Trump sent cryptic message to Merrick Garland before warrant was unsealed: 'The country is on fire. What can I do to reduce the heat?'

Former President Donald Trump attempted to convey a cryptic message to Attorney General Merrick Garland following the FBI raid of his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, a report says.

According to The New York Times, Trump wanted Garland to know that he had been speaking with people around the country and that they were enraged by the FBI search.

"The country is on fire. What can I do to reduce the heat?" was the message Trump wanted to be conveyed to Garland, a person familiar with the exchange told the paper.

A person close to the former president reached out to a Justice Department official to give Garland the message, the paper reported. It is not clear if the message reached him.

Several people took to social media to suggest that Trump's message to Garland could be interpreted as a veiled threat.

Robert Maguire, a research director at the nonpartisan Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said that the message appeared to suggest that Trump can "fan the flames of violence."

—Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) August 14, 2022

Since news broke of the FBI raid, armed Trump supporters have protested outside an FBI office in Phoenix, Arizona, and a gunman was killed after trying to breach an FBI building in Cincinnati, Ohio.

A law enforcement source told CNN that the FBI is investigating an "unprecedented" number of threats against personnel following the Mar-a-Lago raid.

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Exclusive — Republican NY Congressional Candidate Carl Paladino on Mar-a-Lago Raid: Susan Rice Likely Behind ‘Gestapo Tactics’

Deep State types such as Susan Rice are likely behind the FBI’s raid of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, Carl Paladino, a Republican upstate New York businessman who is running for Congress in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, told Breitbart News Saturday. He contended that it would have to be someone other than President Biden, who “isn’t there” but, rather, is vacationing “all the time.”

“RINOs” do not want change in Washington, DC, Paladino said as he described the current Republican Caucus in the House as a “disaster,” pointing to the Trump era as an example of how to get things done.

“People admired him [Trump] for that tenacity,” going after the system every day, Paladino said, particularly “fighting the Washington swamp.”

“[If] he had another term, [he] would be able to do wonderful things for this country,” the candidate said, explaining that he, too, hopes to bring that sort of leadership to the nation’s capital. However, there are currently so many distractions, he continued, pointing to the FBI’s shocking raid of Mar-a-Lago.

“We got all these headaches. We got Mar-a-Lago. We got all these distractions, which are, which are just planted there. It seems like it’s all been pre-planned in some respect,” he said, explaining that leadership is nowhere to be found. What is more, Paladino said, individuals such as Susan Rice, director of the United States Domestic Policy Council, are likely pulling the strings behind the scenes.

“They’re out there really wanting an illegitimate government because Biden is just not around. I mean, is not only physically, but mentally. I don’t think he’s around. He’s not engaged,” he said, blasting the “couple of unelected people who are running government.” He even pointed to former President Barack Obama, who is “still very active in our, in our government” and “works through people like [Ron] Klain and Susan Rice, all of whom come from the [George] Soros world.”

More at: https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2022/08/13/republican-ny-congressional-candidate-carl-paladino-mar-a-lago-raid-susan-rice-likely-behind-gestapo-tactics/