Posted on 12/17/2025 6:41:39 AM PST by Navy Patriot
nternal FBI emails declassified and released this week show that agents in the bureau’s Washington Field Office (WFO) repeatedly expressed doubts about establishing probable cause for a search warrant at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in the months leading up to the August 8, 2022, raid.
Despite these concerns, Justice Department officials under the Biden administration still pushed forward with the operation...
One key email states that the “WFO does not believe (and has articulated to DOJ CES [Counterintelligence and Export Control Section]), that we have established probable cause for the search warrant for classified records at Mar-a-Lago.”
The email notes that while DOJ officials opined that probable cause had been met — requesting a broad scope covering the residence, office, and storage areas — FBI personnel viewed the supporting information as “single source,” arguing it “has not been corroborated, and may be dated.”
FBI officials also warned that pursuing a raid could be “counterproductive” and suggested less intrusive alternatives, such as direct negotiations with Trump’s attorneys to voluntarily return any remaining documents.
One agent proposed informing Trump’s legal team that a search warrant was being prepared, in hopes of encouraging cooperation and avoiding confrontation. Nonetheless, these recommendations were ultimately rejected.
In another exchange, an FBI official referenced a DOJ prosecutor’s purported statement that he frankly “doesn’t give a damn” about the optics of raiding Trump’s home. Planning documents from August 4, 2022, emphasized executing the warrant in a “professional, low-key manner” while being “mindful of the optics.”
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who released the documents, described the raid as a “miscarriage of justice,” ...
Johnson declared that the emails confirm the complete and total weaponization of the Department of Justice under the Biden administration to target political opponents, with Trump being the primary example.
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So what? Once the Dems get back into power, they’ll do worse.
bflr
This is what so many a-holes an a-hats with TDS simply refuse to acknowledge. These corrupt leftists tried to destroy Trump with everything they could. They didn’t “give a damn” as one of the scum wrote.
Trump has all the right in the world to go after these pukes and use whatever words he wants while doing it.
Screw the deep state.
To those who are frustrated with Bondi, Patel, Bongino:
Do you think this DOJ team should adopt the same aggressive but illegal methods as Wray and Garland used to persecute Trump?
It’s a serious question. For all the fire and fury about what’s not being done fast enough to satisify some, there is the concept of the rule of law and due process. Ultimately you have to choose which side you’re on and which principles you really believe in.
They(fbi) would’ve NEVER forced their way into nobama’s Mansion so near to the whitey house...
“..Do you think this DOJ team should adopt the same aggressive but illegal methods as Wray and Garland used to persecute Trump?...”
Under normal, civilized conditions, no. Always abide by the law.
However, one must realize and take into considerattion that these communist basstids have outirght declared war on us, our legal system, our country and our People......war.
Therefore, they should be getting whatever hell is coming to them....legal or illegal. All’s fair in love and war. They started it. We should finish it....spit.
We don’t got no probable cause; we don’t need no probable cause; we don’t got to show you no probable cause.
There it is.
Oh yeah, those of us that watched and read about it could see this was an invasion of Mr Trump & Melania’s privacy. The photos was lined up perfectly to catch the shot to discredit President Trump. Frankly, all those that participated should be fired and the people that authorized it should be IN JAIL.
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