WASHINGTON — Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate early this year contained documents with classification markings, including at the top secret level.
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That’s according to an FBI affidavit released Friday explaining the justification for this month’s search of the property.
The 32-page affidavit, even in its redacted form, offers the most detailed description to date of the government records being stored at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property long after he left the White House.
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It also reveals the gravity of the government’s concerns that the documents were there illegally.
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See the redacted affidavit below:
Mar-A-Lago search warrant affidavit by Charles Frazier on Scribd
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