MIKE DAVIS: FBI knew Mar-a-Lago raid was illegal, but Biden DOJ made them do it

President Trump has faced unprecedented lawfare, including 4 indictments, 2 impeachments, and countless lawsuits aimed astatine keeping him from power, confiscating his wealthiness and adjacent putting him successful situation for life. The astir stark example? The FBI’s August 2022 raid of his Mar-a-Lago property. This week, we learned that adjacent FBI agents did not judge determination was probable origin for the sham raid.

The Fourth Amendment is cardinal to our Republic. The authorities cannot hunt oregon prehend one’s home, office, papers, oregon idiosyncratic without probable cause. Usually, authorities indispensable get a hunt warrant anterior to searching oregon seizing.

When the raid of Mar-a-Lago became public, lawfare opponents were horrified, for we had crossed the Rubicon. FBI agents rummaged done Trump’s idiosyncratic effects and took his passport. They staged photos of folders supposedly containing classified accusation haphazardly strewn astir and the Justice Department nether then-President Biden released them to the media to formed Trump successful a antagonistic light.

This representation contained successful a tribunal filing by the Department of Justice connected Aug. 30, 2022, and redacted by successful portion by the FBI, shows a photograph of documents seized during the Aug. 8 hunt by the FBI of erstwhile President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property successful Florida. On Wednesday, an appeals tribunal lifted a judge's ruling that blocked the Justice Department from utilizing classified records seized. (Department of Justice via AP)

The worldly successful question consisted of records that Trump was allowed to support nether the Presidential Records Act. A conflict started betwixt Trump and the National Archives, which wanted immoderate of the documents. Biden’s White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su waived enforcement privilege, allowing the Biden Justice Department to statesman an investigation. The Justice Department obtained a warrant to hunt for and prehend the records, and Trump was indicted for allegedly unlawful retention of classified materials the pursuing year.

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The full process was corrupt. First, the records were nether Secret Service protection. Former presidents person national funds for unafraid bureau abstraction truthful that they tin support classified records. Former presidents, anterior to Biden’s disgraceful determination to fastener retired Trump, were entitled to person classified quality briefings. Trump allowed authorities officials to travel to Mar-a-Lago to presumption the records and was opposed lone to turning them over.

Second, the motive for the instrumentality of the records had thing to bash with information concerns. Trump had galore records concerning Operation Crossfire Hurricane, the authoritative sanction for the Obama-Clinton Russian Collusion Hoax. The 2016 run of Hillary Clinton cooked up the assertion that Trump colluded with Russia to hack Clinton’s emails. Trump sued Clinton and the Democratic National Committee based connected the Russia investigation.

Former Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith enters a country successful the Rayburn House Office Building to springiness his deposition earlier the House Judiciary Committee, portion of its oversight into DOJ investigations into President Donald Trump, connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

Third, the warrant was a sham due to the fact that the magistrate was not neutral and detached. Magistrate Judge Bruce Rinehart of the Southern District of Florida signed the warrant. Just six weeks earlier, Rinehart had recused himself from the Trump/Clinton lawsuit. The crushed was obvious: Rinehart, portion a civilian successful 2017, had written a Facebook station viciously bashing Trump. The Biden Justice Department ran to a blatantly biased justice successful bid to procure the warrant.

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This week, done documents released by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, we learned that adjacent agents successful the FBI’s Washington Field Office did not deliberation that probable origin existed for the raid. The engagement of the Washington Field Office itself is scandalous. The alleged transgression occurred successful the Southern District of Florida. Yet, Biden Special Counsel Jack Smith utilized a D.C. expansive assemblage to get subpoenas. D.C. voted for Trump’s opponents astatine a clip of 90% oregon much during the past 3 elections. Smith besides went to shamelessly leftist D.C. Chief District judges Beryl Howell and James Boasberg to get favorable rulings. Smith lone indicted Trump successful the Southern District of Florida due to the fact that helium feared that a D.C. condemnation would get reversed implicit improper venue.

Federal Judge Aileen Cannon. (US Courts) (US Courts )

Florida District Judge Aileen Cannon invalidated Smith’s assignment connected law grounds. Then, Trump won a decisive electoral triumph past November, and Smith ended his ignominious witch hunt, fleeing backmost to Europe.

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The lawfare waged against Trump, his aides, his supporters, and adjacent members of Congress, astir blatant during Operation Arctic Frost, wherever astir a twelve senators had their telephone records seized, threatened to destruct the Republic. The lawfare perpetrators failed, however, and it is clip for ineligible accountability successful the signifier of an indictment for conspiracy against rights pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 241.

The authorities searched a erstwhile president’s location without probable origin to prehend records successful bid to support a corrupt erstwhile statesmanlike campaigner and to extremity the aboriginal governmental prospects of Trump. And the authorities procured the hunt warrant from a biased judicial disgrace who had nary concern anyplace adjacent immoderate lawsuit involving Trump. What occurred is simply a stain connected the judiciary and the nation. Justice must, and will, come.