MIAMI — A newly released version of an FBI affidavit for a search warrant of Donald Trump’s Palm Beach estate adds a few key details of how and when investigators discovered and obtained security camera footage that shows boxes allegedly filled with classified documents being moved around his Mar-a-Lago property.
The information in the affidavit was sought by media organizations after the former president was charged in South Florida last month with deliberately retaining classified materials from the U.S. government. Justice Department prosecutors agreed to disclose some additional portions of the 39-page affidavit for the search warrant dated Aug. 5, 2022, though many parts are still redacted, according to an order issued late Wednesday by Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart in West Palm Beach federal court.
The Justice Department’s probe had ramped up in May of last year when a federal grand jury issued an initial subpoena for classified documents that Trump had moved from the White House to his residence and club at Mar-a-Lago.
