Newly unsealed portions of the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago suggests the Department of Justice gave Donald Trump and his personal valet Walt Nauta enough rope to hang themselves, a new report claims.
The previously unseen portions of the warrant suggest prosecutors were prepared to allow the ex-president and his legal team to incriminate themselves and had "locked Trump and Nauta into a box" before the FBI searched his private residence for classified documents, legal analyst Andrew Lieb told Newsweek.
"We like to think from the movies that the execution of the search warrant is where the evidence is found, but in this case, DOJ knew that Trump and Nauta were previously moving boxes when they executed the warrant and DOJ let Trump's team tell them that they had undertaken a 'diligent search,' knowing it was a coverup," Lieb told the publication.
The newly unsealed sections don't offer much new evidence against the former president, who has been indicted on 37 counts in the case, but offers some clues that federal prosecutors hoped Trump would speak publicly about the investigation.
"It's like the DOJ knows how to trigger Trump into acting out and their strategy is to trigger him every time that they have evidence," Lieb said. "Prosecutors know that Trump punches back, as he is known for, and will always compound his legal nightmare. This guy just needs to stop reacting because every reaction is making his conviction a surer thing."
