After Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday that he was seeking to unseal the search warrant justifying Monday's search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estates, numerous outlets, including CNN, the Washington Post, Politico, and the New York Times, had very similar headlines about him "calling Trump's bluff." Garland's move followed claims from Trump and his supporters that the search was part of a baseless, politically motivated "witch hunt," accusations Garland pushed back against in his remarks Thursday. More:
- Trump was free to release the documents himself. In his remarks, Garland "alluded to the fact that Mr. Trump was free to release the documents himself, but has chosen not to do so," the Times notes. He said the warrant and the receipt for what the FBI took from Mar-a-Lago were provided "on the day of the search to the former president’s counsel, who was on site during the search."