Read the Search Warrant for Mar-a-Lago for Yourself

A federal choose in Florida has unsealed the search warrant served on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-lago property Monday in what Justice Department officers mentioned was an try by the FBI to reclaim categorized supplies improperly faraway from the White House final 12 months.

A whole copy of the warrant and receipts for the objects seized by FBI, which seems to have included extremely categorized supplies — some above the “top secret” degree — is embedded under. One noteworthy doc signifies the FBI’s investigation encompasses multiple criminal statutes, together with a provision of the Espionage Act that outlaws the unauthorized “gathering, transmitting or losing” of U.S. protection info.

The 7-page doc, sealed till Friday within the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, reveals the FBI’s search of Trump’s non-public membership and residence included the previous president’s workplace, storage rooms, and another areas open to the previous president and his employees. The FBI was not allowed to enter areas occupied or rented by the membership’s different members, the paperwork says.

“They even broke into my safe,” the president mentioned in a press release the day of the raid.

The FBI sought paperwork with categorized marking in addition to data coated below the President Records Act, a post-Watergate regulation aimed toward stopping the destruction of White House data. (Only the National Archives and Records Administration can authorize the destruction of data created throughout a presidency, and can solely accomplish that when the data not have “administrative, historical, informational, or evidentiary value.”)

The brokers had been additionally after any communications that may pertain to the switch or storage of nationwide protection info or categorized materials, the paperwork reveals.

The final three pages of the doc comprise receipts itemizing the supplies seized from the property. They embody quite a few unspecified paperwork and containers, together with the doc Trump signed granting his longtime confidant Roger Stone clemency after he was convicted of mendacity to Congress.

Among the seized objects are quite a few paperwork categorized “secret” and “top secret”. Some are “top secret” and “compartmentalized”, that means they comprise categorized info dealt with utilizing particular management programs designed to reduce publicity even on the highest ranges of presidency. Compartmentalized paperwork can embody details about intelligence sources and strategies.

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