According to Lindsey Halligan, a Trump attorney located in Florida, the former president’s legal team is debating whether to make the search warrant and inventory of the items taken at Mar-a-Lago public before a federal court weighs on the subject.
Thursday morning, Attorney General Merrick Garland said that, “without protest from the previous president,” the Justice Department has submitted an application to unseal the warrant and associated papers. Trump has until Friday at 3 p.m. to reply.
According to Halligan, his legal team is debating whether to make footage and pictures of the search public.
According to two people familiar with Trump’s legal approach, the FBI agents requested that Mar-a-private Lago’s security cameras be turned off before executing the search warrant. Trump’s administration disobeyed.
Because the private club, not the government, owns and operates the cameras, the U.S. Secret Service, which has a constant presence at the former president’s residence, was not a party to the argument.
It’s unclear what any footage that Mar-a-cameras Lago’s may have recorded would depict.
Halligan claims that while security cameras were not present across the search area, there were cameras in Trump’s office.
She said that there are pictures of FBI agents on the property.
According to the two individuals, the former president’s legal team possesses a copy of the search order and what it described as a “vague” explanation of what was seized.
The sources characterised the search warrant to CBS News as a “bare bones” document that gives little information about why it was authorised or what the FBI wanted.
Numerous things found during the search were referred to in general as “boxes” or “documents,” such as “Box 1 – paperwork.”
The administration will be questioned by the president’s legal team for a thorough accounting of what was taken as well as the justifications offered to the federal judge for the warrant.
Trump’s lawyers do not yet have any legal action planned to force the release of these materials.
As is customary, the government failed to provide Trump’s attorneys access to the affidavit that served as the basis for the search request.
Former President Trump said in a late-night social media post that he would not object to the warrant’s publication and that he is “ENCOURAGING the release” of records pertaining to what he termed “the unAmerican, unlawful, and unnecessary raid and break-in of my house in Palm Beach.”