Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, the head of the House Intelligence Committee under Nancy Pelosi’s Congress, was unable to explain why the Department of Justice and FBI waited 18 months into Joe Biden’s first term to raid 45th President Donald Trump’s home and resort.
Since last Monday’s raid on Trump’s home and resort, Mar-a-Lago, Democrats and liberal pundits have stressed that the FBI would not take such an action unless the DOJ was sure Trump had done something wrong. Some have gone as far as suggesting that Trump may have been illegally harboring nuclear secrets, though Trump, his lawyers, and most pundits have dismissed these claims.
If they are true, however, it does beg the question: Why did the Democrat-controlled federal government wait more than 18 months after Trump left office to raid Mar-a-Lago and recover the nuclear codes (or whatever they’re saying Trump kept today), when the secrets held within those files were apparently a risk to national security?
Related: Trump Ally: Mar-a-Lago Raid Was FBI’s Latest Attempt To Protect Hillary Clinton
Schiff was unable to offer a good explanation when interviewed on Sunday by Marg Brennan on “Face The Nation”
“Uh, I don’t know,” replied Schiff after being asked why the government would wait nearly two years to take action against Trump if he were illegally in possession of nuclear secrets.
Why did the DOJ wait 18 months to retrieve the sensitive documents Trump kept? “I don't know, but if the Trump people represented that they provided all the classified or national security information and didn't, that's a serious problem,” Rep. Schiff tells @margbrennan pic.twitter.com/4ntVrqtaaR
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) August 14, 2022
“If, uh, the Trump people represented that they provided all the classified or national security information and didn’t, that’s a serious problem,” Schiff claimed.
“I could tell you anyone in the intelligence community that had, uh, documents like that marked top secret SCI, uh, in their residence after authorities went to them, um, you know, they would be under serious investigation.”
Schiff’s statements make him the latest high ranking Democrat official to leave the public wanting more since the raid on Trump’s home.
Last week, after days of keeping his silence, Joe Biden’s Attorney General, Merrick Garland, finally spoke in a brief, scripted public statement in which he refused to refer to Trump by name and extolled the virtue of his employees and those at the FBI.
In that statement, Garland revealed that he “personally approved” the raid on Trump’s home, and claimed that “The Department does not take such decision lightly.”
