A federal judge has unsealed the warrant that authorised the FBI to search ex-US President Donald Trump's home in Florida
FBI agents who searched Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach on Monday found documents marked top secret
The warrant indicates investigators had probable cause to believe Trump violated the Espionage Act
FBI agents took a cache of files, including information about the "President of France"
In a statement, Trump says the documents seized by agents at his club were "all declassified"
Attorney General Merrick Garland had applied for the warrant's release, citing "substantial public interest in this matter"
Edited by Jude Sheerin
The search warrant was approved by a federal judge on 5 August, three days before Monday's raid.
The court document gave law enforcement until 19 August to execute the search.
The warrant allowing FBI agents to search Mar-a-Lago has just been unsealed by a federal judge in Florida.
It comes after the justice department made the unusual move of asking to make public a warrant involved in an active criminal investigation.
Representatives for Trump have been making the legally debatable case since Monday that he had the authority as president to de-classify all of the recovered documents before he left office, and did so.
“Number one, it was all declassified. Number two, they didn’t need to 'seize’ anything,” he said on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Friday.
“They could have had it anytime they wanted without playing politics and breaking into Mar-a-Lago."
Legal experts have told US media it is unclear whether this argument would hold up in court.
Although the president does have the legal authority to declassify information, the procedure is unclear.
Supporters of Trump say he could simply say out loud that documents are declassified. Others argue that a more formal process is necessary.
Here's how this investigation has developed over the past few months:
We already know unofficially that the raid is connected to an investigation into whether the former president removed classified records and sensitive material from the White House.
The publication of the warrant does not include the evidence given that led to the search.
According to some reports in US media, a mole in the Trump team had helped the FBI identify the location of the allegedly mishandled documents.
According to the Washington Post, citing anonymous sources on Thursday night, documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents were seeking.
The sources did not tell the newspaper whether the information involved US weapons or some other nation's.
OK, here's the state of play.
A federal judge is deciding as soon as Friday whether to unseal the warrant that allowed the FBI to search former US President Donald Trump's estate on Monday.
Reports are emerging in the last few minutes that the FBI left Mar-a-Lago with 11 boxes of sensitive documents, some marked classified and top secret.
One box that was seized had a label on it intriguingly saying it was about the "President of France".
Another box contained the letter that Trump wrote granting legal clemency to his longtime friend and ally Roger Stone.
The confirmation of what was taken was revealed in a receipt that the FBI left after serving their warrant, giving a breakdown of what they had seized.