US attorney-general Merrick Garland said the justice department had moved to unseal the search warrant and the list of items retrieved by the FBI from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday, breaking days of silence on the extraordinary operation.
In a statement from the headquarters of the Department of Justice in Washington on Thursday, Garland said he had personally approved the search of the former president’s residence, which was signed off by a federal judge, though he declined to offer details on the reasons behind it.
The attorney-general also issued a firm defence of law enforcement agencies after vitriolic attacks on the FBI and the DoJ following the search, from Trump and his aides, as well as Republican lawmakers.
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