FBI agents worried that they did not have probable cause for the raid on President Donald Trump&#8217;s Palm Beach estate, Mar-a-Lago, but went ahead with it anyway under pressure from then-President Joe Biden&#8217;s Justice Department.
A <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-doubted-probable-cause-mar-a-lago-raid-pushed-forward-amid-pressure-from-biden-doj-emails-reveal">report</a> published Tuesday by Fox News Digital detailed a number of emails between the FBI and the DOJ regarding concerns that Trump had taken classified documents to his Florida home — and how to best resolve the situation — and the DOJ ignored the FBI agents assigned to the case who repeatedly suggested alternatives to an outright raid of the property.
&#8220;Very little has been developed related to who might be culpable for mishandling the documents,&#8221; one FBI official — identified as an assistant special agent in charge — wrote to Anthony Riedlinger, another FBI official. &#8220;From the interviews, [Washington Field Office] has gathered information suggesting that there may be additional boxes (presumably of the same type as were sent back to NARA in January) at Mar-a-Lago.&#8221;
The official added that while they were in the process of drafting a search warrant, there were &#8220;some concerns that the information is single source, has not been corroborated, and may be dated.&#8221;
&#8220;DOJ CES opines, however, that the SW’s meet the probable cause standard,&#8221; the official said, but went on to note that the WFO still had reservations and had suggested instead that they have a conversation with Trump&#8217;s attorneys, informing them that the FBI was moving on a search warrant in the hopes of encouraging cooperation rather than confrontation.
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&#8220;At a minimum, even if the former president’s attorney is correct and the documents were all declassified (or believed to be declassified), it can be reasonably argued that the documents remain sensitive and should be properly secured until the matter of classification is sorted out,&#8221; the official added, noting that they could still move forward with the search warrant process at the same time.
Weeks passed and then another email from an unnamed FBI agent stated, &#8220;We haven’t generated any new facts, but keep being given draft after draft after draft.&#8221;
The agent made it clear that the case was viewed as a nonstarter and an overall waste of time: &#8220;Absent a witness coming forward with recent information about classified on site, at what point is it fair to table this? It is time consuming for the team, and not productive if there are no new facts supporting PC (probable cause)?&#8221;
Yet another email stated that officials within the WFO did &#8220;not believe (and has articulated to DOJ CES), that we have established probable cause for the search warrant for classified records at Mar a Lago.&#8221;
Additionally, FBI officials asserted that plans for a raid should be set aside in favor of &#8220;alternative, less intrusive and likelier quicker options for resolution.&#8221;
&#8220;The FBI intends for the execution of the warrant to be handled in a professional, low key manner, and to be mindful of the optics of the search,&#8221; another agent wrote, noting that Deputy Assistant Attorney General George Toscas had said he &#8220;frankly doesn’t give a damn about the optics.&#8221;
&#8220;I understand that this request may not go well at DOJ, however, it is the FBI serving and executing the search and it will be our personnel who will have to deal with the reaction to that first contact,&#8221; the agent added.
The raid went ahead on August 8, 2022.
FBI Director Kash Patel <a href="https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/2000999942303998185">confirmed</a> the report in an X post on Tuesday, saying, &#8220;It’s true &#8211; we just turned over documents to Capitol Hill to be made public showing the FBI told DOJ they did not have probable cause for raiding President Trump’s home in Mar A Lago but DOJ “didn’t give a damn” and did it anyway.&#8221;

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War Secretary Pete Hegseth likely violated Pentagon regulations when he shared details about an attack on Houthi terrorists in Yemen, the Defense Department Inspector General said in a report provided to members of Congress on Tuesday evening.
The report, as <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagons-signalgate-review-finds-hegseth-violated-defense-department-regulations-d75b9c0a?st=BPaFpG">The Wall Street Journal</a> noted, also stated that Hegseth, as the War Secretary, can declassify any War Department information he chooses — meaning that although regulation states that Hegseth should not have shared sensitive information via the messaging app, Signal, his actions may not rise to the level of a violation of law.
The Inspector General&#8217;s review began in April after the contents of the Signal chat in question were made public by The Atlantic&#8217;s Jeffrey Goldberg, who was accidentally added to the group when his contact information was imported through a phone belonging to United Nations Ambassador <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/so-damn-dangerous-signal-chat-breach-linked-to-automated-suggestion-feature-on-iphone">Mike Waltz</a>, who, at the time, was serving as President Donald Trump&#8217;s National Security Adviser.
