A federal court has agreed to make public the search warrant for Donald Trump’s property Mar-a-Lago, reports the Reuters news agency. The former president is being investigated for possible violations of the Espionage Act, writes AFP. Eleven sets of classified documents were seized by FBI agents who searched the luxury property, according to a receipt for the seizures, which was also released. The FBI retrieved a total of about 20 boxes of artifacts, photo albums and a handwritten note. The FBI agents are said to have also found information about French President Emmanuel Macron, writes The Guardian. Receipts for seizures made at Trump. Photo: Jon Elswick / AP Some of the documents that were seized were marked as top secret and should therefore only be available in special public buildings, according to the Wall Street Journal. Avisa is among several American media that say they got access to the material before it was made public. The released court documents do not provide specific details about the seized documents or what kind of information they contained. Trump believes he is the victim of a witch hunt, which for the time being peaked when federal agents raided his home in Florida. In a statement on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump claims the documents seized were declassified and safely stored. He also says that he would hand them over to the Ministry of Justice if they had asked for it. Would not stop publication The documents were released by Bruce Reinhart, a federal judge in Florida. It was he who issued the order, at the request of the Ministry of Justice. US Attorney General Merrick Garland asked on Thursday evening that the court should make public the search warrant and the list of seizures, due to the high interest in the case. – Publish the documents now! wrote Trump himself in a message on Truth Social on Thursday night. On Tuesday this week, the luxury property Mar-a-Lago was searched by FBI agents. Photo: Steve Helber / AP On Friday evening, it became clear that Trump would not oppose the publication. His lawyers had until 21:00 Norwegian time to officially make objections. The Washington Post has previously reported that the FBI agents who searched Trump’s residence should have been looking for documents about nuclear weapons. Avisa writes that it is not clear whether the documents the FBI was looking for were about American nuclear weapons, or about other states’ weapons arsenals. It is also not clear whether such documents were actually found. Trump denies this, and calls the reports about nuclear weapons a hoax.
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