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A redacted version of the affidavit will be made public after federal agents searched Trump's Florida estate to look for classified documents.

Honig, a former federal prosecutor, told CNN's New Day that "the affidavit is a written narrative. Trump fix the structural problems that led to the greatest crisis in American democracy since the Civil War. The editorial went on: "Mr. "Trump with the extreme MAGA Republicans have made their choice to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate and division. An unredacted version was leaked to some conservative news outlets before the DOJ's version. However, he accepted redactions made by the government. "The kind of authenticity and drive Dr. [lawsuit against the DOJ](https://www.newsweek.com/five-key-points-donald-trump-lawsuit-suing-doj-mar-lago-search-1735914)asking for a special master be appointed to review seized materials. statutes including the Espionage Act. We are right now living in a Lawless Country, that just so happens to be, also, a Failing Nation!" - The Department of Justice has until 12 p.m. AMERICA TO SAVE," Trump Jr.

President Biden plans Friday to meet with state and local officials to discuss reproductive health care before heading to Delaware for the weekend.

[make public a redacted version of the affidavit](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/25/trump-affidavit-mar-a-lago/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) underpinning the FBI search of former president Donald Trump’s Florida home. At the White House, President Biden plans to drop by a meeting of state and local elected officials to discuss reproductive health care before heading to Delaware for the weekend. However, it remains to be seen how much will be revealed, given the redactions.

Judge Bruce Reinhart has ordered the Justice Department to release documents supporting the FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.

They are often used in investigations to add a ‘guarantee’ of truthfulness to testimony and they form a crucial part of the court system. It will therefore contain key information from the investigation, most likely the The Justice Department had been reluctant to make any information related to the search public, fearing that it could undermine their investigation and potentially expose witnesses involved thus far. In his written explanation, he confirmed that prosecutors had shown “good cause” for sections to be withheld. [probable cause](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/23/trump-illegal-documents-fbi-mar-a-lago) for the search. The document must be made public by noon Friday.

U.S. Magistrate Bruce Reinhart said the edited document would be made public by noon ET Friday. Reinhart's action came just hours after the Justice Department ...

[is alleged to have been involved in the gang-rape of a minor in 2021](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/bills/2022/08/25/matt-araiza-accused-gang-raping-minor-lawsuit-sdsu/7898281001/), according to a civil lawsuit filed Thursday in California. [the second visit by members of Congress](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/14/taiwan-visit-markey-lawmakers-pelosi/10322870002/) since [House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip earlier this month raised tensions with China](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/03/pelosi-taiwan-visit-china/10219499002/). [the launch of the latest foldable smartphones](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/shopping/2022/08/10/samsung-folding-phones-galaxy-z-flip-z-fold/10275088002/), the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 and Galaxy Z Fold4. 8 search warrant](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/12/search-warrant-trump-maralago-released/10306846002/) for Mar-a-Lago, which Reinhart authorized. is seeking greater investment at home](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/07/28/congress-chips-biden-bipartisan-bill/10154532002/). It appears to have peaked, but at almost 9%, inflation is [still hovering near a four-decade high](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/08/10/cpi-report-2022-inflation-eases-off-40-year-high-july/10282413002/). It's unclear whether Araiza will play, though the Bills have no other punter on their roster [after recent player moves](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2022/08/22/bills-cut-haack-clear-the-way-for-punt-god-to-take-over/50627447/). [the release of a redacted version of the Justice Department's affidavit](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/25/justice-department-redacted-trump-search-affidavit/7886820001/) that supported the unprecedented search of Mar-a-lago, Donald Trump's South Florida estate. [FBI agents seized 11 sets of classified documents.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/23/archives-letter-trump-mar-lago-document-investigation/7872613001/) But prosecutors released no details about what the documents contained. The Flip4 starts at $999.99 and the Fold4 starts at $1,799.99. Deutsche Bank economists anticipate [Powell will reiterate the Fed's commitment to getting inflation under control](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/08/22/jerome-powell-speech-jackson-hole/7865158001/). Women have not.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/08/21/gender-gap-jobs-economy-covid/7847271001/)

Don't expect Trump to back down: A lengthy career of criminality and litigation has prepared him for this war.

