{"id":1597974,"date":"2022-08-10T00:33:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T04:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1597974"},"modified":"2022-08-10T00:33:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T04:33:22","slug":"mcconnell-says-country-deserves-thorough-and-immediate-explanation-about-trump-residence-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-says-country-deserves-thorough-and-immediate-explanation-about-trump-residence-search\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell Says \u2018Country Deserves Thorough and Immediate Explanation\u2019 About Trump Residence Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmcconnell-says-country-deserves-thorough-and-immediate-explanation-about-trump-residence-search%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1597974&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/3595121-mcconnell-calls-for-thorough-and-immediate-explanation-of-mar-a-lago-raid\/\">called for<\/a> a \u201cthorough and immediate explanation\u201d in the wake of the FBI\u2019s search at former President Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago residence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttorney General Garland and the Department of Justice should already have provided answers to the American people and must do so immediately,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country deserves a thorough and immediate explanation of what led to the events of Monday,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell\u2019s first comments on the FBI\u2019s action were voiced a day after the raid took place. He\u00a0refused to make remarks about the incident when asked by the press earlier in the day when he was in Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here to talk about the flood and recovery from the flood,\u201d McConnell reportedly responded.<\/p>\n<p>The minority leader was in his home state in the aftermath of the devastating flood that has taken the lives of dozens of people.<\/p>\n<p>McConnel\u2019s comment added to the list of Republican lawmakers who had been requesting Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI director Christopher Wray to provide an explanation for the search.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/09\/Mar-a-Lago-GettyImages-1242402953-1200x798.jpg\"><\/a> A member of the Secret Service in front of the home of former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Aug. 9, 2022. (Giorgio Viera\/AFP via Getty Images) Summon Hearing <\/p>\n<p>In an<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HouseGOP\/status\/1557171622309613568\"> interview<\/a> with Fox News, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) also called for oversight in the wake of the unprecedented raid on the former president.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee called on the committee chair, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) to summon Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray for a hearing late this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJerry Nadler, call up Christopher Ray, call up Merrick Garland, bring them to the front of the House Judiciary Committee so we can ask them the questions that the American people deserve answers to,\u201d he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has called for a \u201cthorough and immediate explanation\u201d in the wake of the FBI\u2019s search at former President Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago residence. \u201cAttorney General Garland and the Department of Justice should already have provided answers to the American people and must do so immediately,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cThe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}