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Attorney General Garland explains Trump raid, says he personally approved search warrant based upon probable cause

By Robert Pozarycki Posted on August 11, 2022

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday that he personally approved the Justice Department’s decision to seek out and execute a search warrant on the Florida home of former President Donald Trump, based upon an ongoing investigation in which investigators had obtained probable cause necessitating the raid.

In a brief, 3 1/2-minute statement at the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, DC, Garland made his first public remarks since the Aug. 8 raid on Mar-a-Lago, which the embattled former president publicly disclosed that evening — setting off a firestorm of verbal attacks by his closest supporters upon law enforcement.

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