The Justice Division on Friday revealed a closely redacted copy of the affidavit used to acquire a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s house Mar-a-Lago.
The FBI had possible trigger to consider that data containing categorized nationwide protection info can be discovered on the Palm Seaside, Florida, residence, in keeping with an agent who wrote the 32-page affidavit.
“There may be additionally possible trigger to consider that proof of obstruction shall be discovered” at Trump’s house, learn an unredacted portion of the affidavit.
A federal decide had ordered the important thing doc’s launch over the objections of the DOJ, which argued it comprises extremely delicate info concerning the ongoing legal investigation into Trump. U.S. Justice of the Peace Decide Bruce Reinhart accepted the DOJ’s proposed redactions to the affidavit sooner or later earlier than it was made public.
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Click on right here or scroll right down to learn the closely redacted affidavit.
“The federal government is conducting a legal investigation in regards to the improper removing and storage of categorized info in unauthorized areas, in addition to the illegal concealment and removing of presidency data,” the FBI agent, whose identify was blacked out, wrote within the affidavit’s first line.
The agent then wrote that the probe started due to a referral from the Nationwide Archives and Data Administration in February, after NARA acquired 15 bins of data from Trump’s residence in Florida. By legislation, presidential data have to be turned over to the Nationwide Archives when a president exits workplace.
The FBI discovered that in these bins had been paperwork that bore classification markings, and included data referring to nationwide protection info, which had been saved at Mar-a-Lago in an unsecured location.
The 15 bins included 184 particular paperwork marked categorized, 67 of which had been marked “confidential,” 92 marked “secret,” and 25 paperwork marked “prime secret,” in keeping with the affidavit.
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“Based mostly upon this investigation, I don’t consider that any areas inside the PREMISES have been approved for the storage of categorized info no less than for the reason that finish of FPOTUS ‘s Presidential Administration on January 20, 2021,” the agent wrote within the affidavit.
Of the 32 pages of the affidavit, 21 pages are virtually completely or considerably blacked out.
The search warrant itself was revealed voluntarily by the DOJ lower than every week after the Aug. 8 raid. The warrant indicated that FBI brokers had been on the lookout for supplies exhibiting violations of legal guidelines towards obstruction of justice and the removing of official data, in addition to the U.S. Espionage Act.
The FBI took no less than 20 bins of things within the August raid, together with quite a few units of extremely categorized paperwork, in keeping with a property receipt that was additionally made public by the DOJ.
In a social media put up after the redacted affidavit was launched, Trump accused the FBI and DOJ of “public relations subterfuge” by the truth that the phrase “Nuclear” didn’t seem within the doc — although he additionally famous that it was “closely redacted!!!” The affidavit didn’t element the precise content material of paperwork it anticipated to seek out.
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Trump additionally lashed out at Reinhart, arguing that he ought to have recused himself from this matter as a result of he had beforehand recused himself from one other case involving Trump. The rationale for that recusal was not clear, information retailers reported, however Trump claimed it was “primarily based on his animosity and hatred of your favourite President, me.”
The federal government argued final week towards releasing the affidavit, even in a redacted kind.
“The redactions essential to mitigate harms to the integrity of the investigation can be so in depth as to render the remaining unsealed textual content devoid of significant content material,” learn a court docket submitting from Jay Bratt, head of the Counterintelligence and Export Management Part of the DOJ’s Nationwide Safety Division.
Bratt additionally argued that the affidavit “would function a roadmap to the federal government’s ongoing investigation” if disclosed.
Reinhart disagreed, and ordered the federal government to suggest redactions to U.S. District Courtroom in West Palm Seaside, Florida, by Thursday. The decide accepted the DOJ’s redactions later that day.
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The federal government mentioned final week that the Mar-a-Lago raid is a part of a probe that “implicates nationwide safety” and remains to be in its “early phases.”
Trump, who first revealed the FBI’s search of his Florida residence, has solid himself because the sufferer of a political assault by the Biden administration that was carried out towards the presumptive Republican frontrunner within the 2024 presidential race.
The previous president on Monday sued the federal government, asking a federal decide to dam the DOJ from poring over the paperwork seized from Mar-a-Lago till a court-appointed third celebration critiques them.
“The political Hacks and Thugs had no proper below the Presidential Data Act to storm Mar-a-Lago and steal every thing in sight, together with Passports and privileged paperwork,” Trump mentioned in a social media put up earlier Friday morning.
Learn the redacted affidavit:
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Your investigation of these allegations is consistent with the IG’s mission to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse in federal agencies, and can help determine if politically connected crypto interests are undermining our national security. As Congress considers legislation on the market structure for digital assets, we must ensure that cryptocurrencies like USD1 are not providing the President and senior officials with the ability to line their pockets at the expense of the public interest.
The following facts have been reported in multiple outlets regarding Mr. Witkoff:
• Mr. Witkoff’s son Zach Witkoff is the CEO of World Liberty Financial (WLF), which the President’s family owns a majority stake in.³
• Beginning in January, one of Sheikh Tahnoon’s employees, Fiacc Larkin, joined WLF as the “chief strategic advisor” while continuing to work at G42, an AI investment firm owned by Sheikh Tahnoon that, according to the U.S. intelligence community, works closely with Chinese military companies.4
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On May 1, 2025, Zach Witkoff announced that MGX, a state-owned investment firm controlled by Sheikh Tahnoon, had agreed to use a WLF-issued stablecoin, USD1, to make a $2 billion investment in Binance. As a result of this deal, WLF stands to reap hundreds of millions of dollars in transaction fees from MGX, and more from the returns on any investments it makes with the $2 billion deposit.³
As of August, Mr. Witkoff maintained a financial interest in WLF and thus stands to personally benefit from his son’s business dealings with the UAE.6 Nevertheless, he did not recuse himself from deliberations regarding the UAE, which may violate federal ethics law.
