FBI records contradict claims Biden was ‘not aware’ of Mar-a-Lago raid
Law enforcement shouldn't be political.
FBI email communications dating back to the August 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago appear to contradict the Biden administration’s claim that then-President Joe Biden had no prior knowledge of the search of President Donald Trump’s property. The records also shed more light on how aggressively the Justice Department pushed for a search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, despite FBI objections over a lack of evidence to justify it.
The partially redacted emails, obtained by the Washington Examiner, include internal FBI communications from Aug. 3, 2022 — just five days before the raid — suggesting the search was tethered to the timing of when Biden would be briefed about the matter, and in “coordination between” the White House Counsel’s Office and the Department of Justice.
“This event is dependent upon the timeline of President Biden’s brief, decision, and coordination between [White House] Counsel and DOJ, and in turn, Evan Corcoran’s position on the override of privilege assertion and whether or not he seeks an injunction to prevent access,” according to one line of communication in the memos, reported by Fox News. Corcoran was a lawyer for Trump at the time.
The August 2022 electronic communication, labeled “FPOTUS Atty call script,” outlined plans to contact Trump’s legal team to seek cooperation and consent to search for additional classified material, after 15 boxes of records had already been voluntarily returned earlier that year.
Although they contain redactions, the emails appear to show an official from the FBI’s Washington Field Office communicating with an official within the Biden White House Counsel’s Office about Trump’s attorney Corcoran, who was tasked with handling responses over the return of both classified documents and Presidential Records Act materials.
The emails revealed the Biden White House Counsel’s office held multiple discussions with the FBI, the DOJ, and the National Archives and Records Administration in the months leading up to the search as officials assessed how to proceed.
At the time, however, the Biden administration said publicly and definitively the president and the White House at large had no advanced knowledge about the raid.
Then–press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Aug. 8, 2022, the day of the raid, that “the president was not briefed, was not aware of it,” adding that the White House learned of the search “just like the American people did.”
Other portions of the material reveal disagreement between FBI …
Law enforcement shouldn't be political.
FBI email communications dating back to the August 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago appear to contradict the Biden administration’s claim that then-President Joe Biden had no prior knowledge of the search of President Donald Trump’s property. The records also shed more light on how aggressively the Justice Department pushed for a search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, despite FBI objections over a lack of evidence to justify it.
The partially redacted emails, obtained by the Washington Examiner, include internal FBI communications from Aug. 3, 2022 — just five days before the raid — suggesting the search was tethered to the timing of when Biden would be briefed about the matter, and in “coordination between” the White House Counsel’s Office and the Department of Justice.
“This event is dependent upon the timeline of President Biden’s brief, decision, and coordination between [White House] Counsel and DOJ, and in turn, Evan Corcoran’s position on the override of privilege assertion and whether or not he seeks an injunction to prevent access,” according to one line of communication in the memos, reported by Fox News. Corcoran was a lawyer for Trump at the time.
The August 2022 electronic communication, labeled “FPOTUS Atty call script,” outlined plans to contact Trump’s legal team to seek cooperation and consent to search for additional classified material, after 15 boxes of records had already been voluntarily returned earlier that year.
Although they contain redactions, the emails appear to show an official from the FBI’s Washington Field Office communicating with an official within the Biden White House Counsel’s Office about Trump’s attorney Corcoran, who was tasked with handling responses over the return of both classified documents and Presidential Records Act materials.
The emails revealed the Biden White House Counsel’s office held multiple discussions with the FBI, the DOJ, and the National Archives and Records Administration in the months leading up to the search as officials assessed how to proceed.
At the time, however, the Biden administration said publicly and definitively the president and the White House at large had no advanced knowledge about the raid.
Then–press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Aug. 8, 2022, the day of the raid, that “the president was not briefed, was not aware of it,” adding that the White House learned of the search “just like the American people did.”
Other portions of the material reveal disagreement between FBI …
FBI records contradict claims Biden was ‘not aware’ of Mar-a-Lago raid
Law enforcement shouldn't be political.
FBI email communications dating back to the August 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago appear to contradict the Biden administration’s claim that then-President Joe Biden had no prior knowledge of the search of President Donald Trump’s property. The records also shed more light on how aggressively the Justice Department pushed for a search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, despite FBI objections over a lack of evidence to justify it.
The partially redacted emails, obtained by the Washington Examiner, include internal FBI communications from Aug. 3, 2022 — just five days before the raid — suggesting the search was tethered to the timing of when Biden would be briefed about the matter, and in “coordination between” the White House Counsel’s Office and the Department of Justice.
“This event is dependent upon the timeline of President Biden’s brief, decision, and coordination between [White House] Counsel and DOJ, and in turn, Evan Corcoran’s position on the override of privilege assertion and whether or not he seeks an injunction to prevent access,” according to one line of communication in the memos, reported by Fox News. Corcoran was a lawyer for Trump at the time.
The August 2022 electronic communication, labeled “FPOTUS Atty call script,” outlined plans to contact Trump’s legal team to seek cooperation and consent to search for additional classified material, after 15 boxes of records had already been voluntarily returned earlier that year.
Although they contain redactions, the emails appear to show an official from the FBI’s Washington Field Office communicating with an official within the Biden White House Counsel’s Office about Trump’s attorney Corcoran, who was tasked with handling responses over the return of both classified documents and Presidential Records Act materials.
The emails revealed the Biden White House Counsel’s office held multiple discussions with the FBI, the DOJ, and the National Archives and Records Administration in the months leading up to the search as officials assessed how to proceed.
At the time, however, the Biden administration said publicly and definitively the president and the White House at large had no advanced knowledge about the raid.
Then–press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Aug. 8, 2022, the day of the raid, that “the president was not briefed, was not aware of it,” adding that the White House learned of the search “just like the American people did.”
Other portions of the material reveal disagreement between FBI …
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