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The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday released a redacted version of a 38-page affidavit which supported the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida earlier this month.
The affidavit was heavily redacted, but revealed that the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach was prompted by the agency's review of 15 boxes of materials that Trump turned over to the National Archives in January, a year after leaving office.
The boxes that Trump had retained contained documents marked "top secret."
The affidavit said the Justice Department sought to search Mar-a-Lago due to concerns that Trump's retention of highly classified documents could compromise "clandestine human sources."
The complete document released by the DOJ can be accessed here.
This content originally appeared on Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community and was authored by Julia Conley.
Julia Conley | Radio Free (2022-08-26T16:33:02+00:00) DOJ Releases 38-Page Redacted Affidavit Related to Search of Trump’s Mar-A-Lago. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2022/08/26/doj-releases-38-page-redacted-affidavit-related-to-search-of-trumps-mar-a-lago/
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