ABC News chief investigative reporter Josh Margolin said during a talking head segment leading up to a press conference by Attorney General Merrick Garland that Americans’ outrage over the unprecedented FBI raid of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home was anti-Semitic in nature, as Garland is Jewish.
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Margolin said that there were “factions” of Americans that he called “far right, neo-Nazis, white supremacists,” and “militia organizers calling for violence as they always have done against Jews.”

“As soon as President Trump put out confirmation on Monday that the raid had been done and was underway, we immediately started seeing factions on the far right, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, militia organizers calling for violence as they always have done against Jews,” he said. “The attorney general is Jewish.”

He continued to say that threats of violence were made against the FBI, echoing deflective comments that were made by FBI Director Chris Wray earlier on Thursday, saying that threats have been made “against the FBI, federal law enforcement, against other perceived enemies, enemies they perceive to be enemies of President Trump