The U.S. Justice Department just released a redacted version of the FBI affidavit used to justify the August 8 search of the Mar-a-Lago and, wow.The release of the affidavit was approved by U.S.
Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart who said it could be unsealed after the DOJ submitted its proposed redactions. Reinhart, a Trump appointee, also approved the warrant that initially allowed FBI agents to search Trump’s Florida property in the first place.Related: Some totally creepy sh*t has been going down at Mar-a-Lago for years, new book claimsAgents removed several boxes of highly classified documents, much to the ex-president’s chagrin.
Now, thanks to the 36-page affidavit being released, we have a better idea of what those documents were and, um, holy sh*t. Politico reports:Records the FBI obtained from Trump’s Florida home in advance of the Aug.
8 search bore indications they contained human source intelligence, intercepts under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and signals intelligence, as well as other tags indicating high sensitivity.