Rich Welsh| Joe Biden‘s White House worked directly with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the National Archives to expedite the investigation into former president Donald Trump’s handling of documents, according to memos obtained and analyzed by investigative reporter John Solomon.
I think we can we say that Joe Biden colluded with the DOJ and National Archives to raid a former president’s home.
Biden White House mouthpiece Karine Jean Pierre continually said that Joe Biden had no knowledge whatsoever of the raid and that he learned about it from media reports. Now we know that was a lie.
The Biden White House prompted the criminal investigation by removing Trump’s claims of executive privilege, according to the memos. That decision gave Merrick Garland the opening to issue the subpoena on Trump to turn over the documents he had stored at Mar-a-Lago, documents Trump declassified, yet the DOJ and FBI leaked to the news media that they were looking for classified documents. That, too, was a lie.
The subpoena, that the FBI refused to give a copy of to Trump’s lawyers who were at Mar-a-Lago during the raid, was what led to Trump’s home being raided where the FBI seized 15 boxes of records.
Incidentally, the FBI knew exactly what was in those boxes as two months prior, in June, the Bureau was given full access to the documents. In fact, Trump stopped by while the agents were there to say hello.
From Just The News:
The memos show then-White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su was engaged in conversations with the FBI, DOJ and National Archives as early as April, shortly after 15 boxes of classified and other materials were voluntarily returned to the federal historical agency from Trump’s Florida home.
By May, Su conveyed to the Archives that President Joe Biden would not object to waiving his predecessor’s claims to executive claims, a decision that opened the door for DOJ to get a grand jury to issue a subpoena compelling Trump to turn over any remaining materials he possessed from his presidency.
The machinations are summarized in several memos and emails exchanged between the various agencies in spring 2022, months before the FBI took the added unprecedented step of raiding Trump’s Florida compound with a court-issued search warrant.
First off, according to a ruling by a federal judge back in 2012, the National Archives and record Administration (NARA) has no authority to tell a president what is “presidential records.” In the case, Judicial Watch v. National Archives and Records Administration, Judicial Watch was suing to force the National Archives to get some audio tapes from the White House that President Bill Clinton took home with him and kept in a sock drawer.
Obama-appointed Judge Amy Berman Jackson dismissed Judicial Watch’s case by ruling that there was no provision in the Presidential Records Act to force the National Archives to seize records from a former president.
From the ruling:
“The Court will grant the motion to dismiss pursuant to Rule 12(b)(1) because plaintiff’s claim is not redressable. NARA does not have the authority to designate materials as “Presidential records,” NARA does not have the tapes in question, and NARA lacks any right, duty, or means to seize control of them. In other words, there has been no showing that a remedy would be available to redress plaintiff’s alleged injury even if the Court agreed with plaintiff’s characterization of the materials. Since plaintiff is completely unable to identify anything the Court could order the agency to do that the agency has any power, much less, a mandatory duty, to do, the case must be dismissed.”
So, what is this garbage that the DOJ eliminated Trump’s executive privilege to get the boxes of documents for the National Archives when a federal judge had already set the stage that a president has the right to keep documents?
The entire raid on Mar-a-Lago was a load of bullschtein. They wanted to see what was among all the documents that concerned Operation Crossfire Hurricane when Obama’s FBI, DOJ, and intelligence community back in 2016 lied to a FISA court to obtain a FISA warrant so that the FBI could spy on the Trump campaign in an effort to find dirt on Donald Trump to help Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Everyone involved in the raid on Mar-a-Lago should be held accountable for violating Trump’s rights and a court ruling that set a precedent because to this day no one has appealed the judge’s ruling.
Those documents that the Biden White House wanted were Trump’s evidence of criminal behavior by the Obama administration, of which Joe Biden was vice president.
Acting National Archivist Debra Steidel Wall sent Trump’s lawyers a letter on May 10 admitting the Biden White House’s involvement.
John Solomon via Just the News goes on:
“On April 11, 2022, the White House Counsel’s Office—affirming a request from the Department of Justice supported by an FBI letterhead memorandum—formally transmitted a request that NARA provide the FBI access to the 15 boxes for its review within seven days, with the possibility that the FBI might request copies of specific documents following its review of the boxes,” Wall wrote Trump defense attorney Evan Corcoran.
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 from gaining access to the documents.
“The Counsel to the President has informed me that, in light of the particular circumstances presented here, President Biden defers to my determination, in consultation with the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, regarding whether or not I should uphold the former President’s purported ‘protective assertion of executive privilege,’” Wall wrote. “…I have therefore decided not to honor the former President’s ‘protective’ claim of privilege.”
The memos provide the most definitive evidence to date of the current White House’s effort to facilitate a criminal probe of the man Joe Biden beat in the 2020 election and may face again as a challenger in 2024. That involvement included eliminating one of the legal defenses Trump might use to fight the FBI over access to his documents.
John Solomon reported that within two weeks of Wall’s letter to Trump’s attorneys, Merrick Garland’s DOJ sent a grand jury subpoena to Trump’s lawyers demanding the former president return the documents held at Mar-a-Lago even though they didn’t have the right to do so.
These people act like Trump was never president.
Not long after Trump received the subpoena, the FBI showed up at Mar-a-Lago and retrieved some documents and told the former president to put add a padlock on the storage locker where the documents were being stored. That was in June, only two months prior to the raid.
Two months later, the FBI snakes slithered onto the Mar-a-Lago residence and searched Trump’s home, making his lawyers stand out by the gate entrance of the estate.
So the Biden White House was fully involved as this was yet another gotcha against former President Donald Trump, who did absolutely nothing wrong. Having documents that a former president was allowed to have does not constitute an FBI raid on his home, but Joe Biden’s administration looking for what evidence Trump had on them apparently was.
And I can bet that no one will ever be held accountable for the actions of the Biden administration violating Trump’s rights.
