WATCH: US Attorney General Garland delivers statement on Trump Mar-a-Lago raid
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a motion to unseal the search warrant used by the FBI to enter Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate this week, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday.
In his first public comments since Monday’s unprecedented search, Garland said the motion to unseal was filed “given the intense public interest presented by the search of a residence of a former president.”
Garland, the nation’s top law enforcement official, said he had personally approved the decision to search Trump’s home.
Trump first broke the news Monday evening that FBI agents had come to his estate in Florida and searched multiple rooms, and also opened his personal safe.
It was later revealed that FBI agents were seeking documents and other items Trump allegedly took with him from the White House to Florida at the end of his presidency, some of which were believed to be confidential material — a federal crime.
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It is not yet known if FBI agents found anything at Mar-a-Lago, or exactly what materials authorities were seeking.
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Garland has been under intense pressure from both political parties to provide more details about the evidence that led to a federal judge approving the warrant.
He did not share more on the case beyond confirming Trump’s lawyers were present during the search and were given a copy of the warrant by FBI agents.
More to come…
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