The FBI's Aug. 8 search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence has become a political flashpoint, with the former president and his supporters asserting it was improper.
An Oct. 16 Facebook post claims that Attorney General Merrick Garland has now been replaced, perhaps as a result of the FBI search.
“Giuliani becomes new AG," reads part of the typo-strewn caption of the Facebook post, which includes a mention of an unspecified "raid." The post includes a nearly 29-minute video.
The video was viewed more than 60,000 times in three days.
But the claim is false. The video does not provide any evidence to support the caption. Rather, it shows a portion of a Newsmax broadcast that includes a discussion of the Mar-a-Lago search, but no mention of Garland.
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USA TODAY reached out to the user who shared the claim for comment.
The Newsmax clip featured in the post contains references to the Mar-a-Lago search, but neither Garland nor Giuliani are mentioned by name in the video.
The video is cut from an Oct. 15 episode of "The Benny Report" in which host Benny Johnson interviews Trump attorney Alina Habba, who questions the propriety of the FBI search.
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