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A federal magistrate judge approved a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago on August 5, 2022. The FBI later executed that warrant on August 8, making the records investigation far more public and far more serious. The warrant approval did not itself prove wrongdoing, but it did mean investigators had shown probable cause to search the property for evidence of possible offenses.
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A federal magistrate judge approved a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago on August 5, 2022. The FBI later executed that warrant on August 8, making the records investigation far more public and far more serious. The warrant approval did not itself prove wrongdoing, but it did mean investigators had shown probable cause to search the property for evidence of possible offenses.
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A federal magistrate judge approved a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago on August 5, 2022. The FBI later executed that warrant on August 8, making the records investigation far more public and far more serious. The warrant approval did not itself prove wrongdoing, but it did mean investigators had shown probable cause to search the property for evidence of possible offenses.
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