A new report claims that 46th President Joe Biden’s White House “facilitated” the ongoing Department of Justice probe and recent FBI raid on 45th President Donald Trump’s resort and home.
The report by John Solomon at Just The News reveals that officials placed highly within the Biden administration were given permission from Biden to waive Trump’s claims to executive privilege. This likely means Biden personally authorized the investigation of his chief political rival, according to memos reviewed by Just The News, Alan Dershowitz and Rep. Jim Jordan and presented in the report.
One memo, quoted by Solomon in his Just The News article, reveals that National Archivist Debra Steidel Wall told Trump’s lawyers that “President Biden defers to my determination” in whether to “uphold” Trump’s “purported ‘protective assertion of executive privilege,'” and informed them, “I have therefore decided not to honor” Trump’s executive privilege.
This allowed the Department of Justice to call a grand jury to determine whether force should be used to confiscate documents Trump took to Mar-a-Lago when ending his first term. Ultimately, this reveals that the White House was likely playing coy when it claimed that it had no advanced knowledge of the Mar-a-Lago raid.
Biden White House claim of “no knowledge” quickly exposed.
Biden White House facilitated DOJ's criminal probe against Trump, scuttled privilege claims: memos https://t.co/aUuDGmQ3R6 via @JustTheNews
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) August 23, 2022
Trump’s allies quickly seized on the issue, with radio and TV host Mark Levin declaring the actions relayed in the memos an “impeachable offense against Biden” and talk radio host Sebastian Gorka describing the investigation and raid as a “stitch up.”
New York Post columnist Amanda Devine summarized that “The Biden White House is knee deep in the Mar-a-Lago fiasco”.
Another impeachable offense against Biden:https://t.co/m6rPZwF2mJ
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) August 23, 2022
BREAKING
“That letter revealed Biden empowered the National Archives and Records Administration to waive any claims to executive privilege that Trump might wage to block DOJ”
It was all a stitch up:https://t.co/cyd757kBrS@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews
— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) August 23, 2022
The news broke late on Monday night, and earlier that day the judge assigned to the case – Bruce Reinhart, a former lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein’s associates – formally declined the Department of Justice’s attempt to block the release of the affidavit that resulted in the warrant to raid Trump’s home.
Investigators claimed that releasing the affidavit would give the public undue knowledge of the case, but Reinhart cited public interest and the “unprecedented” nature of the case while demanding any requests for redactions to the affidavit be delivered by August 25.
Related: Adam Schiff Stumped When Asked Why DOJ Waited 18 Months to Raid Trump’s Home
It also came the same day Trump released a statement on Truth Social indicating he is taking legal action after the FBI seized his passports, and alleged that they took documents that violated his “attorney-client and executive privilege” in their hours-long raid that, at one point, involved a safe cracker breaking into Trump’s hotel-style safe.
Truth Social
While the White House previously maintained that Biden had no advanced knowledge of the raid, with reports claiming they learned about it from the press, Attorney General Merrick Garland ultimately admitted that he “personally approved” the Mar-a-Lago raid.
“I personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this manner,” said Garland earlier this month, before claiming that “The Department does not take such decision lightly.”
