{"id":15444,"date":"2022-08-11T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/attorney-general-garland-to-testify-after-fbi-raid-on-trump\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T20:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T20:00:17","slug":"attorney-general-garland-to-testify-after-fbi-raid-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=15444","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Garland to testify after FBI raid on Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Read CNBC&#8217;s coverage of Garland&#8217;s comments here.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland plans to make a statement Thursday afternoon, three days after FBI agents raided former President Donald Trump&#8217;s Florida residence.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department, which Garland heads, has faced pressure since that raid to give a public explanation for the search of Trump&#8217;s home at his Mar-a-Lago club.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who is a Republican, and his allies have said the search was politically motivated and pointed the finger at the administration of President Joe Biden, a Democrat, for condemning the probe.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI seized a dozen boxes from the residence on Monday, according to Trump&#8217;s lawyer, Christina Bobb.<\/p>\n<p>He said agents left a copy of the search warrant, which indicated they are investigating possible violations of laws related to the Presidential Records Act and the handling of classified material.<\/p>\n<p>A senior White House official told NBC News on Thursday that they did not know what Garland would say.<\/p>\n<p>US Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks to the press at the Department of Justice after the three defendants were found guilty of federal hate crimes in the killing of a young black man, Ahmaud Arbrey in Washington, DC, USA , on February 22, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Kamm |  Reuters<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had no notice that he was making comments and no information about their content,&#8221; the official said.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department and Garland have a longstanding policy of not commenting on criminal investigations before charges are filed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is breaking news.  Check back for updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/08\/11\/attorney-general-merrick-garland-set-to-make-statement-days-after-fbi-raid-on-trump-home-at-mar-a-lago.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read CNBC&#8217;s coverage of Garland&#8217;s comments here. Attorney General Merrick Garland plans to make a statement Thursday afternoon, three days after FBI agents raided former President Donald Trump&#8217;s Florida residence. The Justice Department, which Garland heads, has faced pressure since that raid to give a public explanation for the search of Trump&#8217;s home at his Mar-a-Lago club. Trump, who is a Republican, and his allies have said the search was politically motivated and pointed the finger at the administration of President Joe Biden, a Democrat, for condemning the probe. The FBI seized a dozen boxes from the residence on Monday,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}