I can surmise this....
Their snitch either lied to them or was coached(entrapment) into saying what they said. “And then you walked into the office and saw ???? in the safe, right?”
They used that info to write the affidavit and get the warrant signed.
The whole thing about the judge is just another insane aspect of this whole train wreck.
But, they wanted the proverbial ‘smoking gun’, I’m betting. “He took the nuclear codes, see. He was going to sell them to Putin, see. We got him, see.” Something like that. Something so over the top that they think he would just roll over and do the dying cockroach.
The Jan6 evidence, every bit of it can be challenged and cross examined. During Discovery, his team could demand all the video, etc. And, by the real law, not DC law, they’d have to give to him.
This is the same group, led by Schiff, Swalwell and Raskin that had all the evidence during the Russia hoax, just wait and see.
If there WERE any credible evidence (which of course there isn’t) they would’ve nailed him by now.