Merrick Garland said Thursday he's asked a judge to unseal the FBI's search warrant for Mar-a-Lago, effectively calling Trump’s bluff.
Elsewhere in Garland‘s remarks, which lasted just a couple minutes, the attorney general confirmed that hethe decision to seek the search warrant. He added that the department “does not take such a decision lightly” and that “where possible, it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search, and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken.
Ason Thursday morning, Trump had received a subpoena this spring for the documents investigators believed he had kept a hold of, after the National Archives retrieved 15 boxes from Mar-a-Lago. The subpoena, thenoted, suggested “that the Justice Department tried methods short of a search warrant to account for the material before taking the politically explosive step of sending F.B.I. agents unannounced to Mar-a-Lago.
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