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PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - SEPTEMBER 14: In this aerial view, former U.S. President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is seen on September 14, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump's legal team is currently negotiating with the Justice Department regarding the selection of a Special Master to review documents, some marked Top Secret, seized when the FBI searched the compound. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

FBI Emails: D.C. Field Office warned Biden admin they lacked probable cause to raid Mar-a-Lago prior to 2022 search

Internal FBI emails declassified and released this week show that agents in the bureau’s Washington Field Office (WFO) repeatedly expressed doubts about establishing probable cause for a search warrant at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in the months leading up to the August 8, 2022, raid.

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WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 1: (EDITOR'S NOTE: Alternative Crop) Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) pauses while speaking to reporters off the Senate floor after the Senate passes President Donald Trump's so-called "One, Big, Beautiful Bill," Act at the U.S. Capitol Building on July 1, 2025 in Washington, DC. U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance was the tie-breaking vote as President Donald Trump's so-called "One, Big, Beautiful Bill," Act passes in the Senate. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Senate Majority Leader Thune expresses hesitancy after Trump demands end to ‘Blue Slip scam’ allowing Dem Senators to block GOP appointees

President Donald Trump asked Senate Majority Leader John Thune to terminate the Senate’s “Blue Slip” tradition — an informal courtesy allowing home-state senators from either party to block or withhold approval for certain presidential nominees, such as federal judges and U.S. attorneys, by not returning a “blue slip” form to the Judiciary Committee.

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Photo screenshots taken of viral video circulating on X featuring -- Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), and Representatives Jason Crow (D-Colo.), Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.), Chris Deluzio (D-Penn.) and Chrissy Houlahan (D-Penn.).

Trump: Democrat lawmakers urging U.S. service members to defy ‘illegal orders’ are ‘traitors’ who should face trial for ‘SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR’

In a Thursday post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump branded six Democrat lawmakers as “traitors” for releasing a video on Tuesday that seemingly urged the U.S. military and intelligence community to defy orders from his administration. He demanded that the Democrats be “ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL.”

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