Three days after FBI agents appeared on former President Donald Trump’s doorstep to execute a court-approved search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago resort, Attorney General Merrick Garland finally addressed the unprecedented incident in a brief, if underwhelming, statement Thursday afternoon.
Noting that while the Justice Department had been silent on the search, Trump himself had confirmed it, Garland cited “substantial public interest in this matter” to announce the DOJ’s request to unseal portions of the warrant. The department had filed the request in a Florida court just before Garland addressed the media.
