by Frank Holmes, reporter
President Joe Biden has always said he had nothing to do with last summer’s unprecedented FBI raid on the home of former President Donald Trump, but newly uncovered documents reveal the Biden administration may have been stage managing the whole thing to set up a prosecution of Biden’s toughest challenger.
Stunning new information, uncovered through hours of investigation by a government watchdog, show the Biden administration not only coordinated the raid but also lied through its teeth to Congress about it — a possible criminal offense.
Before last summer, the FBI had never raided the home of a former president, or presidential candidate. That all changed on August 8, 2022, when FBI agents busted into Mar-a-Lago, the Florida mansion home of Trump and his family.
Agents reportedly turned cases upside down and rifled through First Lady Melania Trump’s underwear drawer before carting off boxes of documents allegedly containing classified information.
Joe Biden had no idea it was going to happen, his spokesperson, Karine Jean-Pierre, told reporters at the time. “No one at the White House was given a heads-up. That did not happen,” she said.
Biden learned about it from the media, she said. She wasn’t the only one who claimed ignorance.
Officials inside the Biden administration “were stunned by the development and learned of it from Twitter,” according to The New York Times.
But new records produced by a Freedom of Information Act request make that sound like a pile of lies.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which requested the records, told Congress it had “not been involved in the DOJ investigation” that followed. Instead, they said, their independent Office of Inspector General looked into it and arranged the whole thing.
But NARA literally had its hands all over the documents, according to reports obtained by the America First Legal Foundation, headed by former Trump official Stephen Miller.
NARA requested the records, then White House liaison John Laster went through them and sent 15 boxes to Biden’s FBI to review last August 23.
As it turns out, it wasn’t the Archives’ request in the first place: America First claims that the Biden Justice Department asked the president to run the Trump document request through the Archives.
The DOJ wanted its hands on the documents, possibly to set up Trump for the Biden investigation just as the 2024 presidential election season was to kick off.
“There appear to be substantial discrepancies between what the Archives has told Congress and what appears in its internal communications,” wrote the author of the America First FOIA request, Michael Ding. “Not only did the Archives apparently mislead Congress with respect to the Trump records, it seemingly violated the law in order to accommodate the partisan Biden White House.”
What’s more, Ding claimed the whole NARA request may have been illegal.
Federal law says former president should only be asked for documents if they’re necessary “for the conduct of current business” of the White House.
“Providing documents to the DOJ for purposes of a criminal investigation is not the ‘current business’ of the White House,” wrote Ding.
“The evidence is that the Biden White House and the Department of Justice coordinated to obtain the Trump records, and perhaps create a pretext for a law enforcement raid, by way of a ‘special access request,’” Ding he continued.
The latest Biden scandal couldn’t hit at a worse time for the embattled octagenarian Democrat, who’s widely despised by his party’s base.
The possible perjury trap comes s Republicans in Congress probe evidence of the Biden family influence-peddling business contained on Hunter Biden’s laptop and set up a whole subcommittee on the White House’s “weaponization of government” against conservatives.
It comes as California Governor Gavin Newsom is kicking his shadow campaign to replace Biden on the Democratic ticket into overdrive.
And it comes as Biden is trapped in his own scandal over misplacing classified documents which, as vice president, he arguably should never had taken home in the first place… much less put in a garage frequently visited by his wheeling-dealing, drug-abusing son.
One of the senior counsels at America First Legal, Reed D. Rubinstein, said the new evidence his team dredged up “further suggests that Biden officials in the Executive Office of the President and the Department of Justice unlawfully abused their power and then lied about it to the American people.”
Looking at the whole record, the Biden administration knows “no limits on its power to harass, intimidate, and silence its political opponents,” Rubinstein stated.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”