The United States Department of Justice, led by the attorney general, rejects the publication of the statement or affidavit with which he justified before the judge the need to register Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump's mansion in Palm Beach (Florida). ).
Before the request of several American media to the judge to make this report public, the prosecution has shown its refusal.
Donald Trump has not yet ruled on the matter, but numerous Republicans have criticized that it is not known and use it as an argument to insinuate that there are unspeakable reasons to hide it.
Compelling reasons remain, including protecting the integrity of an ongoing law enforcement investigation involving national security, that support keeping the affidavit secret, the Justice Department argues.
Both the prosecution and Trump agreed to publish the search warrant with its annexes and the inventory of assets seized by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
This allowed us to know that Trump is being investigated for at least three possible crimes punishable by fines and/or long prison sentences and also that numerous documents classified as “top secret” were found in the registry.
What was not published was the statement or affidavit in which the prosecution argues that there was sufficient evidence of a crime to proceed to search the house of a former president, something unprecedented in the history of the United States.
In the document filed with the Florida judge handling the case, the Justice Department notes that "the fact that this investigation involves highly classified materials further underscores the need to protect the integrity of the investigation and exacerbates the potential harm if Information is disclosed to the public prematurely or inappropriately.
And it adds that “disclosure of the Government affidavit at this stage could also chill future cooperation from witnesses whose assistance may be requested as this investigation progresses, as well as in other high-profile investigations.”
The prosecution assures that it has carefully studied whether the affidavit could be published with any part crossed out for reasons of confidentiality, but assures that "the omissions necessary to mitigate the damage to the integrity of the investigation would be so extensive that they would make the remaining text unremarkable." significant content.
Even so, it requests that in the event that the judge allows the partial publication of the report, it allows him to suggest which fragments to protect.
The Department of Justice does approve of the dissemination, and in fact requests that they be published, other documents related to the request for registration, the request for secrecy of the investigation and the resolution of the judge that decrees it.
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