Earlier today, the Justice Department made a court filing opposing the unsealing of an affidavit used to obtain a search warrant served last week on former president Donald Trump’s Palm Beach Mar-a-Lago golf resort.
According to Reuters:
The U.S. Justice Department on Monday said it opposes unsealing the affidavit that prosecutors used to obtain a federal judge’s approval to search former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, where they seized classified documents.
“If disclosed, the affidavit would serve as a roadmap to the government’s ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course, in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps,” prosecutors wrote in their filing.
That filing from the DOJ wasn’t the least bit unexpected, as they’re still trying to determine what crimes Trump may have committed by keeping the documents rather than turning them over to the National Archives.
However, there was another filing on Monday that is drawing considerable interest and discussion because it’s sealed and yet also attached to the Mar-a-Lago search warrant, as Sarah Lynch of Reuters noted on Twitter:
Here’s the sealed entries Lynch is referring to:
Here’s where things get really interesting.
There are only three things that could be in those sealed entries, based on the rules regarding sealed documents in federal courts:
- A motion to track Trump’s electronic devices
- A search and seizure motion
- An indictment (or indictments)
We have no way of determining what exactly is under seal, but none of those three are the least bit encouraging for Trump. Either his phones are being tracked, the feds are planning another search and seizure, or there are sealed indictments that are yet to be disclosed.
Something very big is about to be revealed by the Justice Department. And whatever it is, it’s not good news for the failed, one-term ex-president.