Newly unredacted passage in the Mar-a-Lago search warrant blows a hole in a key Trump defense: legal expert

According to former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, a deep dive into the newly unredacted portions of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant that allowed the FBI to retrieve stolen government documents from Donald Trump's Florida resort reveals an passage that would pave the way for one of his key defenses to be shot down by prosecutors when it comes time to go to court.

On her Substack "Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance," she wrote that a passage that was previously blacked out made a key assertion about Trump's knowledge about the documents he was hoarding.

As she explained, at the bottom of paragraph 58 she uncovered some "interesting information."

According to the warrant, "Multiple documents also contained what appears to be FPOTUS’s handwritten notes.”

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"This means Trump won’t be able to claim he never saw the documents—at best he could maintain the notes were written while he was in office," she explained. "But if he resorts to that argument, he still has to explain how the documents ended up at Mar-a-Lago after they were in his hands."

She added the caveat, "All in all, it’s not a lot of new information, but we’re seeing the depth in the government’s case and learning more about its strength. Perhaps most importantly, the release of these interesting pieces of information underscores just how much more there is that we don’t know."

"With the former president’s team beginning to get access to discovery, he’s in the process of learning just how strong it is. That may explain why we see him acting out even more than usual on social media," she added.

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