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FORMER PRESIDENT Donald Trump reacted Friday to the disclosure of a redacted version of the affidavit with the grounds that justified the search of his Florida mansion, assuring that he did nothing wrong and that what happened is a political attack.
The former president claimed via Truth Social that Mar-a-Lago was raided, safes were opened, and everything happened just because of the November midterm elections.
Trump stressed that the affidavit made public is heavily redacted and without any mention of nuclear weaponry, so he called what happened a total public relations subterfuge on the part of the FBI and the DOJ.
The so-called “affidavit” was released with much of the text hidden and many sections covered up after federal Judge Bruce E Reinhart, sitting in Florida, authorized the release of a shortened version on Thursday.
Well this really clears things up. pic.twitter.com/6S2FxIQtSi
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 26, 2022
The Department of Justice presented this version to the judge after warning at a hearing on August 18 of the risks to “national security” of the full disclosure of the text.
The former Republican president, 76, reiterated that his Mar-a-Lago home was raided despite the fact that the agents could have talked to them and taken what they needed.
The DOJ’s version
The DOJ released Friday a redacted version of the document outlining the reasons that justified the search earlier this month at the home of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) in Florida by FBI agents, which led to the discovery of 25 allegedly “top-secret” documents.
The affidavit was made public with much of the text concealed and with many sections blacked out to supposedly not produce an adverse impact on the government’s search for relevant evidence.
Among the documentation, some 184 classified documents were discovered, including 67 documents marked confidential, 92 marked secret and 25 documents marked TOP SECRET, according to the document made public on Friday.
