The US Department of Justice published the affidavit that justified the FBI’s raid on the Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. According to the FBI, its agents had reason to believe that in the search they would find “evidence of obstruction of justice.” The FBI confiscated 184 classified documents from Trump’s home and -25 that are defined as strictly confidential
The US Department of Justice published this weekend the censored version of the search warrant affidavit for the Mar-a-Lago mansion owned by former US President Donald Trump. The raid was conducted after the office suspected that the classified documents found in his estate could endanger secret sources or agents.
The text submitted to the court states that “if the documents had fallen into the wrong hands, they could have revealed sensitive details about human intelligence sources or the working methods of spy agencies.”
According to reports in the US, among the “classified documents” found in the boxes in Trump’s home were 67 documents marked with a low classification level, 92 documents marked with a high classification level, and 25 documents marked with a top secret classification level. In an updated affidavit published yesterday, of 38 pages that details Many in it were blacked out, detailing why investigators thought there was probable cause to commit crimes on the part of the former president.
The former US president responded with a laugh to the new accusations and published a document in which he blacked out all the text except for the words: “Bring America back to its greatness”, the slogan of his election campaign. At the beginning of the page he wrote: “They missed one document”.
Trump’s response to the published document
The Justice Department’s warrant authorized the FBI to search Trump’s home and private club earlier this month, and the FBI said they expected to find “evidence of obstruction of justice” in a search of the former president’s home. After the raid on the house, investigators claimed that top secret files found at Mar-a-Lago were stored along with various newspapers and magazines.
According to a CNN report, the agent who submitted the affidavit noted that among the documents were notes in the handwriting of former President Trump. The Ministry of Justice said it censored the affidavit to protect “a large number of human sources”, and Trump replied that the investigation was being conducted by “political thugs” and that it was a “public relations stunt”.