Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley said Thursday there will be “hell to pay” if the Justice Department didn't find the purported “smoking gun” at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home that they used as justification to obtain the warrant for the FBI’s raid.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ordered the Justice Department to unseal and make public a redacted version of the affidavit used to obtain a warrant to raid the president's home by Friday at noon. Turley said on “Your World” that the public should expect a heavily redacted document, pointing to the department's reputation of being “notorious for over-redactions to serve tactical purposes.”
While it's still unclear whether the redacted affidavit will provide better insight into the FBI's reasoning for the raid, Turley said he thinks Judge Reinhart “made a mistake” accepting the Justice Department's redacted version as it was presented, without any pushback or demands of increased transparency.