A federal judge has officially ordered the partially-redacted affidavit explaining justification for FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property unsealed.
Trump is referred to in the affidavit as “FPOTUS.”
In the 15 boxes taken from Mar-a-Lago, the Justice Department says “of most significant concern was that highly classified records were unfoldered, intermixed with other records, and otherwise unproperly identified.”
“There is probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain classified NDI or that are Presidential records subject to record retention … remain at the PREMISES. There is also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the PREMISES.”
Agents discovered that many of the materials included the highest national security restrictions with foreign governments, to protect “clandestine human sources” employed by intelligence community to collect information around the world.
“Based on the foregoing facts and circumstances, I submit that probable cause exists to believe that evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed in violation 18 U.S.C. §§ 793(e), 2071, or 1519 will be found at the PREMISES.”
Matthew Miller: “All of it is bad, but Trump having documents derived from human intelligence (i.e. spies) floating around Mar-a-Lago is about the worst imaginable offense in this space.”
Throwing cold water on Donald Trump’s claims that he declassified the documents in the affidavit is a letter from Trump attorneys that reads the president “can” declassify material not Trump “did” declassify.