The FBI and the Justice Department are damned if they do and damned if they don’t on the question of whether to promptly explain in public why they searched for missing documents at former President Donald Trump’s Florida resort.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is facing a cacophony of demands from Republicans to address the operation, including being threatened with withering oversight if the GOP wins the House in November’s midterm election.

His failure to do so already has created a vacuum filled by Trump’s fury, misrepresentations of the search and now conspiracy theories that the bureau planted incriminating evidence at the home of the former