The Washington Post deleted a tweet promoting one of its stories on Wednesday that suggested Attorney General Merrick Garland “politicized” the Department of Justice by authorizing an FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Then the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago,” read the headline of a story written by Justice Department reporter Perry Stein. FBI agents searched Mar-a-Lago on Monday as part of an investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents. TNSRepublicans accused the Biden administration of using the Justice Department as a tool to persecute political opponents. One of its political reporters, Dave Weigel, was suspended for a month without pay in June for retweeting a post that was deemed sexist.

Source: Washington Post August 10, 2022 18:22 UTC