At long last, an inventory of items seized from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home has been released and the American people have an idea of what was taken.

Previously, all we had to go on was an I detailed search warrant that listed only one specific document, the grant of Clemency for Roger Stone, and a heavily redacted affidavit.

The Daily Caller reported, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ordered the release of the documents Thursday, after Trump’s team requested it and the Justice Department said it was possible to make the information public, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Some 11,179 documents and photographs seized

Cannon had previously agreed with the Trump legal time to allow a special master review of potentially confidential information.

The original search warrant listed the labels of several boxes but gave virtually no information on what was actually in these boxes.

Now we know that of the documents seized, 54 were secret, 31 were marked confidential, and 18 were marked top secret.

Now the question remains, despite the markings on these documents, had they been declassified? If so this is nothing more than a clerical issue.

Trump claims that he declassified the materials being held at his home in West Palm Beach but it’s unclear if he went through the proper channels to actually make this happen.

Presidents do have the ability to declassify information at will, but the correct processes must be conducted in order for this to be the case.

After Donald Trump requested an independent, third-party “special master” review of documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate, judge Cannon announced her intent to make this happen.

Cannon says that after reviewing the details of the case, she agrees with the Trump legal team that a third-party review was necessary. The judge filed a motion for the Department of Justice to respond by appointing a special master along with a more detailed list of items taken from the resort.

“In accordance with Rule 53, the parties are advised to include in their filings their respective and particularized positions on the duties and responsibilities of a prospective special master, along with any other considerations pertinent to the appointment of a special master in this case,” she said in a preliminary order.

Special masters are commonly used to settle disputes regarding documents that are secret.

Typically this refers to information under attorney-client privilege, not classified government information.

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