DOJ asks to unseal Mar-a-Lago warrant; FBI attacker killed

Attorney General Merrick Garland said Thursday that the Department of Justice filed a motion that day to unseal the search warrant and receipt for the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. Typically, documents are not unsealed in a federal investigation until after there’s been an indictment. Garland also said that he personally approved the FBI’s search. He did not provide more details of the search but said it was court-approved with probable cause.

What’s this about an attack on the FBI? An armed man wearing body armor tried to breach a screening area at the FBI field office in Cincinnati, Ohio. He fled to his car after agents responded. Police later exchanged gunfire with the suspect after he exited the highway,  and he was killed after an hourlong standoff.  Threats against FBI agents and offices have increased since the Mar-a-Lago search. In posts on Truth Social, the social media site Trump founded, a user thought to be the shooting suspect posted about his plans to attack the FBI and encouraged others to prepare for a revolutionary-type war, CNN reported.

Dig deeper: Read Lynn Vincent’s report in WORLD Magazine on the Mar-a-Lago raid and how it might mark the entry into a new era of American politics.