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The judge who authorized the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago property reportedly represented colleagues of convicted pedophile and sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein and donated to the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Jeb Bush, according to reports.
A Miami Herald report claimed that sources close to the FBI pointed to a federal magistrate judge in West Palm Beach, Florida, as the one responsible for the search warrant against Trump’s property. Based on that information, Politico identified three possible judges dedicated to the Southern District: Bruce Reinhart, William Matthewman, and Ryon McCabe.
The most recent warrants shown in the court’s database are for Reinhart, both entered on Monday, Aug. 8, although information about the targets of those warrants is private.
So Bruce Reinhart would be the judge most likely to have issued the search warrant against Mar-A-Lago.
BREAKING: Judge Reportedly Behind Mar A Lago Raid Warrant Is Former Jeffrey Epstein Lawyer, Obama Donor. https://t.co/H2OHdUWH7W
— The National Pulse – RSS Feed (@TheNatPulseRSS) August 9, 2022
According to revelations byThe National Pulse, Reinhart is a former attorney who represented employees of convicted sex offender and notorious child molester, Jeffrey Epstein. During the 2016 election race, Reinhart reportedly donated to the campaigns of some of Trump’s opponents. In the past he had donated $2,000 to Obama’s first campaign.
Although he did not directly represent the sexual predator, the former lawyer defended the pilots who transported victims and perpetrators in the Epstein case, Sarah Kellen, who scheduled the appointments in the Machiavellian scheme, and Nadia Marcinkova, who was allegedly a “sexual slave” for the billionaire.
After serving as deputy attorney general, where he was heavily involved in the Epstein pedophilia case, according to another Miami Herald report, Reinhart began legal representation of the sexual predator’s employees in October 2008, the same year he was a benefactor of the Obama campaign.
Prior to that, while holding a role in the U.S. Attorney’s office, Reinhart reportedly used the momentum of the Epstein case to establish his criminal defense firm. Here’s what the Miami Herald writes about it:
“On Oct 23, 2007, as federal prosecutors in South Florida were in the midst of tense negotiations to finalize a plea deal with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a senior prosecutor in their office was quietly laying out plans to leave the U.S. attorney’s office after 11 years. On that date, as emails were flying between Epstein’s lawyers and federal prosecutors, Bruce E. Reinhart, now a federal magistrate, opened a limited liability company in Florida that established what would become his new criminal defense practice”.
The Herald report also stated that Reinhart was allegedly accused of taking advantage of “inside information about Epstein’s investigation” to gain favors from the convicted sex abuser.
Tomás Lugo, journalist and writer. Born in Venezuela and graduated in Social Communication. Has written for international media outlets. Currently living in Colombia // Tomás Lugo, periodista y articulista. Nacido en Venezuela y graduado en Comunicación Social. Ha escrito para medios internacionales. Actualmente reside en Colombia.