On Thursday, a court ordered the publication of a redacted version of the FBI affidavit used to justify the August 8 search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, during which FBI agents seized 11 sets of classified information
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The order by U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart came after the Justice Department presented a suggested redacted version of the affidavit, which was used to demonstrate to the court why a search warrant for the Trump property was required.
Reinhart concluded that the DOJ had “met its burden” of demonstrating why elements of the affidavit should be withheld, such as that the information was confidential.
The release was scheduled for Friday at noon. The Justice Department, which initially resisted the publication of the document, can yet file an appeal.
Reinhart ordered the search warrant and property receipt, which detailed what was taken from the Trump property, to be unsealed earlier this month.
On his Truth Social platform, Trump stated that he did “nothing wrong” and that the search of his residence was illegal. The decision came after months of disagreement between Trump’s staff, the Justice Department, and the National Archives about his grievances with the Presidential Documents Act, which states that presidential records belong to the government, not the former president.
