
A Republican candidate for Congress has backtracked on his comment that US attorney general Merrick Garland “should be executed” for authorising the raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-lago residence.
Millionaire real-estate developer Carl Paladino, who is seeking office from Western New York, made the comment during an interview with Breitbart News on 13 August, but has now clarified that he was “just being facetious”.