{"id":1601496,"date":"2022-08-11T15:34:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T19:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1601496"},"modified":"2022-08-11T15:34:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T19:34:43","slug":"ag-merrick-garland-says-he-personally-approved-fbis-trump-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ag-merrick-garland-says-he-personally-approved-fbis-trump-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Merrick Garland Says He \u2018Personally Approved\u2019 FBI\u2019s Trump Raid"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fag-merrick-garland-says-he-personally-approved-fbis-trump-raid%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=1601496&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>Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-merrick-garland\">Merrick Garland<\/a> on Thursday provided the Department of Justice\u2019s (DOJ) first public statement about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fbi\">FBI<\/a> raid targeting former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this week, coming as both the FBI and DOJ have issued virtually no comments on the\u00a0unprecedented incident.<\/p>\n<p>Garland told reporters that his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-administration-asks-court-to-unseal-trump-search-warrant-materials_4658866.html\">agency filed a motion<\/a> Thursday to unseal the court-approved search warrant that was executed at a home \u201cbelonging to the former president,\u201d after Trump confirmed the raid, \u201cas is his right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter \u2026 the Department does not take such an action lightly,\u201d Garland said.<\/p>\n<p>He said copies of the warrant were provided to Trump\u2019s lawyers on Monday by FBI agents.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general claimed that FBI agents are \u201cpatriotic\u201d and \u201cdedicated\u201d public servants who protect Americans against violent crime and terrorism. \u201cI am honored to work alongside them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the Justice Department and FBI have remained mostly mum about the purpose and probable cause behind the raid and have repeatedly declined to publicly comment to The Epoch Times and other news outlets. Only alleged anonymous sources within the FBI and Justice Department have sporadically provided details about the incident to legacy media since Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A day before Garland\u2019s statement, FBI Director Christopher Wray declined to speak about the FBI search, saying that it is \u201cnot something I can talk about, and I\u2019d refer you to the department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House, meanwhile, said it was not aware of the FBI raid before it was announced by Trump earlier this week. On Tuesday, when asked by reporters about what Garland told him, President Joe Biden did not answer.<\/p>\n<p>The judge who reportedly signed off on the warrant in the case, Bruce Reinhart, ordered the Justice Department on Wednesday to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday provided the Department of Justice\u2019s (DOJ) first public statement about the FBI raid targeting former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this week, coming as both the FBI and DOJ have issued virtually no comments on the\u00a0unprecedented incident. Garland told reporters that his agency filed a motion Thursday to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"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-1601496","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\/1601496","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601496\/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=1601496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}