The entry and registration at the Mar-a-Lago mansion reveals one of the maxims of its owner, Donald Trump.
The former president of the United States demands absolute loyalty from his people. The affidavit – or affidavit in which the search request for secret documents is justified – underlines that there are cracks in the Trump world and confirms that the investigators had the support of moles or internal informants.
That of the 38 pages there were quite a few completely crossed out in black, written according to the language used, is the mechanism used by the Department of Justice, with the approval of the judge, to provide protection "to a wide range of civilian witnesses," the text indicates. readable.
The blackout of much of the report is an effort to prevent "intimidation, harassment, and retaliation" against those contributors. According to the Department's lawyers, these witnesses could even face threats to their physical safety if their identities were known. They also added that the judge handling the matter, Bruce E. Reinhart, acknowledged that these threats "are not hypothetical in this case."
In The Washington Post, Barbara McQuade, a former federal prosecutor, said such language "suggests that people inside the Trump administration or Ma-a-Lago are providing information to the FBI."
What is still an unknown is the reason why Trump took all this material to his mansion and club in Palm Beach (Florida), where he had it stored without guarantees and in an easily accessible situation.
His successor, Joe Biden, declined to comment after the affidavit was released. "I don't know the details, let the Justice Department do its job." But he couldn't help but mock Trump for saying that he had declassified all the material. "I've declassified everything in the world, I'm the president...come on, man."
