US Attorney-General breaks silence on Trump raid, wants search warrant made public | FarrahTomazin
: US Attorney-General Merrick Garland has broken his silence following the raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, asking a court to unseal the search warrant due to the “substantial public interest in this matter”.
He also pushed back against claims that the raid was a politically motivated “witch-hunt” designed to stop the former president from running for the White House again in 2024. Many took to social media encouraging “civil war”, urging people to “lock and load” and asking “when does the shooting start?”One post called for the assassination of Garland, another suggested to “kill all feds” while others encouraged users to post the address of the judge who signed off on the warrant, with one declaring: “I see a rope around his neck.”
It is still not clear whether the documents in question had anything to do with the January 6 Capitol attack or were simply classified material that Trump, under the provisions of the Presidential Records Act, was not entitled to take after leaving the White House. An example of the rise in violence emerged in Ohio on Thursday , when authorities reported that a person wearing body armour, armed with an AR-style rifle and a nail gun, tried to break into an FBI building in Cincinnati, “trading shots” with officers as he fled the scene. It is not yet known if the matter is in any way linked to this week’s events.Wall Street Journalthat the FBI’s search warrant may have been leaked by an informant inside Trump’s inner circle.