According to the report, Hegseth received classified information — from a classified message labeled SECRET/NOFORN — about the planned attack on Houthi terrorists from Gen. Erik Kurilla, the CentCom (U.S. Central Command) commander. He then sent some of that information, albeit without the classified designation, via the Signal chat.
Hegseth has explained that he made a command decision to share that information in the moment with the group in question. The Inspector General confirmed that Hegseth has the authority to declassify War Department information. Any further inquiry may end there.
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Several members of Congress who have already read the report have gone public with their reactions — including Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/war-department-reviewing-serious-allegations-against-sen-mark-kelly-after-dem-military-message">Mark Kelly</a> (D-AZ), who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mark-kelly-encourages-active-military-to-question-orders-in-real-time">made headlines</a> in recent weeks when he took part in a video that encouraged members of the United States military to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senator-doubles-down-on-insurrection-video-threatens-military-over-plan-to-go-after-kelly">question orders</a> in real time, insinuating that President Trump or War Secretary Hegseth either had or would give unlawful orders.
&#8220;They very clearly stated he should not be using his cellphone and putting … this kind of information on an unclassified system,&#8221; Kelly said.
Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) pushed back, noting that Democrats had been gunning for Hegseth since before his confirmation hearings and weren&#8217;t likely to stop any time soon.
&#8220;The arc of the story is that it’s just a never ending stream of efforts to undermine Pete Hegseth, right? The whole controversy. So they didn’t get him in the confirmation process? Make a big deal out of this,&#8221; he said, referring to the report as a &#8220;nothing burger before adding, &#8220;So it’s just an ongoing effort. I wouldn’t expect it to end with this, but I think again, the President has faith in Secretary Hegseth. I think he’s doing a great job, and it is what it is.&#8221;
The unclassified full report, which was delayed in part due to the recent government shutdown, is set to be released to the public on Thursday.

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Former National Security Adviser John Bolton surrendered to authorities on Friday morning for his arraignment and pleaded not guilty to the 18 federal charges he faces related to his handling of classified documents.
Bolton made his first court appearance in Greenbelt, Maryland, before Judge Timothy Sullivan. After pleading not guilty, Bolton is set to be released and is not required to post bail. He is due back in court on November 21, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/john-bolton-indictment-10-17-25?t=1760714486711">reported</a>. Bolton is allowed to travel domestically, but he will be required to hand over his passport and travel documents to his lawyer. If he wants to travel internationally, he will have to seek approval from the court.
While Judge Sullivan oversaw Bolton&#8217;s federal arraignment on Friday, U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang — an Obama appointee — has been assigned the case going forward, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/john-bolton-indictment-10-17-25?t=1760714486711'">reported</a>.
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Bolton, who advised President Donald Trump during his first term, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-bolton-indicted-after-classified-documents-probe-report?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=John+Bolton+Indicted+After+Classified+Documents+Probe%3A+Report">indicted</a> by a grand jury on Thursday and is accused of sending classified information to unauthorized recipients through his personal email, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/john-bolton-indicted-criminal-charges-classified-documents-00612387">violating</a> provisions in the Espionage Act. In August, the FBI raided the former national security adviser&#8217;s home in Maryland, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/court-records-reveal-what-was-taken-from-john-boltons-home-during-fbi-raid?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Court+Records+Reveal+What+Was+Taken+From+John+Bolton%E2%80%99s+Home+During+FBI+Raid">taking</a> troves of documents, three computers, and two iPhones amid the Justice Department&#8217;s investigation into his handling of classified material.
President Trump <a href="https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1978923040785256497">said</a> on Thursday that he was not aware that Bolton had been indicted, but added, &#8220;I think he&#8217;s a bad person.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s too bad, but that&#8217;s the way it goes,&#8221; Trump told reporters.
In a statement on Thursday, Bolton said that he was being targeted in a political prosecution.
“For four decades, I have devoted my life to America’s foreign policy and national security. I would never compromise those goals. I tried to do that during my tenure in the first Trump administration but resigned when it became impossible to do so,” said Bolton.
