DoJ has asked court to unseal Trump search warrant, Merrick Garland says

The US justice department (DoJ) has asked a court to unseal the search warrant the FBI received before searching the Florida estate of Donald Trump, Merrick Garland said on Thursday.

The DoJ has been investigating the potential mishandling of classified information since the National Archives said it had received from Mar-a-Lago 15 boxes of White House records, including documents containing classified information, earlier this year.

Since the search Republicans, led by Trump, have attacked the FBI and the DoJ and accused it of conducting a politically motivated investigation.

The fury of the Republican response has prompted fears that FBI agents and officials could be placed in danger. Earlier on Thursday, an armed man decked out in body armor tried to breach a security screening area at an FBI field office in Ohio. The man then fled and exchanged gunfire in a standoff with law enforcement, authorities said.