Explosive internal communications show FBI concerns over legal justification for the 2022 search of Trump’s Florida residence, as Jack Smith prepares for closed-door testimony.
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The FBI is preparing to turn over bombshell internal memos to Congress that reveal the agency warned the Biden Justice Department lacked probable cause to raid Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in August 2022, yet prosecutors proceeded with the operation anyway, according to Just the News.
The documents, expected to be handed over to the Senate and House Judiciary committees as early as Tuesday, come ahead of a closed-door deposition scheduled for Wednesday with former special prosecutor Jack Smith, who inherited the classified documents case after the controversial raid.
The memos indicate that the FBI’s Washington field office explicitly stated it “does not believe they established probable cause” before executing the search warrant at Trump’s Florida residence, according to a source with direct knowledge of the communications.
While rumors have long circulated that some FBI agents disagreed with the decision to raid Mar-a-Lago, the newly disclosed emails will provide specific evidence that the DOJ under President Joe Biden failed to meet the legal threshold for a search warrant—but moved forward regardless, officials said.
The raid became a political flashpoint in the lead-up to the 2024 election, resulting in two federal indictments against Trump that were later dismissed. Republicans have argued the prosecution was a politically motivated effort by a Democrat-led DOJ to influence the election.
The House Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), recently subpoenaed Smith to testify behind closed doors as part of its investigation into the federal prosecutions of Trump.
“The Committee on the Judiciary is continuing to conduct oversight of the operations of the Office of Special Counsel you led—specifically, your team’s prosecutions of President Donald J. Trump and his co-defendants,” Jordan wrote in the subpoena letter. “Due to your service as Special Counsel, the Committee believes that you possess information that is vital to its oversight of this matter.”
Peter Koski, an attorney for Smith, has indicated that the former special counsel will comply with the subpoena.
Meanwhile, House Democrats are pushing for the release of a classified version of Smith’s final report on his investigation, a move Trump’s legal team is fighting in court to block.
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