I suspect we will learn little if anything that we didn't know before, except perhaps a bit more about the timeline and the degree of stalling engaged in by the former president and his cronies. Now that the DOJ has complied, Reinhart has ordered that the redacted affidavit be released and shared with the public by 12 noon Eastern time on Friday. What Trump has successfully learned over five decades of lawlessness and impunity is that the best defense against any opponent is a strong offense. Their responses are due back to Judge Cannon, a Trump appointee, by the end of this week. He has also been sued for breaches of trust, money laundering, defamation, stiffing his creditors and defaulting on loans. [review and return evidence](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-fbi-fourth-amendment-special-master-attorney/) collected during last week's FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago estate."

The Justice Department is set to release a heavily blacked-out document explaining the justification for an FBI search of Donald Trump's Florida estate ...

The Justice Department had earlier contested arguments by media organizations to make any portion of the affidavit public, saying the disclosure could contain private information about witnesses and about investigative tactics. The other statutes address the concealment, mutilation or removal of records and the destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations. Yet even a redacted affidavit can contain at least some fresh revelations about the investigation, and is likely to help explain why federal agents who had tried for months to recover sensitive government records from Mar-a-Lago ultimately felt compelled to obtain a search warrant. [Documents already made public](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22131425-mar-a-lago-search-documents) show the FBI retrieved from the property 11 sets of classified documents, including information marked at the top secret level. Affidavits typically contain vital information about an investigation, with agents spelling out to a judge the justification for why they want to search a particular property and why they believe they’re likely to find evidence of a potential crime there. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart on Thursday ordered the department by Friday to make public a redacted version of the affidavit.

It is unclear how extensive the redactions will be, but the document will provide insights into how the department came to pursue classified documents that ...

Trump’s Florida home this month and recovered government documents that should have been left in the custody of the National Archives when he left office, agents were executing a warrant that referred to three federal laws. Right-wing critics contend that his approval of the search warrant was a partisan attempt to harass a former president. Trump had held on to and flagged the incident to the Justice Department for guidance. The National Archives later said that at the end of the Trump administration Bratt subsequently emailed the lawyer and told him to further secure the documents in the storage area with a stronger padlock. May 6: The general counsel of the National Archives reached out to three lawyers who had worked with Mr. Bush, a Republican, and Bill Clinton, a Democrat, said the process of identifying presidential records and sending them to the archives begins months, if not years, before a president leaves the White House for the final time at noon on Jan. Information placed within a SAP is available to only a handful of high-level officials, including the president and top national security personnel. Trump to have avoided what’s become a legal conflagration would have been to simply turn over to the National Archives that government papers he’d kept at Mar-a-Lago. Instead, they are intended to limit the number of people who have access to secret or top secret materials. The government is not required to show it to them. It is unclear how extensive the redactions will be, but the document will provide insights into how the department came to pursue classified documents that ended up at Mar-a-Lago.

The Justice Department was ordered to release by noon Friday a redacted version of the affidavit justifying the search of Trump's Florida estate.

