Attorney General Merrick Garland revealed during a brief Thursday speech that he personally approved the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, and that the DOJ has asked a federal court to unseal the document.
Garland: "I personally approved" the Mar-a-Lago raid. pic.twitter.com/qw8HJOcsGZ
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 11, 2022
"Just now, the Justice Department has filed a motion in the Southern
District of Florida to unseal a search warrant and property receipt
relating to a court approved search that the FBI conducted earlier this
week," Garland said.
well that was fast.
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) August 11, 2022
Trump allies have suggested that the warrant was politically motivated, while Trump himself said on Truth Social on Wednesday that the FBI may have planted evidence.
It's no accident or coincidence that the grand juries involved in Jan. 6 and the National Archives are under the control of the same United States attorney in Washington, D.C., Matthew Graves, who is an Obama-Biden leftist, as is his wife.
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) August 11, 2022
The search is connected to an investigation on whether Trump unlawfully
retained presidential records - including classified materials,
following his departure from office in January 2021.
garland will not take any questions but you can learn more when his staff leaks to the new york times and cnn
— Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) August 11, 2022
Kind of crazy to think that Merrick Garland may have posed less of a threat to the republic as a Supreme Court justice than as an incompetent, vindictive, corrupt AG.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 11, 2022
THREAD: A federal law enforcement source tells me probable cause for search warrant ‘very likely’ came from a secret service member.
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) August 11, 2022
This evidence is typically obtained in one of two ways:
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) August 11, 2022
1) a Title 3 wiretap intercepting conversations
and/or
2) a well-placed source giving real-time information to law enforcement.
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US Attorney General Merrick Garland will make a statement to the media at 2:30 pm ET on Thursday, following the FBI's Monday raid on Mar-a-Lago.
Garland has found himself in the crosshairs of conservatives, who claim that the establishment has once again 'weaponized' the DOJ against Donald Trump.
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Sen. Rand Paul and other conservatives have called for an investigation.
"And if it warrants it, there’s going to have to be a look at whether or not the attorney general has misused his office for political purposes. Have they gone after a political opponent? I mean, this is beyond the pale," he told Fox News on Wednesady. "No one would have ever imagined before that we would be using or one political party would be using the FBI to attack their political opponents."
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