BREAKING: Donald Trump's lawyers agreed to the release of the warrant the FBI used to seize documents from Mar-a-Lago
Thursday that the Justice Department had filed a motion to push for the documents' unsealing after the former president publicly confirmed the search of his Mar-a-Lago resort earlier this week. Trump himselflate Thursday in a statement that he encouraged the warrant's release. On Friday, he posted on Truth Social that the documents were"all declassified" and the FBI"didn't need to 'seize anything.
UNITED STATES - JANUARY 22: Aerial view of Mar-a-Lago, the oceanfront estate of billionaire Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Fla. The FBI's search of Trump's property on Monday was connected to a federal probe into Trump's handling of presidential records.
The warrant was then authorized by a judge in South Florida"upon the required finding of probable cause," according to Garland, and copies of the warrant and a list of property seized by the FB were provided to Trump's attorneys. The Justice Department's decision later to ask the court to make the warrant public was made"in light of the former president's public confirmation of the search, the surrounding circumstances and the substantial interest in this matter," the attorney general also explained
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