Rep. Mike Turner says Trump ‘not above the law’ as Marjorie Taylor Greene files articles of impeachment against Attorney General Merrick Garland

  • Some Republican officials are calling for more facts to come out while others have skipped right to calling for top DOJ officials’ ouster
  • FBI agents conducted an unannounced search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday, over documents sought by National Archives 
  • Rep. Turner of Ohio said ‘no one is above the law’ but heaped skepticism on whether the documents in Trump’s possession warranted such a severe action
  • A new FBI and DHS bulletin warns of ‘increased threats’ against DOJ workers
  • GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a former FBI agent, urged Trump to call for calm 

The FBI‘s unannounced search of Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago resort last week has divided the Republican Party, as some heap criticism on the Justice Department while others caution their voters to wait for all the facts to come out.

It comes after a week of explosive revelations that began with the FBI operation to retrieve classified documents sought by the National Archives, included Attorney General Merrick Garland stating he personally approved the request that set the raid in motion, and capped off with accusations that the ex-president may have illegally taken national security records from the White House when he left office.

‘On a bipartisan basis, Congress is saying, show us the goods. We want to know, one, what did the Department of Justice and the FBI tell the judge that they were going to find and what did they find?’ GOP Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio told CNN‘s State of the Union on Sunday.

‘Now, clearly, no one is above the law. Donald Trump is not above the law. And Attorney General Garland is not above the law either.’

The warrant was approved by a federal judge and unsealed Friday based on an agreement between Trump’s attorneys and the DOJ. But lawmakers like Turner from both sides of the aisle have demanded the release of the affidavit, which would include details like why the warrant was sought in the first place.

Meanwhile others within the GOP have responded to the raid by accusing Garland of weaponizing the DOJ against one of President Joe Biden’s political rivals, citing Trump’s hints that he may run for president again in 2024.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, one of Trump’s most vocal allies in Congress, announced on Friday that she had filed articles of impeachment against Garland.

Greene claimed Garland’s personal approval for agents to seek a search warrant of Trump’s Florida home ‘constitutes a blatant attempt to persecute a political opponent.’

Before the warrant was unsealed she said the attorney general’s request to make it public ‘constitutes an attempt to intimidate, harass, and potentially disqualify a political challenger to President Joseph R Biden, Jr’ – despite even Trump calling for the document to be released.

The largely symbolic impeachment filing is highly unlikely to pass the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives.

The White House has repeatedly stated that Biden had no prior knowledge of the raid, nor of Garland’s remarks on Thursday regarding it.