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DOJ sought to ‘brief’ Biden on Mar-a-Lago raid before search — didn’t ‘give a damn about the optics’
NY Post ^ | February 25, 2026 | Josh Christenson

Posted on 02/27/2026 6:01:57 AM PST by Twotone

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice held off on searching President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate for classified documents until then-President Joe Biden could receive a “brief” and officials could “coordinate” with the White House Counsel’s office, according to unclassified emails obtained by The Post.

The emails undercut Biden’s claim that he had no prior knowledge of the FBI raid on his political rival’s home. They also reveal the desire by at least one top DOJ official to charge ahead with a dramatic search, saying he didn’t “give a damn about the optics.”

The communications, which were first reported by Fox News, with DOJ and FBI officials took place between April 2022 and the days immediately following the Aug. 8 execution of a search warrant that year on Trump’s residence in Palm Beach, Fla.

“This event is dependent upon the timeline of President Biden’s brief, decision, and coordination between WH Counsel and DOJ,” an unidentified FBI official wrote in a May 10 email to others in the bureau’s Washington Field Office.

The message underscored how Trump’s attorney Evan Corcoran could potentially seek “an injunction to prevent access” or assert the former president’s executive privilege.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: doj; fbi; harassment; maralago; persecution; raid; trump

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1 posted on 02/27/2026 6:01:57 AM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

The very same people who kept insisting they were defending democracy. I remain convinced these people are malevolently evil and demonic.


2 posted on 02/27/2026 6:07:35 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: Twotone

The people around Biden certainly everything about the raid on Mar-a-Lago, in Biden’s defense his mind was so far gone, he could credibly say he knew nothing about the raid, and you could believe it.


3 posted on 02/27/2026 6:09:31 AM PST by srmanuel
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To: Twotone

Biden lied. He lied about not having pre-warning. He lied about the White House attorneys not being involved. He ignored or refused to hear anything from the FBI agents involved. He lied about the ‘documents’ which he reclassified that Trump had declassified in regards to the Obama and Joe Biden political spying.

To me, even if Trump had classified information he was entitled to it, and he decides what is declassified and what is not. If the National Achieves wanted the records, they shouldn’t have had them dumped his records in a parking lot.

The entire escapade was a political hack to ‘get Trump’. 10 fired FBI employees, one head of the National Achieves removed isn’t enough. The total disregard for the ‘politization and weaponization’ by Obama and Biden by government employees shouldn’t be tolerated at all, and it will happen again. IMHO they need to start hanging people, really, right on Television who use their government positions in Justice or Intelligence for political gain.


4 posted on 02/27/2026 6:10:22 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: Obadiah

They are, in the very real sense.


5 posted on 02/27/2026 6:12:10 AM PST by Skwor
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To: Obadiah
I remain convinced these people are malevolently evil and demonic.

Gee, why would you believe that?

6 posted on 02/27/2026 6:20:41 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets ( Thorough planning and careful preparation is no substitute for wishful thinking. )
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To: Twotone

Makes Watergate look like absolutely nothing. And the MSM ignores it.


7 posted on 02/27/2026 6:24:46 AM PST by montag813
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To: Twotone

Probably less than 5% of the public sway from party to party anymore.


8 posted on 02/27/2026 6:29:43 AM PST by CodeToad
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To: Twotone

“””saying he didn’t “give a damn about the optics.” “””

Of course they weren’t. Everyone thought there was absolutely no way Trump would ever be able to gain office again and they felt invincible. They knew the “news” media would cover for them.

Imagine the heart attacks on election night. OOPS!!!!!


9 posted on 02/27/2026 6:32:11 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Twotone
- undercut Biden’s claim that he had no prior knowledge of the FBI raid -

To borrow a line from the character Janice on the TV show Friends, "He knew it, he just didn't know he knew it".

10 posted on 02/27/2026 6:38:39 AM PST by ken in texas
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To: Twotone
Merrick Garland Garfinkel is corrupt, go figure.
11 posted on 02/27/2026 6:45:01 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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To: Twotone

So it was the “elderly pedophile”, Pedo Joe who told them to check Malenia’s underwear dresser?


12 posted on 02/27/2026 6:55:57 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Supreme Court Sucks. Time for the old dinosaur to go along with the U.N. and NATO.)
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To: Pete Dovgan
10 fired FBI employees, one head of the National Achieves removed isn’t enough.

All of them should be sitting in a prison cell, being thankful they're not hanged for treason.

13 posted on 02/27/2026 6:59:58 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Sociopaths.


14 posted on 02/27/2026 7:15:37 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Obadiah

Too bad we don’t have am AG


15 posted on 02/27/2026 7:28:46 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Twotone

Who do they consider “Biden”?

I don’t doubt at all that Joe had no idea about this.

EC


16 posted on 02/27/2026 7:31:23 AM PST by Ex-Con777 ("Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving." ~ David Burg)
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To: gibsonguy

I’m probably completely naive, but I’m hope after the mid-terms the arrests start rolling out. Probably dreaming, though.


17 posted on 02/27/2026 7:45:54 AM PST by Obadiah
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To: Twotone

Attempted murder.


18 posted on 02/27/2026 8:18:05 AM PST by cowboyusa
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To: Twotone

Yeah whatever. Patel fires 10 whole FBI aholes instead of prosecuting them and Blondi looks in a mirror and they call it justice.


19 posted on 02/27/2026 8:29:06 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: Pete Dovgan

It’s part of the Left’s permanent progressive power plan.


20 posted on 02/27/2026 8:37:59 AM PST by WhiteHatBobby0701
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