Former President Donald Trump on Thursday fiercely pushed back against Attorney General Merrick Garland’s assertion that the Justice Department had no choice but to search his Florida residence.
Mr. Trump insisted that he was cooperating with investigators and willing to provide the government with whatever it asked for, but the Justice Department sprung the surprise search “out of nowhere.”
He said he followed the government’s instructions to put an additional lock on a certain area of his Mar-a-Lago estate, suggesting the conversations between his attorneys and the government were about classified materials.
“My attorneys and representatives were cooperating fully, and very good relationships had been established,” Mr.