Mar-a-Lago Raid's Redacted Affidavit Approved to Be Made Public by Friday After DOJ Pushback

After back-and-forth conversations on whether to release the non-redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago affidavit, Judge Bruce Reinhart has given his go signal for the US Department of Justice to publicize the censored version.

The Mar-a-Lago affidavit, which contains the contents of the recovered documents that the FBI seized in former President Donald Trump's Florida mansion, has been the subject of worry for the DOJ of its possibility of revealing sensitive information to the public that might impede the investigation.

Contents of the eleven boxes seized in Trump's Mar-a-Lago mansion are still blurry to the public; with various claims from different sources emerging, the FBI or the DOJ has yet to confirm the reports.

Judge Bruce Reinhart Orders Unsealing of Redacted Mar-a-Lago Affidavit

According to Fox News, Judge Bruce Reinhart, the federal judge who inked the search warrant to search Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago mansion last August 8, has ordered the DOJ to unseal the highly-controversial redacted version of the affidavit by Friday noon.

Reinhart publicized the warrant in the past few weeks due to the media's demand for transparency. However, the DOJ sparked worry about the unsealing, noting that it could reveal their sources or any sensitive information that may be crucial to the ongoing investigation.

Earlier today, Reinhart issued the order to unseal the redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago affidavit.

"I have reviewed the government's memorandum of law and proposed redactions to the search warrant affidavit. I am fully advised in the entire record, including the contents of the affidavit," the judge said in a statement.

Judge Reinhart has declined the government's suggestion to seal the Mar-a-Lago affidavit because of its "intense public and historical interest" over the FBI's raid on Trump's Florida estate, which was described to be "unprecedented."

In reviewing the turned-over affidavit that the DOJ has presented to Reinhart for redaction suggestion, he decided that the document already showed a compelling reason and "good cause" to seal parts of the Mar-a-Lago affidavit.

Like DOJ's initial request, they pointed out that the affidavit would reveal their witnesses' identities, including law enforcement agents that were already targeted by harassment, among many others. DOJ also pushed forward to seal the parts where the ongoing investigation's "strategy, direction, scope, sources, and methods."

What Do the Mar-a-Lago Documents Contain?

As of this writing, neither the DOJ nor the FBI has confirmed what the actual contents of the Mar-a-Lago documents were. Per The Washington Post, an insider close to the scene says some documents seized were about nuclear weaponry.

However, former Defense Secretary Chief of Staff Kash Patel said earlier this week that the documents have something to do with "Russiagate" and former State Secretary Hillary Clinton's email scandal.

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Written by: Ivan Korrs

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