Former President Donald Trump asked a federal judge to order the U.S. Justice Department to hand over an unredacted version of the August affidavit used to secure a search warrant for his Mar-a-Lago estate, arguing it must be checked for accuracy or “misleading omissions.”
Trump made the request in a filing Tuesday in federal court in Florida before the same judge who appointed a “special master” to review thousands of missing White House records retrieved by the FBI from his home during the unprecedented search.
The former president argued that the affidavit may be inaccurate if it doesn’t properly highlight his purported cooperation with the National Archives in late 2021 and early 2022, when Trump voluntarily returned 15 boxes of material. Trump also renewed his argument — which the government disputes — that he was permitted to declassify any White House records he wanted under federal law and take them with him.