He [sought the return of the documents](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/22/trump-lawyers-seek-special-master-oversee-document-inquiry/7869901001/). ] [Trump blasted the search as a partisan witch hunt](https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/politics/2022/08/19/trump-claims-about-fbi-mar-a-lago-search/10342546002/) and said he was cooperating with authorities. In the lawsuit, Trump seeks to halt the government’s review of documents seized during the search on Aug. The filing accused Attorney General Merrick Garland of using the search to play politics with the November elections. Trump said there was “no way” to justify the search of Mar-a-Lago, even though FBI agents seized boxes of government documents – including 11 sets of classified records. national security.” Assessments may also be conducted “when there is an actual or suspected loss, misuse, or unauthorized access to or modification of classified national intelligence that could adversely affect national security,” according to the 2104 policy. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart authorized the search for evidence of potential mishandling defense documents and obstruction of justice. national security was threatened by his predecessor’s storage of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.] [“We’ll let the Justice Department determine that,” Biden said at a White House event marking Women’s Equality Day.] “As this Court noted, if information relating to witnesses were disclosed, "it is likely that even witnesses who are not expressly named in the Affidavit would be quickly and broadly identified over social media and other communication channels, which could lead to them being harassed and intimidated." “Exposure of witnesses' identities would likely erode their trust in the government's investigation, and it would almost certainly chill other potential witnesses from coming forward in this investigation and others.”] The department had opposed the affidavit’s release, arguing it could hurt the investigation into why government documents, including hundreds of pages of classified records, were stored at Mar-a-Lago. After three sealed documents were filed Friday in the search case, Reinhart ordered the redacted documents unsealed.

FILE - A supporter of former President Donald Trump drives past his Mar-a-Lago estate, Aug. 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida, as the FBI conducts a search of the ...

archivist Debra Wall wrote that the boxes included more than 100 classified documents consisting of more than 700 pages. government and must be turned over to the National Archives by outgoing presidents. In a May 10 letter to a Trump lawyer, acting U.S. The August 8 search of Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate in Florida, during which FBI agents removed 11 sets of classified documents, some of them labeled top secret, has triggered a political firestorm, with Trump and his allies accusing the Biden administration of “weaponizing” law enforcement against him. The redactions were made under seal and can't be seen by the public. Just what details about the investigation the affidavit will reveal remains to be seen.

The sworn affidavit, which has been heavily redacted, was used to substantiate the FBI's search for classified documents at the former president's estate.

Next, Trump’s allies claimed he had always had a “standing order” to declassify anything and everything he removed from the White House. But Steidel Wall dismissed the move outright, saying in a letter, “The question in this case is not a close one. He returned some 700 pages of material in January to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Perhaps most disturbingly, Trump had a batch of “classified documents relating to nuclear weapons,” a source told The Washington Post. He then denied the Post report about nuclear documents, and dubbed the entire thing a “hoax.” “I believe based on my initial careful review of the affidavit many times, that there are portions that could preemptively be unsealed.”

Court filing says many witnesses have been interviewed by the FBI; some classified papers sent to the National Archives in January appear to contain Trump's ...

UPDATE: A redacted version of the affidavit used to justify the Aug. 8 search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property was unsealed on Friday.

Trump claimed on his Truth Social platform that he did “nothing wrong” and that the search of his home was illegal. The release was ordered by noon on Friday. 8 search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property, in which FBI agents retrieved 11 sets of classified documents.

The Justice Department revealed a redacted copy of the affidavit used to obtain a search warrant for former President Donald Trump's home Mar-a-Lago.

The judge accepted the DOJ's redactions later that day. Reinhart disagreed, and ordered the government to propose redactions to U.S. The reason for that recusal was not clear, news outlets reported, but Trump claimed it was "based on his animosity and hatred of your favorite President, me." The affidavit did not detail the specific content of documents it expected to find. The warrant indicated that FBI agents were looking for materials showing violations of laws against obstruction of justice and the removal of official records, as well as the U.S. A federal judge had ordered the key document's release over the objections of the DOJ, which argued it contains highly sensitive facts about the ongoing criminal investigation into Trump. The search warrant itself was revealed voluntarily by the DOJ less than a week after the Aug. By law, presidential records must be turned over to the National Archives when a president departs office. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart accepted the DOJ's proposed redactions to the affidavit one day before it was made public. The government said last week that the Mar-a-Lago raid is part of a probe that "implicates national security" and is still in its "early stages." In a social media post after the redacted affidavit was released, Trump accused the FBI and DOJ of "public relations subterfuge" by the fact that the word "Nuclear" did not appear in the document — though he also noted that it was "heavily redacted!!!" [heavily redacted copy of the affidavit](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/26/read-trump-raid-search-warrant-affidavit.html) used to obtain a search warrant for former President [Donald Trump](https://www.cnbc.com/donald-trump/)'s home Mar-a-Lago.