The following facts have been reported about Mr. Sacks:
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He is a special government employee who continues to serve as a “general partner” at his venture capital fund, Craft Ventures.
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The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, an Emirati sovereign wealth fund controlled by Sheikh Tahnoon, was an early investor in Craft Ventures and continues to hold an investment in the fund.
In addition, Craft Ventures is invested in BitGo, which has partnered with WLF to provide the technical infrastructure for USD1. If BitGo’s valuation grows, based on the UAE’s investment into USD1, Mr. Sacks and his firm stand to benefit.
3 Yahoo Finance, “Trump family reportedly has a 60% stake in the World Liberty Financial,” Anand Sinha, March 31, 2025,
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-family-reportedly-60-stake-172742661.html.
4 New York Times, “Inside U.S. Efforts to Untangle an A.I. Giant’s Ties to China,” Mark Mazzetti and Edward
Wong, Nov. 27, 2023, www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/us/politics/ai-us-uae-china-security-g42.html.
5 New York Times, “At a Dubai Conference, Trump’s Conflicts Take Center Stage,” David Yaffe-Bellany, May 1, 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/politics/trump-cryptocurrency-usd1-dubai-conference-
announcement.html.
6U.S Office of Government Ethics, Form 278e for Steven C. Witkoff, August 13, 2025, p. 23, https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/090d0de07e1d2fdf/bbf02867-full.pdf.
18 U.S.C. § 208.
8 White House, “Limited Waiver Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 208(b)(1) Regarding A.I. Assets,” June 2025,
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/David-Sacks.pdf.
Nigel Farage has refused to criticise Donald Trump’s claims that paracetamol, sold in the US as Tylenol, could cause autism, insisting “science is never settled” and he would never “side with” medical experts.
The Reform UK leader said he had “no idea” if the US president was right to tell pregnant women to avoid taking acetaminophen, also known as Tylenol and paracetamol, and suggesting that those who could not “tough it out” should limit their intake.
Scientists and global health agencies including the World Health Organization have strongly dismissed Trump’s false claims, calling them misguided and saying the evidence linking paracetamol use in pregnancy and autism was “inconsistent”.
The UK’s health secretary, Wes Streeting, told the British public they should not “pay any attention whatsoever to what Donald Trump says about medicine”, adding: “I trust doctors over President Trump frankly, on this.”
But in a wide-ranging interview with LBC’s Nick Ferrari, Farage was asked directly if Trump was right to share those unproven claims. He said: “I have no idea, I’ve no idea. You know we were told thalidomide was a very safe drug and it wasn’t. Who knows Nick, I don’t know.
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“He [Trump] has a particular thing about autism. I think because there’s been some in his family, he feels it very personally. I’ve no idea.”
When Farage was asked if he would side with medical experts who say it is dangerous to make the link, he added: “I wouldn’t. I wouldn’t. When it comes to science, I don’t side with anybody, right? You know? I don’t side with anybody, because science is never settled. We should remember that.”
Yet when challenged over whether it was irresponsible for Trump to make such an unproven claim, Farage said: “That’s an opinion he’s [Trump’s] got. It’s not one that I necessarily share.”
Farage’s refusal to condemn Trump’s claims comes weeks after a controversial doctor, Aseem Malhotra, was given top billing at Reform UK’s party conference and used his main-stage speech to claim the Covid vaccine caused cancer in the royal family. Malhotra is an adviser to Trump’s health secretary, Robert F Kennedy.
In the same interview, Farage said Trump was “right to say” that sharia law “is an issue in London”.
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“Never take what he [Trump] says literally, ever on anything. But always take everything he says seriously,” Farage said, adding: Trump “has a point.”
“So is he right to say that sharia is an issue in London? Yes. Is it an overwhelming issue at this stage? No. Has the mayor of London directly linked himself to it? No.”
Labour MPs have urged Keir Starmer to reprimand Trump’s administration after the US president falsely claimed in a speech to the United Nations: “I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed, it’s been so changed.
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“Now they want to go to sharia law. But you are in a different country, you can’t do that.”
Trump has been publicly attacking the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, since 2015 when the Labour politician criticised Trump, the then presidential candidate, for suggesting that Muslims should be banned from travelling to the US.
A spokesperson for Khan said: “We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response. London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”
During the LBC phone-in, Farage also said Reform’s plan to ban anyone who was not a UK citizen from claiming benefits would not apply to Ukrainians and Hongkongers.
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“No, because they come for different reasons,” Farage said, adding those who had lived in the UK on indefinite leave to remain and had not worked or paid into the system would be told their benefits would be cut.
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
Alphabet’s market capitalisation surged above $3tn for the first time on Monday on the back of a sharp rally for the search giant’s shares over the past few weeks.
Shares in Google’s parent company have climbed more than 30 per cent to a record high of $252 since the group posted double-digit growth in revenue and profit in quarterly results out in late July.
The rally means Alphabet joins Nvidia, Microsoft and Apple as the only US companies valued above $3tn. Chipmaker Nvidia in July became the first company to hit a $4tn market value.
