Mar-a-Lago Affidavit Should Deepen Trumpworld's Sense of Dread

Earlier today, the Justice Department released an extensively redacted version of the affidavit that federal authorities used to justify the warrant to search former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago compound earlier this month. While it wasn't exactly filled with the kind of bombshells liberals might have been anticipating, Trump allies hoping that more information from the DOJ might reveal the whole thing to be an overreach are likely quite disappointed.

In case there was any doubt, the release makes it clear that there is more going on here than Trump hanging onto a few inconsequential documents, but we still don't know the precise nature of the materials seized or what the former president was doing with them. The affidavit did reveal the existence of sources with knowledge of the movement and storage of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, including some highly sensitive materials regarding human sources of intelligence. Information about those sources was, of course, blacked out to protect them.