BREAKING: FBI Doubted Probable Cause in Mar-a-Lago Raid!

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Politics won. The rule of law lost. Politics won. President Trump’s civil liberties lost. Politics won. The president’s prerogative. President Trump’s prerogative as president of the United States lost. Politics won. Our Constitution lost all in the Mara Lago raid. We received a new batch of important documents under the Freedom of Information Act about the lawfare that I’ve been highlighting. And one of the worst aspects of the lawfare, which was the illicit, in my view, raid on the home of President Trump, then former President Trump, um his home at Mara Lago by the Biden gang, namely the Justice Department, the FBI, and who knows who else. And the FBI, to its credit, uh, gave us documents quickly. This is an example that maybe they’re paying attention a little bit on some of these transparency issues. The, uh, FBI is we’ve been fighting in court day after day, lawsuit after lawsuit to get access to records. And in this case, we asked for records and we got them almost immediately. So, it was just great. This is the way it’s supposed to work. Director Cash Patel, this is the way it’s supposed to work. DOJ leadership, it’s just this is perfect. We ask for the documents. We get the documents under the law. And the documents, you can see why they’ve been hidden from the American people for so long until this disclosure to Judicial Watch abide the FBI. So, as the release uh says here, we obtained the 207 pages of those FBI records that and the headline is they were concerned that there was no probable cause to raid the home of President Trump at Mara Lago. I’ll say it one more time, no probable cause. That means there was no good faith reason to raid his home. And nonetheless, the Biden gang at the Justice Department with the acquiescence obviously of FBI leadership in the end because that’s the way it technically or practically has to work raided his home in an unprecedented fashion and and the abuses have reverberated through our national consciousness since then. And this shows that there was corruption behind the raid. And it gets even deeper than just the FBI’s concern about probable cause. The big email is the tw July 12th, 202022 email. Let me bring it up here. I’ll show you what it looks like and then I’ll read it to you. I won’t force you to read it on the screen because it might be too difficult. So, here’s a here’s a bunch of material withheld for various reasons that I won’t go into. So essentially the Washington field office uh moved forward with an investigative plan much of which the purpose was withheld but it’s typically about uh it’s about what they call plasmic echo. Plasmic echo was the uh code name for the investigation into President Trump’s handling of uh presidential files after his election or after he left office. And uh you can see they used to black it out, but I think someone in government figured out we’re better off not blacking out documents because it looks terrible. Let’s just white it out. So these are blacked out documents. And this is the key part. So they said other options for resolution at the end. Washington field office has made numerous suggestions to DOJ justice department over the course of this investigation that the most expedient way to ensure recovery of all classified documents would be to go through Mr. Corkran then uh Trump’s attorneys uh Evan Corkran was Trump’s attorney at the time. DOJ has persistently disagreed. New NAR referral, the National Archives and Records Administration, which is a bureaucracy that just houses government documents or presidential records. Referral for all presidential records act records versus classified. If NARA pursued a presidential records which are likely to still be located, let me start over on that again. If NAR pursued presidential records which are likely to be still located at Mara Lago, they could recover any additional records which may upon review identify additional classified material. Washington field office has been rebuffed at this request by DOJ. So they were just asking for let us look at president presidential records that may be covered by the act and see if there are classified records there. The field office does not believe and has articulated to DOJ counter intelligence and export control section that we have established probable cause for the search warrant at Mara Lago. DOJ has opined they do requesting a wide scope including residence office and storage place space. This is the key phrase here right up top there. WFO, that’s the field office, the most powerful field office arguably in the wa in the FBI, the Washington field office here in Washington DC, does not believe and has articulated to the relevant agency at the Justice Department that we have established probable cause for the search warrant at Mara Lago and DOJ, which again DOJ meaning political appointees of President Biden have opined. they do. And then they note, finally, if the goal is to identify and recover classified records quickly so as to protect the information, the five weeks fixated spent fixated on probable cause for a search warrant have been counterproductive. So their point was talk to the lawyers and get in there and try to get them to give you any