The warrant used for the search on Mar-a-Lago was unsealed on Friday. Here’s what we’ve learned so far about the raid, what caused it, and what the FBI took from the premises
Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images Less than a week after the FBI searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, it was revealed that federal agents were investigating potential violations of the Espionage Act and that they found multiple top-secret documents.
On Thursday, the Washington Post reported agents believed some of the documents they went to look for involved nuclear weapons, but this was before the search and it is not known if such documents were recovered. It was also not clear whether they pertain to U.S. weapons or those of a foreign country, or the precise sensitivity of the documents. In response to the reporting, Trump said on Truth Social that “the nuclear weapons issue is a hoax.
In June, Bobb said, she and Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran met with Jay Bratt, the chief of the counterintelligence and export control section at the Justice Department, along with several investigators. Trump stopped by the meeting as it began, to greet the investigators, but was not interviewed. The lawyers showed the federal officials the boxes, and Bratt and the others spent some time looking through the material.
What happened during the raid? The of Mar-a-Lago began at 9 a.m. on Monday. The Secret Service was reportedly notified in advance and “facilitated access to the Florida Trump property as fellow federal agents but did not take part in investigation or search,” per NBC News’ Kelly O’Donnell. The feds, who were in plain clothes, reportedly left around 6:30 p.m. Mar-a-Lago is currently closed to members on account of the summer heat in Florida.
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