A redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit, which led to the FBI raid at former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, is now public.
The document gives some insight into the Justice Department’s investigation into whether Trump committed crimes in his handling of highly classified information. It was released Friday on the order of Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart in the Southern District of Florida.
Parts of the affidavit are redacted because Reinhart agreed with the Justice Department that a full release of the document would compromise the U.S. government’s ongoing criminal investigation and would “reveal the identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents, and uncharged parties” and “the investigation’s strategy, direction, scope, sources, and methods.”
What type of case does the affidavit lay out against Trump? Read it for yourself:
This story was originally published August 26, 2022 at 12:53 PM.
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
