Read It: Mar-a-Lago Affidavit Released With Redactions

After days of waiting and a flurry of motions from the Department of Justice attempting to keep the affidavit used in the FBI's raid of Mar-a-Lago sealed indefinitely, a redacted affidavit was finally released on Friday afternoon just before the 12:00 p.m. ET deadline set by federal Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart. There was such a rush to view the affidavit, however, that the government's website where federal court records are posted completely crashed for nearly 30 minutes.

Once the site recovered, the affidavit was revealed to be a 38-page document that is heavily redacted — despite Judge Reinhart saying that the FBI's redactions are "narrowly tailored" — leaving even more questions still unanswered. In all, 20+ pages are entirely or significantly redacted.

What remains un-redacted is a narrative of what most already knew: the government is conducting a criminal investigation concerning the improper removal and storage of classified information in unauthorized spaces, as well as the unlawful concealment or removal of government records that began after the National Archives and Records Administration referred the matter to the Justice Department on February 9, 2022.

The affidavit also mentions a CBS Miami news article about moving trucks being "Spotted at Mar-a-Lago," a statement by Trump about the Archives' requests for documents, and significant chunks of text and presumably images that the government's case is based on entirely blacked-out.

In a memorandum that was also unsealed Friday, the government's case for its redactions to the affidavit is *also* heavily redacted. The government cited witness information, a road map for its investigation into Trump, potential disclosure of a matter before a grand jury, law enforcement safety, and broad "privacy interests" as its basis for redacting the affidavit. "In short, the government has well-founded concerns that steps may be taken to frustrate or otherwise interfere with this investigation if facts in the affidavit were prematurely disclosed," the memo explains

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/08/26/read-it-maralago-affidavit-released-with-redactions-n2612226?utm_source=breakingemail

The questions remain:

- They knew in January 2021 when Trump left the White House that he was taking the boxes. Why didn't they seize them then?

- They visited Mar-a-Lago in June and looked in all the boxes. Why didn't they seize them then? (Instead they told Trump to keep them and to make sure the room where he was storing them stayed locked.)

- Why did they raid Trump’s home in the early hours of the morning with several cameras at the ready and filming, knowing full well that Trump was not there?

-Why did they wait 18 months to seize dicuments they claim were a threat to our national security?

- Why did they ask the staff to turn off the inside security cameras?

- Why did they tell Trump's lawyers to wait outside while they took NINE hours to search his home?

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The FBI RAID scoped everything from Mara Lago, a gross violation of Amendment IV. Without the presence of the owner. Perhaps the FBI planted evidences in the box to indict Trump since they have been doing that to the president Trump. since 2016.

President Trump has been the victim of harassments and assaults starting 2016, as the FBI'S, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama, Pelosi, plotted on his demise to rid of him. These people planted evidences and fabricated evidences to accuse Trump.

I hope the camera took the pictures while the FBI's ransacked the Safe and room of Mrs. Trump's personal wardrobe including her bras and panties. How savage the FBI'S are. I call them savages.

This raid was a gross violation of any citizen of the United States. And much more so to a former president of the United States. FBI's acted like CCP.

The culprits there are Merrick Garland, Wray, and the friend of Obama Judge. And of course with advice from Joe Biden.

The redacted Affidavit serves no purpose since there is nothing left to read. Twenty pages provided, out of 38 pages. All 20 pages were blotted out with few letter at the top of each pages are left to see. Merrick Garland blotted all of them out to hide their crimes. Afraid, to disclose the crimes they committed against former president Donald Trump.