Judge Who Approved FBI Raid Disparaged Trump, Shared âWokeâ Content On Facebook: Report
The
Florida magistrate judge who
reportedly signed off on the FBIâs raid of former
President Donald Trumpâs home allegedly disparaged the former president and shared âwokeâ content on what appears to be his personal
Facebook page.
Josiah Lippincott, a Hillsdale College Van Adel Graduate School of Statesmanship Ph.D. candidate and writer,
first reported that Bruce Reinhart â the suspected judge who approved the raid of Mar-a-Lago â apparently denigrated then-president-elect Trump in 2017 via Facebook.
In a Facebook post screenshotted by Lippincott and reviewed by The Daily Wire, Reinhart
wrote, âI generally ignore the President-electâs tweets, but not this one. John Lewis arguably has done more to âmake America greatâ than any living citizen.â
In 2017, Trump
tweeted, âCongressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested) rather than falsely complaining about the election results. All talk, talk, talk â no action or results. Sad.â Lewis represented Georgiaâs 5th district from 1987 until his death in 2020.
âThank you, Robert Reich, for saying what many of us feel, âJohn Lewis is the conscience of America. Donald Trump doesnât have the moral stature to kiss John Lewisâs feet,ââ Reinhart added. âOr, as Joseph Welch said to Joseph McCarthy, âAt long last, have you left no sense of decency?ââ
As pointed out by Lippincott, âReinhart also shared a post in October of 2017 from a facebook group called âWokeFolksâ explaining white privilege, using the metaphor of running a race with different starting lines.â
He would later be named in the 2011 Crime Victimsâ Rights Act lawsuit, accusing him of violating DOJ policies through the job change in the midst of the Epstein investigation, according to the Herald.
Reinhart
denied this allegation, claiming he ânever learned any confidential, non-public information about the Epstein matter,â according to the Herald, and denying that he participated in the Epstein case while at the South Florida U.S. Attorneyâs Office.
His former colleagues contradicted this in a 2013 court filing that said Reinhart had learned âconfidential, non-public information about the Epstein matter,â the New York Post reported. In response to this accusation, Reinhart reportedly told the Herald that the Justice Department had dismissed a complaint that an Epstein victimâs lawyer had filed against him.
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