In one newly unredacted section of the federal search warrant affidavit for Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, FBI investigators write that “it was always FPOTUS’s practice to store accumulated documents in boxes, and that continues to be his practice.”
’s Mar-a-Lago estate was unsealed Wednesday, providing several new, unredacted details in an ongoing legal saga that the former president continues to claim is a witch hunt against him despite mounting evidence to the contrary.comes after a federal judge in Florida ruled Wednesday that more information be made public from the affidavit, which chronicles the FBI’s search for top secret documents stashed in multiple rooms at Mar-a-Lago.
Those include a new picture of 61 boxes in the Mar-a-Lago's storage room, as well as a recounting of CCTV video that shows the boxes being moved. It describes how on June 3, 2022, three FBI agents along with the Department of Justice arrived at Mar-a-Lago and were met by Trump’s legal counsel along with a “custodian of records for FPOTUS’s post-presidential office.” Trump’s counsel advised the DOJ that all the records had been kept in a storage room and that he had been advised there were no other records stored in another location. When entering the storage room, investigators discovered evidence that some boxes may have been moved.
The newly unredacted content details how the Department of Justice obtained surveillance camera footage of the boxes in the storage room being moved over a number of days before and after the FBI and Department of Justice visits. Then, on June 29, a padlock is installed on the storage room door. While much of the movement of boxes was already known, its inclusion reveals why investigators were concerned documents were intentionally being withheld and adds to their argument that Mar-a-Lago needed be searched. While Trump’s valet Walt Natau, who was also indicted, is not named—the affidavit simply identifies the person who moved boxes as “Witness 5”—the dates match those with those cited in his indictment.
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