Smith’s most recent Jan. 6-related indictment, there was actually a shocking development in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.
Three days ago, Mr.
Much attention has focused on a photograph attached to the DOJ’s filing. The photograph shows a number of documents marked "Top Secret" laid out on a carpet at Mar-a-Lago.
In August, Judge Arthur Engoron ruled that the former president fraudulently inflated the value of his properties, including Mar-a-Lago, which the former president has vigorously denied in court this week.
Judge Engoron ruled that President Trump over-valued Mar-a-Lago by a significant margin.
“Appraisal values and market values are just not the same thing.
District Judge for the Southern District of Florida Aileen Cannon has set the trials for the Mar-a-Lago documents case to start as early as May 20 next year. A pretrial hearing will be held on May 14.
“They didn't need to 'seize' anything,” the former president said in a statement on Friday afternoon. “They could have had [the documents] at anytime they wanted without playing politics and breaking into Mar-a-Lago.”
Likewise, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his team were well-advised to make their pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago. Trump and those around him were unimpressed with some of the critical remarks the Trudeau team had made about him during his first term.
President Donald Trump and CIA Director John Ratcliffe (L) monitor U.S. military operations in Venezuela, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Jan. 3, 2026.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump to discuss the issue and held an emergency First Ministers’ meeting to craft a unified Canadian response.
In naming him his DOI nominee during a Nov. 14 America First Policy Institute gala at Mar-a-Lago, Trump said Burgum is “going to be fantastic” in spearheading his administration’s drive “to do things with energy and land … that [are] incredible.”
She also travelled to Mar-a-Lago ahead of Trump's inauguration to share the same message with the incoming president, but after returning said Canadians should prepare for tariffs.
Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart approved the warrant based on the affidavit, a sworn statement. The warrant was executed at Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8. The affidavit was made public with redactions on orders from Reinhart.
A total of 19 businesses were valued at over $50 million, the disclosure shows, including Fifty-Seventh Street Associates, Jupiter Golf Club, and Mar-A-Lago Club.
A widely reported figure concerning the case has been the attorney general's $18 million valuation of Mar-a-Lago, in which she relied on county assessor numbers, which real estate professionals say have nothing to do with valuation.
Mr.
Moreover, the name aligns with Trump’s flair for grandiose, gilded imagery—think gold-plated everything at Trump Tower and Mar-a-Lago or the $100,000 watches he marketed in 2024.
Former President Donald Trump told CNN's Kaitlan Collins that she is a "nasty person" during a heated back-and-forth about the classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago estate, on Wednesday night at a CNN town hall.
Former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., on March 30, 2023. (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)
A Trump spokesperson dismissed the report as "illegal leaks" and denied any wrongdoing, reported Reuters.
Musk appeared alongside the president-elect at several rallies in the final days of the presidential election, hosted a tour across the key battleground state of Pennsylvania, and was at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on election night.
She pressed the former president, who is campaigning to run for reelection in 2024, on why he didn't hand over all the subpoenaed documents before the Mar-a-Lago raid, and pointed to the released audio of a phone call where he mentions a "big pile of
Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart signed an order prohibiting former President Donald Trump from talking about evidence in the Mar-a-Lago investigation.
Search and rescue crew, including the U.S.
In May, she gave an interview to Fox News after hosting a private luncheon at Mar-a-Lago.
“He has my support, and we look forward to restoring hope for the future and leading America with love and strength,” she said.
