Mat Margolis;
The picture of the Biden administration’s weaponization of federal law enforcement keeps getting uglier. New records that Judicial Watch obtained reveal that the FBI’s own agents believed there was no legal basis for the Aug. 8, 2022, raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, and they said so repeatedly.
The Biden DOJ didn’t care.
We know that then-Attorney General Merrick Garland personally signed off on the raid. But the agents actually doing the work weren’t on board. A July 13, 2022, email from the Washington Field Office said, “WFO does not believe (and has articulated to DOJ CES), that we have established probable cause for the search warrant at Mar a Lago. DOJ has opined that they do, requesting a wide scope including residence, office, storage space.”
The agents argued that the most efficient path to recovering any classified documents would have been cooperation with Trump’s attorney, Evan Corcoran. Instead, the DOJ buried that option and demanded a raid.
The records show FBI agents spent five weeks pushing back on the probable cause question, time they said was “counterproductive” to the stated goal of protecting classified information.