classified records you think are there, which is what President Trump had offered to them. you can go look and see anything you want and and take any what you believe to be classified records. Now, under the Presidential Records Act, he wasn’t required to do that. I mean, this is the big lie about this whole scenario. under the Presidential Records Act, under the president of the Presidential Records Act, and I think only under to the degree it’s constitutional. The only appropriate reading of the Presidential Records Act is that the president has the authority to take records that he deems to be personal and no one can second guessess that authority. And yes, that means taking records that were quote classified when they were created in the agency, but he’s declassified them by converting them to personal records. That’s what the law allows for. How do we know that? Because we similarly had pursued a case against Bill Clinton in the sock draw case. You may have heard of it. Bill Clinton had recordations made of him by an author of his communications with foreign leaders and members of Congress, basically recording his duties as a president or his operations as a president. He kept them in his sock drawer infamously and took them with him and didn’t turn them over to the National Archives. And we said those are presidential records. The Justice Department at the time said, “No, they’re presidential records.” I mean, they’re not presidential records. And in fact, if they’re classified, they’re not classified anymore because he took them. They’re presumptively declassified and we couldn’t get them. A judge said, “What are we going to do? Raid the president’s home? And then Trump comes in and the Justice Department takes a complete 180 and says, “Oh, no, no, no. All that all that classified records permission that we gave to Bill Clinton to take with uh with him that we deemed to be declassified and personal to him, we’re going to pretend that doesn’t apply to Trump.” So to be clear, under Bill Clinton took records just like Trump did and the Justice Department said that was perfectly appropriate even though some of those records were presumptively quote classified. Trump took records just like Bill Clinton did and they tried to put him in jail for it. Oh yes, and another thing, Joe had done the same darn thing and they didn’t want to prosecute him at all or even investigate him. And to the degree they were, they were hiding it from the American people and protecting Joe as they were raiding the home of Donald Trump. And here we’ve got smoking gun documents. again, smoking gun documents that the FBI thought there was no probable cause to raid the home of President Trump. And kudos to the FBI for releasing this information as quickly as they did to us. Now, it’s years late admittedly, but we had the specific request and they responded quickly and you know, despite the redactions with plenty of important information. Again, a separate internal communication reinforces the agents reject rejected the legal basis and the scope of the search. DOJ has inquired as to an operations plan for a search or search warrant of Mara Lago. The field office relayed that we are not in agreement for probable cause on the search warrant. Washington field office has an ops plan in place that will can be quickly updated between FBI at Miami and FBI I guess the Washington field office. However, blank the names redacted does not believe we have probable cause for the Trump office or the bedroom due to the recency and issues of boxes versus classified information. Therefore, as we are in disagreement on a search warrant in scope, we are not yet file finalizing a search warrant as we are missing relevant logistics and details. So, they were at loggerheads. DOJ wanted to run in there, raid the president’s bedroom, and the FBI said no. And eventually, they were forced to. Obviously, the history is the raid occurred. So politics won, the rule of law lost. Politics won. President Trump’s civil liberties lost. Politics won the president’s prerogative. President Trump’s prerogative as president of the United States lost. Politics won. Our Constitution lost all in the Mara Lago raid. These documents demonstrate that. There’s another email that shows that the FBI said, you know, let us talk to the president’s lawyers because the DOJ is just hamfisted and causing problems. And the DOJ’s response was he frankly uh this is one of the lawyers for the DOJ, one of Trump’s uh one of Biden’s appointees, he frankly doesn’t give a damn about the optics. And they highlight how Mr. Brat, who became a top official also for Jack Smith’s uh jihad against Trump, quote, has already built an antagonistic relationship with the former president’s attorney, then President then former President Trump. So even just communicating with Corkerin, who was his lawyer, about the search warrant would should have been done by the FBI. And of course, DOJ didn’t do any of that. Another email suggests that the FBI uh the press had heads up on the search. So, how did that happen? So, another abuse of power, a leak about the search, it looks like, and this is interesting. Another document shows that a left-wing group or left-wing groups including citizens for responsibility and ethics in Washington and notorious