Magistrate Who Reportedly Signed Off on Trump FBI Warrant Has Anti-Trump Facebook Post: ‘Have You Left No Sense of Decency?’
Updated August 10, 2022 8:30 P.M. ET
PALM BEACH (FLV) – Judge Bruce Reinhart, the federal magistrate widely reported to have signed off on a FBI search warrant on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, has an anti-Trump Facebook post dated Jan. 14, 2017, just before he took office.
“I generally ignore the President-elect’s tweets, but not this one,” Reinhart said. The magistrate is likely referencing a Tweet from Trump where he blasted then-Democrat Rep. from Georgia John Lewis for having a “falling apart” district.
“Congressman 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 – no action or results. Sad!” the then-president-elect said.
Reinhart praised Robert Reich, a staunch anti-Trump activist: “Thank you, Robert Reich, for saying what many of us feel, ‘John Lewis is the conscience of America. Donald Trump doesn’t have the moral stature to kiss John Lewis’s feet.'”
The magistrate went on to direct words from Joseph Welch towards Trump: “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” In the event that Reinhart’s Facebook is taken down, click here for a link to an internet archive of the post.
A Twitter account named @BruceEReinhart, believed to be the judge’s Twitter profile, is set to private.
The day after the FBI raid on the former president, the U.S. Southern District of Florida revoked the public’s access to view Reinhart’s about profile on a government website. Users are met with an “Access denied” page. To view the magistrate’s information as of Nov. 29, 2021, click here.
The judge helped convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstrein’s employees in a case related to sex trafficking, the Miami Herald reported.
Epstein also hired Bruce Reinhart, then an assistant U.S. attorney in South Florida, now a U.S. magistrate. He left the U.S. Attorney’s Office on Jan. 1, 2008, and went to work representing Epstein’s employees on Jan. 2, 2008, court records show. In 2011, Reinhart was named in the Crime Victims’ Rights Act lawsuit, which accused him of violating Justice Department policies by switching sides, implying that he leveraged inside information about Epstein’s investigation to curry favor with Epstein
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Reinhart is also a donor to Former President Barack Obama and Trump 2016 opponent Jeb Bush.
Hours after news circulated that the Biden Administration’s FBI raided Former President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, he posted a video on Truth Social hinting at a 2024 run.
“Soon we will have greatness again,” Trump said. “It is hard-working patriots like you who are going to save our country.”
“We are a nation that has the highest energy cost in its history and we are no longer energy independent or energy dominant, which we were just two short years ago,” he explained. “We are a nation that surrendered in Afghanistan, leaving behind dead soldiers and American citizens.”
“We are a nation that has weaponized its law enforcement against the opposing political party like never before – we’ve never seen anything like this,” Trump went on.
Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republicans slammed the Department of Justice and the Biden Administration after the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago house Monday night.
“The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves,” DeSantis said. “Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic.”
