Ohio Rep. Mike Turner, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, urged at a news conference on Friday that Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray explain “the imminent national security threat upon which they based their decision” to search former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and for more information regarding an informant that reportedly helped the FBI.
“There were many other options available to them,” Turner said. “We believe that after the release today that these questions will still remain unanswered.”
Turner praised Garland for requesting that the search warrant and property receipt from the search be unsealed, but he criticized the FBI’s “method” in searching the former president’s Florida home.
“We’re very concerned of the method that was used in raiding Mar-a-Largo in the…
