Trump Calls for Immediate Release of Unredacted Affidavit Justifying FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Raid

Katabella RobertsAugust 16, 2022

Former President Donald Trump has called for the immediate release of the unredacted affidavit that led to the approval of a search warrant at his Florida Mar-a-Lago home.

Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, late in the evening on Aug. 15 where he said releasing the affidavit would be in the interest of transparency.

“There is no way to justify the unannounced RAID of Mar-a-Lago, the home of the 45th President of the United States (who got more votes, by far, than any sitting President in the history of our Country!), by a very large number of gun-toting FBI Agents, and the Department of ‘Justice,’” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “But, in the interest of TRANSPARENCY, I call for the immediate release of the completely Unredacted Affidavit pertaining to this horrible and shocking BREAK-IN.”

The 45th President also called for the judge on the case to be recused from the case.

His call for the affidavit to be released comes after President Joe Biden’s administration on Aug. 15 asked a federal court to keep it shielded from the public, stating that releasing it would “irreparably harm the government’s ongoing criminal investigation.”

“If disclosed, the affidavit would serve as a roadmap to the government’s ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course, in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps,” lawyers for the Justice Department wrote in a 13-page filing to U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart.

Judge Reinhart is overseeing the case and approved the search warrant on Aug. 5.

Investigation Integrity Needs To Be Protected

“Even when the public is already aware of the general nature of the investigation, revealing the specific contents of a search warrant affidavit could alter the investigation’s trajectory, reveal ongoing