New documents obtained from the National Archives appear to reveal the direct involvement of the Biden Administration in the FBI’s controversial and widely-panned raid on President Donald Trump’s residence in Florida last year.
As reported by Breitbart, the documents were obtained by the legal watchdog group America First Legal (AFL). At the time of the raid on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on August 8th, 2022, the Biden Administration claimed that it was “stunned” by the development, while the National Archives claimed that it had “not been involved in the DOJ investigation.” The excuse that the FBI and Attorney General Merrick Garland gave for carrying out the authoritarian and unprecedented raid was that President Trump allegedly possessed several classified documents, which had to be returned to the National Archives.
However, the new documents reveal that the National Archives ultimately did cooperate with the Biden FBI and DOJ due to a “special access request” from the Biden Administration, which was filed on behalf of the DOJ.
One of the facts exposed by the documents is that John Laster, the Archives official responsible for handling all access requests for presidential records, was in direct communication with the FBI as he discussed preparing the seized Trump documents for FBI review on August 23rd, 2022.
In October, the National Archives told senior Republicans Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and James Comer (R-Ky.) about the Trump documents, which the Archives “discovered that they contained classified national security information,” at which point “NARA’s OIG (Office of the Inspector General) subsequently referred the matter to DOJ on February 9, 2022.”
But the discrepancy arises from Laster’s decision to directly coordinate with the FBI himself, thus discrediting the Archives’ claims that the OIG acted independently of the Archives’ leadership. Furthermore, the Biden Administration’s attempt to use “special access request” as a pretext for a law enforcement raid is an unprecedented abuse of presidential records law.
“The special access statute authorizes special access requests to an incumbent president only when the records in question are needed for ‘the conduct of current business’ of the White House,” a spokesman for America First Legal explained further. “Providing documents to the DOJ for purposes of a criminal investigation is not the ‘current business’ of the White House.”
Reed Rubinstein, senior counselor at AFL, added that “the evidence further suggests that Biden officials in the Executive Office of the President and the Department of Justice unlawfully abused their power and then lied about it to the American people.”
Quelle surprise
No one, not one single human being gives a f*** about it. If they did the ba*tards would be in jail.
The US leviathan is a maze of bureaus and agencies that once weaponized have an almost unlimited potential for attacking political enemies of the chosen ones, now totally controlled by the progressives and supported by uniparty GOP lifers.
Democrat Lawfare from beginning to end
Of course. When this administration ends, and it will, Nixon should be anointed sainthood. Remember, Biden isn’t just a doddering old man, like Obama he’s a ruthless vindictive prick. It’s a positive character trait for ‘progressives’.
Biden certainly is a ruthless vindictive prick, but he’s also a doddering, befuddled old man who frequently has no idea what he’s saying. He’s PINO, (president in name only) and the dangerous ruthless vindictive pricks are the shadowy people behind the throne.
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
This title seems to be used more than Reader Tips. We are up to #296, and three separate posts today.
Sadly, I think Kate and her co-bloggers are merely documenting the end of the American Republic.
So did Merrick Garland lie to congress?
We keep hearing about all of the Biden questionable wrong doings and most if all are in fact true. I just cannot understand why they don,t seem to proceed any further as all we hear is how problematic they are but no action is taken.
Just the same up here with Blackie. The left can get away with anything.
We usually hear that the problem with the FBI is a “few bad apples on the 11th floor in Washington.” But the extent of documented FBI malfeasance is so vast that the whole organization seems rotten.
Even Jim Jordan and others who talk about whistleblowers don’t claim to have hundreds of them.
Hiring Christopher Wray was Trump’s biggest mistake and should disqualify him from running again. If DeSantis plays his cards right, he can differentiate himself from Trump on that very point. It looks like DeSantis has been able to attract and retain capable loyal staff, something Trump can’t do.
But Biden said he heard about it from the news. And Cringe Jean-Pierre said they had nothing to do with it.
So we knew from the get-go that they were behind it.