US Attorney General Merrick Garlandspoke for the first time about the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida, which caused great controversy in the country, at a press conference held at the Department of Justice.
“I personally endorsed the decision to issue a warrant on this matter,” Garland said, noting that the warrant was authorized by a federal court on probable cause.
“Both the warrant and copies of the FBI’s bill of materials were given the same day to the former President’s attorney, who was at the scene during the search,” Garland said.
Garland announced that they had applied to the Florida district court demanding that the Department of Justice declassify the search warrant and confiscated materials.
The Ministry of Justice has not made any statement since the day of the raid, on the grounds that the investigation continues.
FBI Raid on TRUMP’s HOUSE
Former US President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida was searched in a raid on the morning of August 8 by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents.
“My beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida, is now under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of FBI agents, this is a dark time for our nation. Never before has a US President gone through,” Trump said in a written statement. nothing like this has come.”
Later, in the news that was reflected in the US press, it was stated that the FBI search was related to an ongoing investigation into whether Trump received confidential records from his Florida residence during his term at the White House.
It was reported in the news that 12 boxes of evidence were collected from Mar-a-Lago in the search of approximately 40 FBI agents, which lasted more than 9 hours.
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