Garland said during his appearance before media that he moved to unseal the search warrant used in the search of Mar-a-Lago. “I think this was a brilliant press conference and the right thing to do in this extraordinary circumstance,” Neal Katyal, a legal analyst on MSNBC, said. Joe Concha, media and political columnist for The Hill and a guest on Fox News, disagreed, and quickly moved to pull the White House into the fray. And Katyal, like others, pointed out that Garland’s action puts the onus on Trump and his attorneys and supporters. “This was a bit of a put up or shut up for the Donald Trump team,” Evan Perez, CNN’s senior justice correspondent, said.

Source: CNN August 12, 2022 06:48 UTC