WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday that he "personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant" for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort and that the Justice Department filed a motion earlier in the day to make the warrant public.

Speaking about his decision during a press conference on Thursday, Garland said the department "does not take such actions lightly" and first pursues "less intrusive" means to retrieve material. Garland noted that it was Trump's "right" to reveal Monday's FBI search of his property and that all Americans are entitled to a presumption of innocence.

Garland also said that Justice Department has also asked to make public the property receipt detailing what agents found inside the Trump property.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-received-subpoena-fbi-search-mar-lago-home-rcna42693

That's going to be good!

So will Trump file motion to block this unsealing, as is his option I think?

 

Given all his, and other Republican's, baying about "transparency" it might be a bad look if he objects.

 

Then again, the contents may be less than flattering.

 

I guess we'll know by 3:00 PM Friday (U.S. time).

 

Justice Department moves to unseal search warrant used to seize documents from Trump's home

 

"The press and the public enjoy a qualified right of access to criminal and judicial proceedings and the judicial records filed therein," wrote U.S. Attorney Juan Antonio Gonzalez and Jay Bratt, head of the Justice Department's counterintelligence and export control section. They added that the "public's clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred under these circumstances weighs heavily in favor of unsealing."

 

The judge quickly ordered federal prosecutors to confer with Trump's attorneys and determine whether they oppose the motion to unseal the warrant and related documents, setting a deadline of 3 p.m. Friday for the Trump team's response.

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/merrick-garland-trump-search-warrant-attorney-general-justice-department/

 

 

 

 Trump can release the search warrant info if he really is sincere about transparency but he won't.... because it will hurt the current fundraising if "the base" knew the facts about what the FBI was looking for and found. 

 

Garland is no fool and is asking a court to release the info that the DOJ typically keeps quiet.

Will Trump ask the court to block the release now? Of course.

4 hours ago, candide said:

That's going to be good!

It could be nuclear.........????

 

FBI searched Trump’s home looking for nuclear documents and other items, according to people familiar with the investigation, experts in classified information said the unusual search underscores deep concern among government officials about the types of information they thought could be located at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and potentially in danger of falling into the wrong hands.

 

People familiar with the investigation did not offer additional details about what type of information the agents were seeking, including whether it involved weapons belonging to the United States or some other nation.

 

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1557880239287455744

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/11/garland-trump-mar-a-lago/

 

26 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

It could be nuclear.........????

 

FBI searched Trump’s home looking for nuclear documents and other items, according to people familiar with the investigation, experts in classified information said the unusual search underscores deep concern among government officials about the types of information they thought could be located at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and potentially in danger of falling into the wrong hands.

 

People familiar with the investigation did not offer additional details about what type of information the agents were seeking, including whether it involved weapons belonging to the United States or some other nation.

 

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1557880239287455744

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/11/garland-trump-mar-a-lago/

 

If Trump took nuke secrets he could very well be indicted before his lawyers can respond to the judge's request by 3pm Friday. He will die in prison for that offence 

After my remarks about Garland sleeping at his desk for the past year I am hereby humbled and take it all back.

Called his bluff he did.  "This is what you want, this is what you get!"

 

Man, I just wish that orange guy would go into exile already.

 

 

3 minutes ago, pegman said:

If Trump took nuke secrets he could very well be indicted before his lawyers can respond to the judge's request by 3pm Friday. He will die in prison for that offence 

Could be something to do with this?

 

Flynn-backed plan to transfer nuclear tech to Saudis may have broken laws, say whistleblowers

Investigators fear President Trump is still considering the plan, which was pushed by Flynn and Trump friend Tom Barrack.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna973021

 

Trump Admin Weirdly Eager to Hand the Saudis Nuclear Secrets

Lawmakers want to prevent Saudi Arabia from getting a nuclear weapon. The administration isn’t worried!

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/03/trump-admin-eager-to-hand-the-saudis-nuclear-secrets

 

Jared and the Saudi Crown Prince Go Nuclear?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/opinion/sunday/saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-nuclear.html

2 minutes ago, bendejo said:

After my remarks about Garland sleeping at his desk for the past year I am hereby humbled and take it all back.

Called his bluff he did.  "This is what you want, this is what you get!"

 

Man, I just wish that orange guy would go into exile already.

 

 

If he could shake his Secret Service detail he might try to slip away

47 minutes ago, bendejo said:

After my remarks about Garland sleeping at his desk for the past year I am hereby humbled and take it all back.

Called his bluff he did.  "This is what you want, this is what you get!"

 

Man, I just wish that orange guy would go into exile already.

 

 

Garland is playing 8 dimensional chess, underwater, in the dark while Trump and his "very smart brain" is playing naked, on a slippy slide, covered in baby oil.

How does he get out of this one and could this be the start of more whistleblowing as the rats leave the ship.

2 hours ago, pegman said:

If he could shake his Secret Service detail he might try to slip away

Leaning forward in his SUV, trying to grab the steering wheel, and shouting "Take me to Moscow!!!"

trump apparently happy for unsealing to happen.

We’ll see…

 

Donald Trump does not oppose US bid to unseal Mar-a-Lago search warrant

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62512360

44 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

trump apparently happy for unsealing to happen.

We’ll see…

 

Donald Trump does not oppose US bid to unseal Mar-a-Lago search warrant

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62512360

He was possibly advised that to oppose it would be a further indicator of his guilt so he was thus forced to agree for the release of details.

17 minutes ago, Excel said:

He was possibly advised that to oppose it would be a further indicator of his guilt so he was thus forced to agree for the release of details.

There's nothing stopping him from releasing his own copy already, along with the inventory of items removed that he already has.  Maybe he's doing a bit of "Sharpie-editing" to both before doing so, and then screaming that the DOJ documents and his own don't match.

1 minute ago, ballpoint said:

There's nothing stopping him from releasing his own copy already, along with the inventory of items removed that he already has.  Maybe he's doing a bit of "Sharpie-editing" to both before doing so, and then screaming that the DOJ documents and his own don't match.

Wouldn't put that past him at all.