DOJ Releases Additional Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant Info

The Justice Department has released more information from the search warrant affidavit for Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. You can find the full document here.

In an exciting development, U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart has ruled that additional parts of the document can be unsealed. You can read more about this ruling here.

While some media organizations requested the entire document to be unsealed, Judge Reinhart decided that certain investigative steps should remain under seal. You can find his ruling from July 5 here.

The Justice Department initially released a redacted copy of the search warrant affidavit in August 2022 and gradually unsealed more portions in the following month.

However, many questions still remain unanswered regarding the crimes investigators believe were committed.

New Information

Among the newly unsealed portions are additional explanations of what investigators believed was in the seized boxes.

According to the affidavit, “Since the FIFTEEN BOXES were provided to NARA, additional documents bearing classification markings, which appear to contain NDI and were stored at the PREMISES in an unauthorized location, have been produced to the government in response to a grand jury subpoena directed to FPOTUS’s post-presidential office and seeking documents containing classification markings stored at the PREMISES and otherwise under FPOTUS’s control.”

A few lines in a seven-page blackout were newly un-redacted, including “It was FPOTUS’s practice to store accumulated documents in boxes, and that continues to be his practice,” as well as descriptions of Mar-a-Lago doors and a photo of boxes stacked in a storage room.

The latest affidavit also reveals that Mr. Trump’s attorney agreed to accept service of a grand jury subpoena via email. The subpoena requested any and all documents with classification markings, including “top secret,” “confidential,” and others.

In June 2022, a “single Redweld envelope, wrapped in tape, containing documents” was produced in response to the subpoena. This envelope was found in the storage room of boxes.

The investigator learned from the attorney that all White House records were kept in boxes inside this storage room. Upon inspection, it was discovered that approximately fifty to fifty-five boxes remained, suggesting that some of the original 80 to 95 boxes provided to Mr. Trump had been relocated.

The envelope produced by the subpoena included 38 unique documents, includ