Secret service personnel near the home of former US President Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago. File photoWASHINGTON, Aug 11The US Department of Justice has filed a court order in which FBI agents searched the estate of former US President Donald Trump, Department Chief Merrick Garland said. «I personally approved the decision to request the warrant to search,» he told reporters. According to him, the department filed an application with the court to obtain permission to see the search warrant. «The ministry filed an application to make the documents public,» Garland added.
Trump refused to answer questions from the New York Attorney General. -Lago was searched by FBI agents. The former president added that they did not allow anyone, including lawyers, to be present during the searches. The New York Times, citing sources, claims that the FBI was most likely interested in the documents that Trump took with him from the White House. In February, the Washington Post claimed that employees of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) seized several boxes of papers from the ex-president's estate. Trump was in New York at the time of the search, Politico wrote.
