The Daily Fuckup

June 2, 2022 was not the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. According to a later Justice Department indictment, it was the day Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran returned to the club to review boxes in storage in response to a May 11, 2022 grand jury subpoena for documents with classification markings. The filing says Corcoran found 38 such documents during that review. It also treats the June 3 handoff of those documents as a separate event.

The indictment lays out a timeline that starts before Corcoran arrived. It says Donald Trump had been told on May 23 that Corcoran would come back on June 2 to search the boxes in storage, and that Trump wanted to be at Mar-a-Lago that day. The filing then alleges that, between May 23 and June 2, Walt Nauta moved about 64 boxes out of the storage room and returned only about 30, and that neither Trump nor Nauta told Corcoran about that box movement.

On June 2, the indictment says Trump spoke with Nauta that morning and, later that day, Corcoran came to the club to review the boxes. After that review, the Justice Department says Corcoran placed the 38 classified-marked documents into a Redweld folder and sealed it with tape. The next day, June 3, the filing says another Trump lawyer signed a certification and then met with Justice Department and FBI personnel, turning over the Redweld folder.

The point of the June 2 review is not that it was a search by the FBI. It was a lawyer-side inventory under subpoena, and the government’s later case turns on what happened before and after that review. The indictment says the box shifts were not disclosed to Corcoran, which meant the review did not cover everything it might have covered if the storage room had been left alone.

The FBI search of Mar-a-Lago came later, on Aug. 8, 2022, under a court-authorized warrant. By then, the chronology had become part of a broader obstruction and retention case: what records were still at the club, who moved them, what the lawyers were told, and when the government finally got access to them. June 2 mattered because it fixed one of the key checkpoints in that chain, and the later filing used it to show how the documents were handled before the search ever happened.