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AG Merrick Garland says he signed off on Trump search, denounces attacks on law enforcement - ABC News

AG Merrick Garland says he signed off on Trump search, denounces attacks on law enforcement - ABC News

AG Merrick Garland says he signed off on Trump search, denounces attacks on law enforcement - ABC News
Aug 11, 2022 1 min, 33 secs

The government on Thursday also filed a motion to unseal the search warrant.

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday afternoon spoke for the first time since FBI agents raided former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida.

Citing "the substantial public interest in this matter," Garland said the government had filed a motion to unseal the warrant authorizing Monday's search, which Trump has sharply criticized as a partisan attack.

Sources previously told ABC News that Monday's search was in connection to documents that Trump took with him when he departed Washington, including some records the National Archives said were marked classified.

Garland said Thursday he "personally approved" the unprecedented decision to seek a search warrant against a former president but stressed that "the department does not take such a decision lightly.".

Finally, he said, he wanted to "address recent unfounded attacks on the professionalism of the FBI and Justice Department agents and prosecutors.".

Trump said the search was "not necessary or appropriate"; he has not released any information about the court-authorized search warrant.

It is prosecutorial misconduct, the weaponization of the Justice System, and an attack by Radical Left Democrats who desperately don’t want me to run for President in 2024," Trump said in a statement on Monday night, in the first public confirmation of a search that Garland said Thursday officials had worked to keep out of view.

"The men and women of the FBI and the Justice Department are dedicated, patriotic public servants, every day," Garland said.

In its request to unseal the search warrant, filed Thursday in federal court in Florida, the Justice Department wrote that its decision was made in light of "the public’s clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred under these circumstances."

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