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Mar-a-Lago secrecy starts slipping, and Trump’s side looks even worse for it
A federal judge signaled that at least part of the affidavit behind the Mar-a-Lago search could be unsealed, escalating the pressure on Trump just as his team was trying to frame the search as a political hit job. The move mattered because it suggested the government’s secrecy claims were not going to hold forever, and that a paper trail would soon start replacing the cable-news fog. Trump’s public response remained pure combustion, but the legal process was already moving in the opposite direction.