“Now, I have become the latest target in weaponizing the Justice Department to charge those he deems to be his enemies with charges that were declined before or distort the facts,” he added.
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In 2023, Trump was also charged with crimes related to his handling of classified documents after leaving office. That case was dismissed a year later after Trump-nominated District Court Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith violated the Constitution.
Bolton is accused of sending &#8220;diary-like entries&#8221; to two people &#8220;that contained information classified&#8221; as &#8220;TOP SECRET.&#8221; The two people to whom Bolton allegedly sent the classified information were his wife and daughter, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/john-bolton-indictment-10-16-25">reported</a>.
&#8220;BOLTON wrote many of these diary-like entries by transcribing his handwritten notes from his day&#8217;s activities into word processing documents, which he then electronically sent to Individuals 1 and 2 through a commercial non-governmental messaging application,&#8221; the <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.592875/gov.uscourts.mdd.592875.1.0_3.pdf">indictment</a> reads.
&#8220;On other occasions, BOLTON used his personal non-governmental email accounts, such as email accounts hosted by AOL and Google, to email information classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI level to Individuals 1 and/or 2 at their personal email accounts,&#8221; the indictment adds. &#8220;At no point did BOLTON have authorization to store or transmit the classified information that he sent to Individuals 1 and 2 via his personal electronic devices and accounts. Nor did, at any time, Individuals 1 or 2 have authorization to know or store the classified information that BOLTON gave to them.&#8221;
The investigation into Bolton&#8217;s handling of classified documents gained momentum under the Biden administration and continued after President Trump took office for a second time in January, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/16/us/trump-shutdown-news#:~:text=SKIP%20ADVERTISEMENT-,Former%20Trump%20Aide%20John%20Bolton%20Is%20Indicted%20Over%20Handling%20of,2025%2C%207:41%20a.m.%20ET">reported</a>.
After serving under Trump from 2018 to 2019, Bolton became a harsh critic of the president and authored a book on his experience less than a year after Trump said he fired Bolton as National Security Adviser. Trump said that he terminated Bolton, but Bolton has insisted that he resigned from his position.
The book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,” was promoted as “the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration.” The Trump administration argued that Bolton’s book endangered national security. After a back-and-forth, Bolton removed classified information from his book manuscript before he published it, according to court records.

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ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl conceded that he did not know what evidence the FBI might have had prior to executing a raid on the home and office of John Bolton, who had previously served as President Donald Trump&#8217;s National Security Adviser — but then proceeded to paint the law enforcement action as an act of &#8220;retribution&#8221; on Trump&#8217;s part.
&#8220;We don’t know what evidence the DOJ has against John Bolton. But we do know that he is the latest Trump critic to be targeted by his administration,&#8221; Karl said of Friday&#8217;s events.
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&#8220;We don’t know what evidence the DOJ has against John Bolton. But we do know that he is the latest Trump critic to be targeted by his administration.” <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonKarl</a> reports on President Trump&#8217;s promised &#8220;retribution&#8221; against political enemies. <a href="https://t.co/x5qomsiCQa">https://t.co/x5qomsiCQa</a> <a href="https://t.co/JWICYLBK0i">pic.twitter.com/JWICYLBK0i</a>
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&#8220;In a minute, we&#8217;ll get to the stunning developments coming into the weekend with FBI agents swarming around the home and office of former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton, but first the context,&#8221; Karl said. &#8220;This didn&#8217;t happen in a vacuum.&#8221;
&#8220;John Bolton is on a long list of Trump critics who are not facing the wrath of President Trump and his Justice Department,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Trump himself has suggested that dozens of his enemies, real and perceived, belong in prison.&#8221;
Karl went on to list a number of people Trump has said should go to prison — many of whom were named in recent documents pertaining to the Russian collusion hoax — such as former President Barack Obama and former FBI Director James Comey.
He also mentioned Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Attorney General Letitia James (D-NY), both of whom are already being investigated by DOJ attorney Ed Martin, and claimed that those investigations were also retaliatory efforts on behalf of President Trump.
Karl then complained that an outsized percentage of the high-ranking military officers who had been fired under the Trump administration had been women — a move that he said left the military without even one female active duty four-star general — but made no effort to explain why that was necessarily a bad thing.
