More information into the search warrant for Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence has come out after a judge unsealed additional passages of the affidavit used in the former president's classified documents case.
The release came after U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ruled that more of the affidavit"should be unsealed" but not the entire thing.New details from the material illustrate how much evidence the Justice Department had before the August 2022 raid.
The affidavit said investigators were shown security camera footage of where a storage unit containing boxes holding documents was located, determining that"people could still enter the storage unit without being detected and observed footage of people leaving with boxes," Business Insider reported. Trump was indicted last month on 37 federal felony counts after allegedly illegally retaining and concealing national defense information, in addition to obstructing the DOJ's investigation into the documents. He has pleaded not guilty and claimed, among several other defenses, that he was allowed to hold the documents due to the Presidential Records Act.
Trump's aide Walt Nauta has also been charged in special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents investigation.The DOJ released a 32-page redacted version of the affidavit for the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago in a memo last August, revealing slim details about why investigators believe there was probable cause that crimes had been committed. On Sept. 13, the DOJ released a copy of the affidavit with fewer redactions.
Trump and several news organizations have asked the court to release the full affidavit to the public. Initially, the DOJ resisted releasing the affidavit, citing national security concerns, but Reinhart, who approved the Mar-a-Lago search, required that an initial draft be released last August.
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