Federal investigators obtained a search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month by pointing to a raft of highly ...

The Justice Department argued against making even a redacted version of the affidavit public, warning that redactions needed to protect the integrity of the investigation and to prevent harm to individuals would be so extensive as to render the document meaningless. Both Reinhart and the Justice Department have noted an uptick in violent threats against those connected to the Trump probe as they laid out their rationale for redactions. In an order issued a short time later, the judge said that prosecutors had shown “good cause” to redact elements of the affidavit that would reveal “the identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents, and uncharged parties,” as well as “the investigation’s strategy, direction, scope, sources, and methods” and “grand jury information.” Ultimately the department resorted to getting a search warrant in order to try and obtain the materials it believed remained at Mar-a-Lago. “As I previously indicated to you, Mar-a-Lago does not include a secure location authorized for the storage of classified information,” DOJ wrote in a letter to Corcoran at the time. When prosecutors sought the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago, they included Corcoran’s letter in their submission to Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart. Notably, the letter came before a June 3 meeting between Trump, his attorneys and DOJ officials at Mar-a-Lago, where the department’s counterintelligence chief Jay Bratt and FBI agents viewed parts of the premises. Those arguments came in the form of a three-page, May 25 letter from Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran. The Department of Justice (DOJ), as part of the Executive Branch, is under the control of a President from the opposite party. Trump is a leader of the Republican Party. Records the FBI obtained from Trump’s Florida home in advance of the Aug. According to the affidavit, NARA officials found some of those “highly classified records were unfoldered, intermixed with other records, and otherwise unproperly [sic] identified.”

The affidavit, which contains many redactions, details the "probable cause" investigators laid out to obtain the warrant for former President Trump's ...

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Donald Trump kept dozens of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort, including top secret intelligence information, according to a document released ...

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The Justice Department has released a redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit. Follow here for the latest live news updates.

"This is a disgrace to our country... We were broken into. We were essentially attacked.

Document cites 184 classified documents Trump earlier held · Affidavit underpinned Aug. 8 FBI search of Trump's home · Redacted affidavit was released after media ...

The affidavit mentioned an article published in May by Kash Patel, a former Trump administration official who called media reports about the National Archives identifying classified material at Mar-a-Lago "misleading." Trump had not declassified the documents," Fox told Reuters. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who approved the search warrant based on the affidavit, on Thursday ordered the release of a redacted version. In the affidavit, an unidentified FBI agent said the agency reviewed and identified 184 documents "bearing classification markings" containing "national defense information" after Trump in January returned 15 boxes of government records sought by the U.S. But after media organizations sued to make it public U.S. Other records in those boxes, according to the affidavit, bore handwritten notes by Trump. 8 search of Trump's Florida residence in which agents seized 11 sets of classified records including some labeled "top secret" as documents that could gravely threaten national security if exposed. The FBI agent said in the affidavit that a preliminary review in May of records the Archives earlier received from Trump found 184 "unique documents" labeled as classified - 67 marked "confidential," 92 marked "secret" and 25 marked "top secret." Other defense-related records Trump had returned contained references to topics including "clandestine human sources" who help U.S. Some completely blacked out. WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. domestic surveillance program.

The government tried repeatedly for more than a year and a half to get the former president to give back documents from his time in office.

Mr. According to Mr. Christina Bobb, another of Mr. Nonetheless, Mr. The Justice Department tells Mr. Gast sends Mr. Trump, sends the Justice Department a letter asking that the department consider a few “principles,” including the claim that Mr. The archives makes a public statement about Mr. Officials at the archives warn Mr. Two days before Mr. Stern, the archives’ general counsel, emails Mr. Mark Meadows, Mr.