'This is really Merrick Garland calling Donald Trump's bluff,' Andrew Weissmann, former FBI general counsel, says. 'Now the ball is in [Trump's] court to say, 'oh wait, I want to hide this from the American public.''
At a Justice Department press conference this afternoon, Aaddressed the subject publicly for the first time, and he made some news:
Garland added that the former president’s counsel was on site during the search, and his lawyer received the court-approved materials, in keeping with standard law enforcement practices. If, on the other hand, the Republican’s lawyers agree that the warrant should be unsealed, we’re likely to see it But before wrapping up, Garland also took about a minute to defend federal law enforcement from “recent unfounded attacks on the professionalism of the FBI and Justice Department agents and prosecutors.”