&#8220;President Trump promised retribution against his political enemies,&#8221; Karl declared. &#8220;And there is no doubt that he is serious about keeping that promise.&#8221;
Karl then pivoted to the raid on Bolton&#8217;s home — which, according to the Justice Department, was part of an investigation into Bolton&#8217;s handling of classified information — and repeatedly suggested that it was simply more evidence that Trump was attacking and punishing his political enemies.

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The FBI raided the Maryland home of former National Security Adviser John Bolton on Friday morning as part of a national security investigation involving classified information. 
The New York Post, which first <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/08/22/us-news/patels-fbi-raids-john-boltons-home-in-high-profile-national-security-probe/">reported</a> the raid, said that it was conducted as part of a “high-profile national security probe.” FBI agents began the search around 7:00 am at Bolton’s Bethesda home, the Post reported. 
“NO ONE is above the law…<a href="https://x.com/FBI"> @FBI</a> agents on mission,” FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X as the raid began. 
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NO ONE is above the law… <a href="https://twitter.com/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBI</a> agents on mission
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Commenting on FBI Director Kash Patel&#8217;s social media post shortly after the news broke that said &#8220;NO ONE is above the law,&#8221; FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said &#8220;Public corruption will not be tolerated,&#8221; and Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote, &#8220;America’s safety isn’t negotiable. Justice will be pursued. Always.&#8221;
Fox News reported that FBI agents were also seen removing boxes out of Bolton&#8217;s office in Washington, D.C.
When asked about the raid, the FBI told NBC News that it was &#8220;conducting court authorized activity in the area. There is no threat to public safety.&#8221;
The Post also reported that an official said that a previous investigation into Bolton had been quashed “for political reasons.” 
President Donald Trump said Friday morning that he did not know about the raid until he saw the news.
&#8220;I saw it on television this morning. I&#8217;m not a fan of John Bolton. He&#8217;s a real&#8230;lowlife,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;He&#8217;s not a smart guy. But he could be a very unpatriotic guy&#8230;we&#8217;re going find out. I know nothing about it.&#8221;
Bolton served in the first Trump administration from April 2018 until September 2019. After Bolton left the White House, he became a frequent critic of Trump. Bolton was previously the ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush. 
In 2020, he published a book called “The Room Where it Happened” that the Trump administration argued endangered national security. Trump’s Justice Department sued to block its publication and distribution, but that lawsuit was ultimately dismissed after Joe Biden became president in 2021. 
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The book was cited as one of the reasons for the Trump administration to yank Bolton’s security clearance earlier this year. 
“The book was rife with sensitive information drawn from his time in government,” the White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/holding-former-government-officials-accountablefor-election-interference-and-improper-disclosure-of-sensitive-governmental-information/">said</a>. “The memoir’s reckless treatment of sensitive information undermined the ability of future presidents to request and obtain candid advice on matters of national security from their staff.  Publication also created a grave risk that classified material was publicly exposed.”
Trump also moved to pull the Secret Service security detail that was assigned to protect Bolton shortly after he took office in January 2025. Last week, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/he-really-really-hates-the-president-ex-trump-chief-of-staff-unloads-on-john-bolton">slammed</a> Bolton as &#8220;dumb&#8221; in a Truth Social post written in response to criticism over his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. 
CNN reported that Bolton was not home at the time of the raid.

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Senator Adam Schiff was the point person as Democrats strategically leaked classified information aimed at damaging President Donald Trump during his first term in the White House, journalist Catherine Herridge reported on Wednesday.
Herridge cited an FBI report from 2017, recently declassified via current FBI Director Kash Patel, and said that while the name of the person being interviewed was redacted, it appeared to be someone who sat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
&#8220;According to the FBI report known as a ‘302,’ (name redacted) &#8216;noted Swalwell has been the source of a lot of leaked information and had to be counseled to be more careful,'&#8221; Herridge posted on Tuesday, shortly after obtaining the 266 pages of newly-declassified material.
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NEW I have obtained a newly declassified <a href="https://twitter.com/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBI</a> interview summary from 2017 about intelligence leaks from the Russia probes.
While the interview subject’s name is withheld, it appears to be a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
According to the FBI… <a href="https://t.co/oGPCXzXtdn">pic.twitter.com/oGPCXzXtdn</a>
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Early on Wednesday, Herridge added that she&#8217;d reached out to Swalwell for comment and he&#8217;d posted his denials via X.
