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Mar-a-Lago warrant unsealed. What we know and what’s next.

We know that Monday’s FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s winter home Mar-a-Lago was unprecedented. We know that it was approved by Attorney General Merrick Garland, and followed a long discussion between Mr. Trump and the U.S. government about retrieval of material he took from the White House prior to President Joe Biden’s swearing-in.

With the unsealing of the warrant Friday afternoon, we now have some information about what agents took when they drove out of Mar-a-Lago’s gate: around 20 boxes of items, including 11 sets of classified documents, some so secret they are meant to be viewed only in secure government facilities.

But some important questions regarding the affair remain unanswered, including where it is headed. Why has the Department of Justice put so much effort into

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