US attorney general calls Trump’s claim FBI was ready to shoot him ‘dangerous’

Merrick Garland says agency's standard operations plan' was also used for Biden, as ex-Trump lawyer excoriates Mar-a-Lago delays

Donald Trump's former White House lawyer has attacked the judge handling the classified documents criminal case for repeated delays and incompetence" - while the US attorney general separately criticized as dangerous" Trump's claim this week that the FBI had been authorized to shoot him during its investigation.

Former presidential counsel Ty Cobb said decisions made by Aileen Cannon, a Trump-appointed judge in the US district court in Florida who is overseeing the federal documents case, virtually guaranteed that the case would not be tried before November's presidential poll.