Did Biden’s Team Lie About the Mar-a-Lago Raid? Take a Look
America First Legal has retained documents that will be trouble for the White House. They allegedly show that the Biden Administration and the National Archives lied about the Mar-a-Lago raid.
So once again the question is being asked about what the actual pretext for the FBI action was and whether it was politically motivated to harm Donald Trump’s 2024 chances.
The FBI raid happened in August of 2022 and it became the central focus of a DOJ investigation into whether Trump illegally possessed classified documents at his Florida home.
They also looked into whether he obstructed justice in refusing to return them before their seizure.
Trump has claimed that he declassified everything he took while the NARA has maintained that it has a legal right to the materials.
Biden and his team claimed that they were blind-sided, having no idea about the raid nor the pretense that supposedly justified it. But these new documents indicate otherwise. America First Legal has revealed that the White House made a “special access request” that appears to have been the pretext for the raid.
New records obtained from an investigation into the circumstances of the Mar-a-Lago raid reveal the Biden White House & DOJ coordinated to obtain the Trump records. There are substantial discrepancies between what the Archives have told Congress and what appears in its internal communications.
Therefore it seems that the FBI and DOJ raided Mar-a-Lago because the documents in question were requested by the White House under a provision that allows special access to materials needed in the “conduct of current business” of the administration. As hard as that is to imagine.
It looks like the White House’s claims of being in the dark are simply not true. Whether the president knew the exact time and place of the raid or not, he knew of the investigation and actively moved it forward through executive actions.
/2 On August 8, 2022, the FBI conducted an unprecedented raid of Mar-a-Lago on the ground that potentially classified records existed there.
According to press reports, Biden Administration aides were surprised to hear of this development. pic.twitter.com/d951QcbUY8
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) April 10, 2023
/4 What this means is that there are substantial discrepancies between what the Archives has told Congress and what appears in its internal communications…
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) April 10, 2023
/6 This stunning revelation suggests that NARA was misleading Congress about the White House's role in the shocking raid of President Trump's home, and the fact that the Biden White House was acting "on behalf of" the DOJ raises significant legal concerns.
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) April 10, 2023
