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In response to the Justice Department's request to make the search warrant that led to the raid at his Florida estate on Monday public, former President Donald Trump said Thursday night, 'Release the documents now!'
Trump made his position clear in a statement he posted on his social media app, Truth Social. In the statement, he called for the documents to be "immediately released" and criticized the "political weaponization of law enforcement." This was a few days after FBI agents searched Mar-a-Lago.
“Not only will I not oppose the release of documents related to the un-American, unwarranted, and unnecessary raid and break-in of my home in Palm Beach, Florida, Mar-a-Lago,” Trump said in one post.
“I am going a step further by ENCOURAGING the immediate release of those documents, even though they have been drawn up by radical left Democrats and possible future political opponents, who have a strong and powerful vested interest in attacking me, much as they have done for the last 6 years.”
In a follow-up post, he bragged about his poll numbers and fundraising by the Republican Party as crucial midterm elections approach in November.
“This unprecedented political weaponization of law enforcement is inappropriate and highly unethical,” the 45th president said, as he complained how the country has been brought to a “new low” related to border security, crime, the economy and other issues.
“Release the documents now!” he concluded.
The late-night rant comes at the end of a very strange day. During a press conference, Attorney General Merrick Garland said that he "personally approved" the search warrant request that led to the search being done.
Garland also said that the Justice Department had asked a federal magistrate judge to make copies of the warrant public and that the judge would do this if Trump did not object.
Bruce Reinhart, the judge who approved the first warrant on August 5, told the feds to tell Trump's lawyers about the motion and let him know by Friday at 3 p.m. if there were any problems.
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