Mar-a-Lago raid

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A day after the search, Republicans rounded on the 55-year-old former justice department official, demanding that he answer to Congress for giving the green light to search the former president’s residence. Congressman Mike Turner of Ohio, the top GOP lawmaker on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, demanded Mr Wray appear before Congress to answer questions. “Congress deserves immediate answers from you as to the actions you ordered,” Mr Turner wrote in a letter to the FBI director...Jim Jordan, the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, called for Mr Wray to “come to the House Judiciary Committee this Friday and answer our questions about this action today, which has never happened in American history.” There were even calls to “defund the FBI” from some of Mr Trump’s most fervent supporters, and allegations of a deep state conspiracy.

Who is Christopher Wray, the FBI director who (probably) authorised the search of Mar-a-Lago?

• Christopher Wray, the FBI director happens to be a Trump appointee..
  

The Justice Department subpoenaed former President Trump months before federal law enforcement executed a search warrant of his Mar-a-Lago estate this week, The New York Times reported Thursday. According to the Times, investigators had been concerned about classified national security information that might have remained at Trump’s Florida property, even in the months after the National Archives recovered 15 boxes of White House materials from there in January.

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• Trump had months to give the missing documents back
  

The Justice Department on Thursday moved to unseal a warrant authorizing a search of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate this week following escalating demands for answers about the unprecedented investigation. Pro-Trump backlash to FBI search fuels concern over political violence The Memo: Legal storms engulf Trump “The public’s clear and powerful interest in understanding what occurred under these circumstances weighs heavily in favor of unsealing,” Justice Department lawyers wrote in a court filing submitted Thursday afternoon.

DOJ asks court to unseal Trump search warrant | The Hill