Newly released internal emails from Congress reveal that FBI officials privately questioned whether there was sufficient probable cause to justify the raid on President Donald Trump’s Mar a Lago residence.
Despite these serious doubts, the operation moved forward. This was amid sustained pressure from senior officials at the Biden Department of Justice.
Court documents also said, “Personally authorized by Attorney General Garland, and supported over FBI objections by DOJ leadership who did not ‘give a damn about the optics’ of these unprecedented steps, the raid of Mar-a-Lago was unconstitutional.”
“On August 8, 2022, armed FBI agents stormed the private residence of a former president of the United States,” later court documents revealed. “What was unthinkable with respect to President Clinton’s recordings, and deemed unwarranted with respect to Hillary Clinton’s destruction of evidence, was determined to be appropriate by the Biden Administration for President Biden’s chief political rival.”
While most in mainstream media downplay this news, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt counters:
According to internal correspondence now coming to light, FBI personnel involved in the case repeatedly raised substantial concerns. These concerns were raised in the weeks before the August 2022 raid. They felt that the legal threshold for such an unprecedented action had not been met.
The emails show agents explicitly stating that they did not believe probable cause had been established. They also warned that the evidentiary record had not materially changed since earlier stages of the investigation.
According to an Aug. 4 email from an unidentified agent, then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General George Toscas said in a meeting that he “frankly doesn’t give a damn about the optics” of the search warrant. This was despite concerns of FBI officials. They apparently desired to execute the warrant in “a professional, low key manner.”
“I understand that this request may not go well at DOJ, however, it is FBI serving and executing the search and it will be our personnel who will have to deal with the reaction to that first contact,” the email from the unidentified agent reads.
One FBI official wrote that absent a new witness, it was fair to question whether the bureau should proceed at all. The official also noted that fresh information showing classified materials were actively being mishandled was essential.
Another internal message from the Washington Field Office stated plainly that the FBI did not believe probable cause existed. They felt it was not established for a search warrant at the former president’s residence.
Despite these warnings, the emails show the Biden Justice Department continued to push forward.
DOJ leadership argued that probable cause existed. They heavily pressed the FBI to execute the search. Agents urged caution and recommended less intrusive steps.
Those recommendations were brushed aside and the questionable raid proceeded anyway.
The documents expose sharp internal friction between career FBI officials and DOJ prosecutors.
At least one senior DOJ official reportedly dismissed concerns about optics and public trust. This attitude signaled that fallout from raiding a former president’s home was not a consideration.
Speed and escalation appear to have taken priority over resolving legal doubts raised by investigators themselves.
These actions directly contradict repeated public claims by Biden administration officials. They had stated that the Mar a Lago raid was a routine and legally airtight action.
The internal record now shows that was not true as the FBI itself was divided, and serious reservations were documented in writing before agents were sent in.
The August 2022 raid was the first time in American history that federal law enforcement searched the home of a former president.
At the time, Americans were told it was unavoidable and fully justified.
These emails now show a very different reality that demands answers under oath.
If senior officials pressured investigators to move forward without probable cause, that is not a policy disagreement.
That is an abuse of power.
If political considerations drove a law enforcement action of this magnitude, accountability is not optional. It is required.
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It seems hopeful that soon they are going to REALLY wish they had listened to those doubts.
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Thank God that Garland is not on the Supreme Court. Why did he leave a lifetime appointment to a federal court to serve as Attorney General for 4 years? He is from Chicago and it shows.
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Thank God
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