Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced Thursday that the Justice Department was seeking to unseal several documents surrounding Monday’s search of Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s residence in Florida.
Garland, in his first public comments in the four days of political turbulence since federal agents searched Trump’s residence, said he approved the search personally and that the Justice Department “does not take such a decision lightly.”
The attorney general noted that the search occurred only after a federal judge signed off on a probable cause justification, and he said the DOJ would seek to make public the warrant and receipt for the property the FBI seized.
