On Wednesday, a federal magistrate judge unsealed the search warrant that was used to obtain sensitive documents from former President Donald J. Trump’s private club and residence in Florida, providing explosive new information about the extraordinary raid that had taken place.
The FBI began their investigation into the Mar-a-Lago estate after receiving information that there was sensitive material located onsite. A confidential informant reported seeing computers with “security features,” indicating that they may contain classified information or other important data.
An individual associated with the Trump Organization reportedly asked informants if they could help retrieve documents from one of the computers at Mar-a-Lago. This led investigators to believe that there were potential violations of federal laws taking place at this location, prompting them to obtain a search warrant before proceeding with their investigation.
During the raid, investigators seized several items including laptops and external hard drives containing classified materials as well as financial records belonging to both President Trump and his businesses.
They have been kept under wraps, until now.
“The newly unredacted sections of the affidavit suggested that prosecutors had based their search, in part, on surveillance footage from cameras near a storage room in the basement of Mar-a-Lago showing Walt Nauta, a personal aide to Mr. Trump, moving dozens of boxes in and out of the room days before federal prosecutors arrived to collect any sensitive records still in Mr. Trump’s possession,” the New York Times reported.
“Much of the material in the affidavit unsealed on Wednesday had already been made public in the expansive indictment of Mr. Trump and Mr. Nauta issued in Miami last month. That indictment charged the former president with 31 counts of illegally retaining national defense information and a separate count of conspiring with Mr. Nauta to obstruct the government’s efforts to reclaim them.
The judge who ordered the unsealing, Bruce E. Reinhart, had issued two previous orders unsealing separate portions of the warrant affidavit in response to media requests,” the NYT report added.
Below is a NEW photo showing 61 boxes of material in a Mar-a-Lago storeroom:
The warrant says, of the photo, “The purpose of the photograph was to show FPOTUS the volume of boxes that remained in the STORAGE ROOM. The STORAGE-PHOTO, which appears below, captures approximately sixty-one of the FPOTUS BOXES located in the STORAGE ROOM.”
The warrant also contains detailed descriptions of surveillance footage showing Trump co-defendant Walt Nauta moving boxes out of a storage room:
By reviewing the camera footage provided by the Trump Organization in response to the subpoena, the FBI has determined the following: On May 24, 2022, WITNESS 5 is observed exiting the ANTEROOM doorway with three boxes.
On May 30, 2022, four days after WITNESS 5’s interview with the FBI during which the location of boxes was a significant subject of questioning, WITNESS 5 is observed exiting the ANTEROOM doorway with approximately fifty Bankers boxes, consistent with the description of the FPOTUS BOXES. FBI did not observe this quantity of boxes being returned to the STORAGE ROOM through the ANTEROOM entrance in its review of the footage.
The next day, on June 1, 2022, WITNESS 5 is observed carrying eleven brown cardboard boxes out the ANTEROOM entrance. One box did not have a lid on it and appeared to contain papers.
The day after that, on June 2, 2022, WITNESS 5 is observed moving twenty-five to thirty boxes, some of which were brown cardboard boxes and others of which were Bankers boxes consistent with the description of the FPOTUS BOXES, into the entrance of the ANTEROOM.
Approximately three and a half hours later, WITNESS 5 is observed escorting FPOTUS COUNSEL 1 in through the entrance of the ANTEROOM, and FPOTUS COUNSEL 1 is not observed leaving until approximately two and a half hours later.
On June 3, 2022, FPOTUS COUNSEL 1 is escorted through the ANTEROOM entrance by an unidentified individual wearing a jacket with “USSS POLICE” printed on the back. The unidentified individual and FPOTUS COUNSEL 1 exit the ANTEROOM entrance moments later. FPOTUS COUNSEL 1 appeared to be carrying a Redweld envelope after exiting the ANTEROOM.
So…didn’t say what was in the boxes…doesn’t pass the so what test!
It’s OK if Biden has sensitive material at his place. Why, because he’s the leader of the niggeRAT party.
Keep in mind this is occurring in a practical island that is guarded and gated with supplemental security from the US Secret Service. And may very well have been deemed declassified by the FPOTUS like all other ex presidents have done. However some way this is scandalous. Not buying it at all.
Did I Read that they were in a Storage Room where do you think they are supposed to be stored?? and they run everybody out including Secret Service people and then they could place boxes anywhere and take Pictures to and to try to let people know Trump broke Laws but has not they are his Papers he had the Right to them and Joe Biden did not he stole his and Mike Pence too let get the Record Straight Obama has his too
In a storage room… Well, they actually thought the documents were stored in Melania’s underwear drawer and according to MSM reports more than a dozen heavily armed Agents spent several hours in there!
“During the raid, investigators seized several items including laptops and external hard drives containing classified materials as well as financial records belonging to both President Trump and his businesses.”
What is the source for this??? This is the first time I seen anyone report the FBI took computers an d hard drives. It certainly DID NOT come from the search warrant as all that information is before the raid.
Also, the picture taken to show FPOTUS the volume of the boxes at Mar-A-Lago is a nonsensical statement. These boxes were at the FPOTUS residence. Why would they need to show him a picture of what is in his home???
What we of course don’t know is what exactly was in those boxes and whether any of it was classified at the time (2021 and 2022).
What we don’t know is what was in the boxes when they left Trump’s residence as opposed to what the FBI says they found in them. Without a detailed inventory, the FBI is going to have to prove Trump actually had what ever docs they claim he should not have had.
Bjden is the criminal and Trump was illegally discriminated against as whistle blowers have testified from FBI that proper protocols were not followed. Looks like the Dems have broken every law they could.
Where is the bombshell leak? It’s been weeks, by now I would have expected to have heard about launch codes or military secrets that Trump had lying around in unsecured boxes.
Interesting they count 61 boxes but there was much more movement if you count what they claim they have video of Mr Naut doing. And what he was doing was being done before the sneak raid. He had no way of knowing a raid was imminent.
Bunch of bs