left-wing group that was actually created uh because of judicial watch. They saw judicial watch was effective. So they came up with some uh front uh left-wing group for the left to pursue ethics issues targeting only conservatives. Now of course we we target both political parties. crew uh was obviously just targeting uh Donald Trump in this regard. Uh and they had sent a letter with these non-serious claims about the presidential records act and the letter it looks like helped generate the prosecu the investigation and the raid subsequent. So, it looks like a left-wing interest group worked with the Justice Department and FBI to get the president’s home raided. It’s here in black and white. Letter to AG and director from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National Security Archive. Another left-wing group dated 2822. writing regarding President Donald Trump and other White House officials demonstrating a serious regard for their recordkeeping responsibilities under Presidential Records Act, requesting DOJ investigate whether former President Trump violated federal criminal law by willfully mutilating and destroying critical records of his presidency before leaving office. and they moved that into the system and a few days later they opened up the investigation officially. These documents show the FBI knew there were there was no probable cause if Biden’s justice department pushed forward with an abusive raid on President Trump’s Mara Lago home. This is an historic or I would say infamous abuse of power that demands full accountability and Judicial Watch will continue pursuing additional disclosures to uncover the full truth behind one of the most controversial federal investigations in American history. There’s been nothing like it in American history, the targeting of President Trump. And once again, it’s Judicial Watch fronting front and center getting you key truths about the level of abuse. This is more evidence, in my view, of criminal conduct by DOJ and FBI officials. You had FBI folks who were in the middle of the investigation suggesting there was no probable cause for a search warrant into the home of a president of the United States, or at least a former president of the United States. and they did it anyway. How is that not under criminal investigation? It’s really inexcusable. I give credit to the FBI Cash Patel’s team for releasing this material pretty quickly to us. On the other hand, where are the arrests? I say that advisedly. I know it doesn’t mean an arrest is going to mean, but that’s a shorthand for where are the investigations? Where are the serious grand jury investigations calling in people? And and and as I said earlier in talking about the firing of Pam Bondi, I don’t think the FBI can investigate the FBI. The Justice Department can’t investigate the Justice Department. There should be outside entities appointed by the president who are doing the investigation into this abuse of power. Now remember, Judicial Watch uh in retaliation for our calling attention to these abuses of power, specifically the Mara Lago’s garb, the Mara Lago garbage and highlighting the 180 the Justice Department took from the Clinton’s doctoral case, resulted in them sending the FBI to my home, resulted in a subpoena to Judicial Watch, resulted in me having to go before a grand jury for hours and getting harassed. to name other to include other abuses that I haven’t even gotten into yet. And here there was no basis. So they were harassing me for suggesting there was no basis when the FBI knew there was no basis to raid the man’s home. And I get hauled in for a grand jury as quote a witness being asked about what than retaliation over my blowing the whistle on this attack on Trump’s home. Outrageous. Outrageous. And so it’s unsurprising to me when an attorney general kind of for a month, a year and a half, practically speaking, does nothing on any of this, gets fired for by President Trump. Is he thinking of this specific issue? No. But I’m sure if he watched this, he’d be as angry as I am or as you are. So, we’ll see if we get other information from on the raid and the Mara Lago abuse from the FBI. We hope so. You can look at the documents. Go to our website. The link is below because there’s more there. I can’t get into it all here. Read, educate yourself on this. Share this with your co with your friends, your family, members of your church. and call your members of Congress saying, “What what are you guys doing about this? What are you doing?” Because they’re not doing anything. I mean, they’re asking some questions. They want to get documents. There are some members who kind of are upset about this as we are, but they’re fully funding the Justice Department and the FBI. There’s been no financial or budgetary consequences or even policy changes out of Congress despite this wild abuse of power by the Justice Department and FBI. A Congress nominally controlled by Republicans. And I’m tired of it. Of course, I’ve been tired of it for nearly three decades here at Judicial Watch, but I’m willing to be um upset on behalf of the American people for as long as it takes because we only got one country and it’s worth protecting. Thanks for watching. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button and like our video down below.