Takeaways from the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit
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The affidavit behind the FBI's search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago, annotated
The largest piece of the puzzle about why FBI agents searched former president Donald Trump’s residence is out: the affidavit submitted to warrant the search
The largest piece of the puzzle about why FBI agents searched former president Donald Trump’s residence is out
The court filing unsealed Friday went into previously unknown detail about the classified information found in boxes retrieved from Trump's Florida resort in January
Agents believed Mar-a-Lago housed more classified documents, evidence of ‘obstruction’
That’s an astonishing amount of classified material, legal experts said
But the affidavit states that the National Archives spent six months in the latter half of 2021 trying to get more documents
It also firmed up aspects of the timeline about how the investigation unfolded
“It’s highly unusual that this is even happening, period,” Sharman said.