing on July 1 for this case. We will keep you updated on further developments.

The ACLJ will never stop fighting for the unborn. We are also about to file a vital brief at the U.S. Supreme Court to defund Planned Parenthood. Join our fight to defeat this abortion giant by signing our petition.

Today’s Sekulow broadcast included the Deep State FBI’s unlawful move to stop the recording of their raid of Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago. ACLJ Senior Counsel for Global Affairs Mike Pompeo discussed his latest ACLJ article that explains how Biden’s amnesty Executive Order takes a page from President Obama’s playbook.

Watch the full broadcast below: