A redacted version of an affidavit from an FBI search warrant justifying why the DOJ felt compelled to remove government documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence was made public today.
, telling them that Mar-a-Lago is “not authorized to store classified information.” The letter asked that the documents currently secured there “be preserved” in a storage room “in their current condition until further notice.”that he was simply told by the DOJ to get a better lock for the documents.
Reinhart’s original order to release portions of the affidavit came as many across the country called for more transparency into the search warrant that was executed by FBI agents at the Palm Beach, Florida, estate earlier this month. But , a law used to prosecute individuals who mishandle government information to the detriment of U.S. interests abroad.
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