The Department of Justice (DOJ) sought Mar-a-Lago security footage from early January 2022 onward, according to a court filing on Tuesday that was unsealed by a federal judge.
The new information surfaced after a federal judge allowed the DOJ to request to unseal more portions of the affidavit that was used to obtain an FBI warrant to search former President Donald Trump’s residence. The new version of the affidavit—still heavily redacted—was uploaded to the docket on Tuesday afternoon.
In the document (pdf), the DOJ in a May subpoena asked for video footage from Jan. 10, 2022, onward. It came about a week before the former president’s team handed over about 15 boxes of documents and records to the National Archives, which, in turn, referred them to the DOJ….