Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks astatine a property league astatine the U.S. Department of Justice connected on October 24, 2022, successful Washington, D.C. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a peculiar authoritative to oversee transgression matters related to erstwhile President Donald Trump, according to a elder Justice Department official.
The probe volition see the Justice Department’s probe of Trump’s alleged retention of highly delicate nationalist information secrets astatine his Mar-a-Lago estate, arsenic good arsenic aspects of the effort by Trump and his allies effort to subvert the 2020 predetermination and disrupt the modulation of powerfulness to President Joe Biden.
The announcement triggers an bonzer probe into an ex-president and his allies and comes arsenic Trump mounts a caller bid to reclaim the presidency.