WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump said he supports releasing documents similar to the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago home earlier this week, adding a copy of the search warrant and a receipt for the pieces officials disposed of the property. .
Trump made the announcement Thursday on his social media site, Truth Social, following a request from the Justice Department in a Florida court to release the documents.
“Not only will I not oppose the release of documents similar to the raid and raid on my home in Palm Beach, Florida, Mar-a-Lapass, unjustified, unnecessary and unjustified outside the U. S. of those documents,” Trump said in the post.
Trump’s resolve to agree to release the search warrant, anything he has had a chance to do himself since the search took a stand Monday, ends a public debate between the former president’s legal team and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The Justice Department’s policy has long been not to speak publicly about ongoing investigations, but Garland took the step Thursday of pronouncing that he had “personally approved” the investigation, which Trump had first announced after its launch.
Federal agents searched Trump’s Florida as part of an investigation into whether the former president had illegal presidential records that were meant to be deposited in the National Archives once he left office, adding potentially classified documents, according to others familiar with the matter.
On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that a category of documents the FBI was seeking were similar to transparent weapons. It is unclear whether they were U. S. weapons or weapons belonging to some other country, and if they were part of the documents seized through the agents.
Mismanagement of classified data can result in a number of federal scam charges, and data similar to nuclear weapons and generation are sensitive. Justice Department Export and Counterintelligence Section Chief Jay Bratt signed the government’s record to reveal the order visited Mar-a-Lago earlier this summer to review documents in Trump’s possession.
In trying to share the search warrant documents with the public, DOJ officials explained that they no longer believed in the typical reasons implemented for keeping this information secret: making sure there is no interference with the search and keeping an ongoing investigation secret. DOJ lawyers said the search is now a thing of the afterlife and that Trump and his supporters have made the information about it public.
“The public’s transparent and hard interest in what happened in those cases weighs heavily in favor of openness,” the Justice Department said in the case.
To conduct the search at Mar-a-Lago, prosecutors had to seek approval for a federal investigation. be a likely cause that the search would reveal evidence similar to the activity of the offenders; it does not mean that the pass passes judgment on the discovered proof that a specific user had committed a crime.
The Justice Department has asked the U. S. judge to do so. USA Bruce Reinhart, who sits in West Palm Beach, Florida, to reveal in particular a copy of the search warrant, which would include data on the general scope of the search and could include data on express federal crimes. under investigation, and a receipt that FBI agents left in the directory the pieces they took from the property. The release of those documents would not come with a copy of an affidavit that prosecutors would file, describing a more complete account of the possible criminal conduct involved.
Reinhart acted quickly and ordered the Justice Department to consult with Trump and his lawyers and tell the court within 24 hours whether Trump would oppose the request.
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