David Rohde: “For Americans who wish to look, their worst fears about Donald Trump are being confirmed. He recklessly handled some of the country’s most important secrets, including, apparently, information related to nuclear weapons. Tens of millions of Americans, undoubtedly, will continue to believe his conspiracy theories. But the steady compilation of facts by the January 6th committee, the Justice Department, and the F.B.I. is creating a post-November, 2020, record of negligence that exceeds Trump’s actions earlier in his tenure.”

“The Mar-a-Lago search warrant showed that Trump has grown more rash, thoughtless, and heedless—and more unfit than ever for the Presidency.”

The search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago this week has now been officially unsealed.

NBC News: “The property receipt of items recovered by FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort shows that agents recovered a trove of top secret and other heavily classified documents.”

As noted earlier, Donald Trump is under investigation for potential obstruction of justice and Espionage Act violations.

Donald Trump is now arguing that he used his authority to declassify the material seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago before he left office.

But the New York Times reports none of the three criminal laws cited in the search warrant “turn on whether information was deemed to be unclassified.”

More from the New York Times: “Two of the laws that a search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago this week referenced — Sections 1519 and 2071 of Title 18 of the United States Code — make the taking or concealment of government records a crime regardless of whether they had anything to do with national security.”

“For another, laws against taking or hoarding material with restricted national-security information — which generally carry heavier penalties than theft of ordinary documents — do not always line up with whether the files are technically classified.”

Breitbart and the New York Times reports that Donald Trump is under investigation for:

• 18 USC 2071 — Concealment, removal or mutilation
• 18 USC 793 — Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
• 18 USC 1519 — Destruction, alteration or falsification of records in Federal investigation

The leak of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant and property receipt was apparently received simultaneously by the Wall Street Journal, Fox News and Breitbart, CNN reports.

Breitbart published the names of the FBI agents who conducted the search, which potentially opens them up to threats and harassment.

“FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home Monday removed 11 sets of classified documents, including some marked as top secret and meant to be only available in special government facilities,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The FBI agents took around 20 boxes of items, binders of photos, a handwritten note and the executive grant of clemency for Mr. Trump’s ally Roger Stone, a list of items removed from the property shows.”

“Also included in the list was information about the ‘President of France.’”

“The list includes references to one set of documents marked as ‘Various classified/TS/SCI documents,’ an abbreviation that refers to top-secret/sensitive compartmented information. It also says agents collected four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents, and three sets of confidential documents.“

This information was apparently leaked and not authorized by the judge overseeing the search warrant.

“A Manhattan state court judge on Friday declined to throw out the criminal case against Donald Trump’s family business and its longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, clearing the way for a trial in the case scheduled for the fall,” the New York Times reports.

“The decision marked the latest legal blow to Donald Trump in a week full of them.”

Donald Trump attempts to deflect in a new statement: “President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!”