We Probably Already Know What’s in the Mar-a-Lago Search Affidavit

This particular battle in the war between Trump’s lawyers and the government is less consequential than it might seem.

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Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., in 2017.

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Today’s perhaps-not-so-big development in the Mar-a-Lago search saga has already happened. As directed, the Justice Department has delivered to Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, under seal, a version of the search-warrant affidavit that could be made public without unduly harming the government’s interest in investigative secrecy. As I’ve noted in a post on the Corner, the government predictably proposed major redactions, and some highly uninformative version of the affidavit — revealing nothing that the public is actually curious about — may be released on Friday.

For now, I want to make two points, both following on columns from the last few days:

Andrew C. McCarthy

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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