Donald Trump said he supports US Attorney General Merrick Garland’s call to release the search warrant used to raid Mar-a-Lago. FBI officials searched the former President’s mansion earlier this week.

Trump wrote on TruthSocial, “Not only will I not oppose the release of documents … I am going a step further by ENCOURAGING the immediate release of those documents.”

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US Attorney General Merrick said the Justice Department had requested a court to “unseal” the documents related to the raid. He cited “the public’s clear and powerful interest” in what happened.

The Justice department appeared to recognize that its silence since the search had created a vacuum for bitter verbal attacks by Trump and his allies, according to reports from Associated Press. The Justice Department, in its new filing, also said that disclosing information about it now would not harm the court’s functions.

FBI officials were looking for classified documents that the former President allegedly took with him before leaving the White House. Reports from Washington Post say these were classified documents about America’s nuclear programme.

Should the warrant be released, it could disclose unflattering information about the former president and about FBI scrutiny of his handling of sensitive government documents right as he prepares for another run for the White House.

During his successful 2016 campaign, he pointed frequently to an FBI investigation into his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, over whether she mishandled classified information. 

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Neither Trump nor the FBI has said anything about what documents the FBI might have recovered, or what precisely agents were looking for.

In a post to his Truth Social platform, Trump said that his “attorneys and representatives were cooperating fully” prior to the search, and that government officials “could have had whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, if we had it.”