‘Witch hunt’: AG Merrick Garland says he approved FBI raid on Trump’s residence

‘Merrick Garland personally approved a search warrant to take down Joe Biden’s top political opponent,’ said Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn. ‘This is a politically-motivated witch hunt.'

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Biden administration attorney general Merrick Garland said Thursday that he personally gave the go-ahead for the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s residence earlier this week. The raid has stunned the nation and drawn widespread condemnation as the corrupt action of a “banana republic.”

During an August 11 press conference, Garland said he “personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant” of Trump’s residence at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, adding the “department does not take such a decision lightly.”

“The search warrant was authorized by a federal court upon the required finding of probable cause,” he explained, stopping short at explaining how probable cause was determined.

Garland, who now heads up the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) under the Biden administration after being unsuccessfully nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court by former president Barack Obama, also announced that the DOJ had “filed a motion in the Southern District of Florida to unseal a search...Read more and see tweets and video here.