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New FBI Releases Show Radically Different Treatment of Trump, Hillary Clinton
FrontPage Magazine ^ | Dec 17 2025 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 12/17/2025 6:28:33 AM PST by texas booster

The Biden DOJ went ahead and conducted its banana republic raid of Mar-a-Lago in 2022 in order to keep Biden as the nominee. (A plan that ultimately failed.) The raid went ahead even though the FBI warned about a lack of probable cause.

The FBI did not believe agents had probable cause to raid President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022 — but former President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice approved the search anyway, according to newly released records.

An FBI official even noted that agents had spent six “counterproductive” weeks trying to establish they had grounds for a search warrant but they were eventually overruled by the DOJ, with one top official grouching that he “frankly [didn’t] give a damn about the optics.”

Note, and I cannot say this enough, but Biden and the media hated Attorney General Merrick Garland because they didn’t feel he had been aggressive enough in going after Trump. Every abuse we saw was still woefully insufficient for them. Had they gotten their dream AG, it would have been far worse.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2022; 202208; 7thfloor; danielgreenfield; doublestandards; fbi; greenfield; marakago; optics; r; sultanknish
Now contrast this with the previous kid gloves treatment of Hillary Clinton.

On July 20, 2016—111 days before the 2016 election—an agent with the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division ordered that, “based on the sensitivities surrounding the Clinton Foundation,” agents were prohibited from issuing subpoenas, conducting interviews or sharing information related to the case with other offices so as to avoid “[creating] any impression we are investigating the Clinton Foundation or the Clintons.”

In November 2016, FBI Headquarters, while under the leadership of then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, stepped in to block the Clinton Foundation investigative team from accessing potentially incriminating evidence located on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, the husband of Hillary Clinton’s political aide, Huma Abedin. McCabe, among others, recommended the information instead be routed to the FBI’s “Midyear” investigative team. ...

1 posted on 12/17/2025 6:28:33 AM PST by texas booster
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To: 100American; 21twelve; 2nd amendment mama; A Conservative Thinker; Absolutely Nobama; ...
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam and leftism.

There’s one set of rules at the DOJ. And if you don’t like those, we have another set.

A quick review of the double standards at the FBI and other government agencies. Which we have all known for ... what, 70 years?

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2 posted on 12/17/2025 6:30:59 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

Trump has endured a lot. Can’t imagine living a life for years and years, with the opposition trying to ruin him.
Every little thing is laced with hatred. How many lawfare?
How much opposition? Hollywood to Mainstream Media to Marxist Democrats?


3 posted on 12/17/2025 6:34:40 AM PST by FreedBird (E)
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To: texas booster

This proves Barack Obama was a king and dictator. Opponents were targeted at all times.


4 posted on 12/17/2025 6:41:30 AM PST by WhiteHatBobby0701
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To: texas booster

Trump doesn’t have a cleaner.


5 posted on 12/17/2025 6:56:04 AM PST by GingisK
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To: texas booster

Different Treatment of Trump, Hillary Clinton

It’s not just the democrats doing it the Bolshevik media protects it’s party covered with lies damned lies and WTF?.


6 posted on 12/17/2025 7:09:18 AM PST by Vaduz (?.)
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To: Vaduz

I have to wonder if Hillary ever returned the hundreds of FBI files she stole ? Of course the FBI says that the files had been returned and Hillary’s prints were not on them. 😂🙄😉🤔


7 posted on 12/17/2025 7:18:22 AM PST by OldHarbor
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To: OldHarbor

Or her 10,000 e-mails on a her server with government data?.

FIB knows nothing


8 posted on 12/17/2025 7:33:51 AM PST by Vaduz (?.)
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To: texas booster
...but former President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice approved the search anyway, according to newly released records.

A lawless land does not happen overnight. It fails in degrees of debasement. For example:

Stroke of the pen... Law of the land. Kind of cool.

Obama says change has come to America.

The President and the autopen

Democrats are good at debasement through change. I hear they are expected to resume a measure of control via the midterms.

With their record of successfully debasing our Nation I just don't seem how that could happen without a willful republican surrender starting about now.

9 posted on 12/17/2025 7:52:50 AM PST by MurrietaMadman (The Gates of hell shall not prevail against you)
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To: texas booster

‘….one top official grouching that he “frankly [didn’t] give a damn about the optics.”…’

Which one was that?


10 posted on 12/17/2025 7:58:57 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: MurrietaMadman

“Democrats are good at debasement through change.”

That’s Zero’s “fundamental transformation of America” in progress…..


11 posted on 12/17/2025 8:10:09 AM PST by Reddy (BO stinks)
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To: texas booster
Speaking of "kid gloves" and the FBI......

Just another "this is what I voted for". Notice he omits that he said "lock her up" and blames it on "they" (us).

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Trump falsely claims he never said 'Lock her up' about Hillary Clinton | USA TODAY


12 posted on 12/17/2025 8:37:22 AM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: texas booster

bump


13 posted on 12/17/2025 12:00:57 PM PST by Albion Wilde (To live free is the greatest gift; to die free is the greatest victory. —Erica Kirk)
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To: WhiteHatBobby0701
It proves that the political parties operate under different rules and ethics.

A philosophical dilemma.

14 posted on 12/17/2025 1:04:18 PM PST by oldbrowser ( don't listen to the peddlers)
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To: oldbrowser

Dems are bullies. Reps are willing victims.


15 posted on 12/17/2025 1:08:31 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: texas booster

So many people and agencies kept the teflon coating on the clintoonians from bubster’s reign and continued with the murderess of benghazi. It was so sickening to read and watch how these corrupt these two individuals got away with murder even down to their close associates. The clintoonian hit squad is still out there running free.


16 posted on 12/17/2025 3:33:25 PM PST by gildafarrell ("To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield!")
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