【《We Chinese in America》Media Editor Tang Zhao, August 11, 2022】Attorney General Merrick Garland said today that he "personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant" for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. Garland said the department "does not take such actions lightly" and first pursues "less intrusive" means to retrieve material. Garland noted that it was Trump's "right" to reveal Monday's FBI search of his property and that all Americans are entitled to a presumption of innocence. Garland added that the Justice Department has asked to make public the property receipt detailing what agents found inside the Trump property.

Conservative journalist reported that Trump was sent the subpoena months before the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida on Monday. The source familiar with the matter said the subpoena was related to documents that Trump’s legal team discussed with Justice Department officials at a previously reported meeting on June 3.

The federal officials who went to Mar-a-Lago for the June meeting were "coming down to retrieve the documents that were being requested" in the subpoena, the source familiar with the matter said, adding that the meeting was arranged with the Trump team's understanding that turning over relevant documents that day would fulfill the subpoena.

 The New York Times reported that federal officials were prompted to conduct the search of Mar-a-Lago because uncollected material was particularly sensitive to national security.

The source familiar with the matter told NBC News that Trump's lawyers last heard from the Justice Department before the FBI search shortly after the June meeting when federal officials asked for additional security in the storage facility where documents were held. Trump's team added a second lock to the basement storage area, the source said.

(Source: NBC News)

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