House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) promised on Monday that if Republicans take back the chamber after November’s midterm elections, they will investigate the Department of Justice, telling Attorney General Merrick Garland to “clear your calendar.”
“I’ve seen enough. The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization,” McCarthy said. “When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no stone unturned.”
“Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar,” McCarthy said.
McCarthy’s comments came hours after former President Trump confirmed in a lengthy statement that the FBI had raided his Mar-a-Lago residence, where he said agents “broke” into a safe.
A host of Republicans erupted after news of the raid, accusing the FBI of unfairly targeting the former president for political purposes. Trump himself lashed out at law enforcement, calling the raid “political persecution.”
The execution of a search warrant on a former president’s home is unprecedented and comes as the Justice Department continues to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and actions Trump took to attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss.
The National Archives also has reportedly asked the Justice Department to investigate after authorities recovered boxes of materials from Trump’s Florida home, which included materials he took from the White House that were considered classified. The New York Times reported that those materials appeared to be at the center of the FBI’s search.
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McCarthy threatens to probe Garland after Trump FBI raid https://t.co/wZ8fMLZkJD pic.twitter.com/QXxhYmYYZO
— The Hill (@thehill) August 9, 2022
Attorney General Garland: preserve your documents and clear your calendar. pic.twitter.com/dStAjnwbAT
— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) August 9, 2022
Republican leaders will privately tell reporters they know Trump is bad for them blah blah blah, but then every time there’s an opportunity to let him Wile E. Coyote himself off a cliff’s edge, they haul out their safety net and rush to his rescue. pic.twitter.com/zC3NJXKCQz
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) August 9, 2022
And these are all meetings withing the last 90 days, sport. https://t.co/yDF9ovwxwR
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 9, 2022
When you meet with big donors you tell them you desperately need large-$ contributions to fight back against Trump-style Republicans taking over the caucus.
Not once. Not twice. At least THREE times we've heard from folks in those meetings.
You might want to sit it out. https://t.co/9KX4Wgu4Ux
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 9, 2022
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Trump cult GOP has been saying for some time it intends to go after its enemies if the party takes over congress. Garland is now on the hit list.
What they don’t know or refuse to acknowledge is that this was not a raid, but rather a lawful search. To perform the search there had to be probable cause that a crime was committed and an affidavit to that effect was presented to the judge along with the application for the search warrant. The judge signed the warrant, and this makes the search legitimate.
This is not persecution, not politicization, not weaponization. This is what the FBI and the DOJ are obliged to do if they believe a federal crime has been committed. The system is working as it’s supposed to.
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