Biden's 'weaponized' Mar-a-Lago raid slammed by White House as declassified docs reveal FBI's legal doubts

Documents declassified by President Donald Trump on Monday show that FBI agents who worked the Mar-a-Lago investigation doubted the case for a search and felt shut out by Justice Department leadership before the 2022 raid. The White House responded Tuesday by accusing the Biden administration of turning law enforcement against political opponents and demanding that those responsible face consequences, according to Fox News.

Internal emails from the FBI's Washington Field Office describe agents growing frustrated that the Justice Department, then headed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, did not answer their requests and would not weigh alternatives to searching Trump's Palm Beach, Florida, estate. Fox News Digital reported in December that the messages indicate the bureau did not think it had probable cause for a warrant.

A May 24, 2022, email from the office's special agent in charge of counterintelligence laid out a schedule that ended with a search on June 6. The agent added that obtaining the records some other way, with no search warrant, would be preferable. Emails from June 1 and 2 show agents hunting for a way out of the path toward a raid. The search ultimately took place on Aug. 8, 2022.

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