&#8220;This &#8216;whistleblower&#8217; made this bulls*** up when Trump was President. If they had anything, they would have indicted me. Trump would have done anything to destroy me if he could have. They didn’t indict me. Therefore, they had nothing. What’s next?&#8221; he said.
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This “whistleblower” made this bullshit up when Trump was President. If they had anything, they would have indicted me. Trump would have done anything to destroy me if he could have. They didn’t indict me. Therefore, they had nothing. What’s next? <a href="https://t.co/9LzMIduhra">https://t.co/9LzMIduhra</a>
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1955632944468647971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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But Herridge had more to add — also discovered in the declassified 2017 report was the claim that the leaking of classified information had not been &#8220;a one time thing&#8221; so much as a &#8220;systematic process&#8221; — and that Schiff, who at the time was the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, was the linchpin that held the entire operation together.
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&#8220;Notes would be run up to the ranking member, ADAM SCHIFF, after which a decision was made as to who would leak the information,&#8221; an unnamed FBI agent reportedly said after speaking with a GOP House Intelligence Committee staffer.
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The October 2017 FBI report alleges leaking by democrats on the House Intelligence Committee was “not a one-time thing,” there was a “systematic process.”
“&#8230;notes would be run up to the ranking member, ADAM SCHIFF,… <a href="https://t.co/hpEqgzVfAf">https://t.co/hpEqgzVfAf</a> <a href="https://t.co/0XKTETk0aL">pic.twitter.com/0XKTETk0aL</a>
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Schiff, according to Herridge, responded by calling the claims &#8220;absolutely and categorically false.&#8221;
He also lashed out at President Trump, attempting to shift the attention to the president and any still unreleased files pertaining to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump responded to the FBI report early on Wednesday, saying, &#8220;Just out, irrefutable proof that Adam Shifty Schiff &#8216;APPROVED PLAN TO LEAK CLASSIFIED INFORMATION TO DAMAGE DONALD TRUMP.'&#8221;
Schiff protested via X: &#8220;Sorry, Donald. Wrong again. Even Barr’s Justice Department rejected that false smear years ago. But while we are the subject of confidential information, how about releasing those Epstein files? We are still waiting &#8230;&#8221;
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Sorry, Donald. Wrong again.
Even Barr’s Justice Department rejected that false smear years ago.
But while we are the subject of confidential information, how about releasing those Epstein files? We are still waiting… <a href="https://t.co/KJ3XAWrDzW">pic.twitter.com/KJ3XAWrDzW</a>
— Adam Schiff (@SenAdamSchiff) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenAdamSchiff/status/1955690538012725316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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President Joe Biden claimed on Sunday that he had run a campaign free from scandal and critics were quick to point out the errors in that particular statement.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve run a campaign that&#8217;s basically scandal free. That&#8217;s hard to do in American politics these days,&#8221; Biden said.
Biden made the comments during the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s holiday reception in Washington, D.C. — where he also weighed in on the possible political future of Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-tells-kamala-youre-not-going-anywhere-kid-amid-speculation-about-vps-future">Kamala Harris</a>.
The Trump War Room&#8217;s Jacob Schneider posted a brief clip from the event along with a caption that read, &#8220;BIDEN: &#8216;We&#8217;ve run a campaign that&#8217;s basically scandal free. That&#8217;s hard to do in American politics.&#8217; (Except covering up his obvious cognitive decline, peddling his family&#8217;s influence, hiding classified documents, etc etc etc).&#8221;
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🚨 BIDEN: &quot;We&#39;ve run a campaign that&#39;s basically scandal free. That&#39;s hard to do in American politics.&quot;
(Except covering up his obvious cognitive decline, peddling his family&#39;s influence, hiding classified documents, etc etc etc) <a href="https://t.co/ey4gGYG8W8">pic.twitter.com/ey4gGYG8W8</a>
&mdash; Jake Schneider (@jacobkschneider) <a href="https://twitter.com/jacobkschneider/status/1868440728826982869?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Critics pushed back on Biden&#8217;s claim, laying out a few details that they thought he must have missed when making his assessment.
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&#8220;Does Joe Biden not know what year it is?&#8221; Steve Guest asked, adding, &#8220;He’s cooked if he thinks this.&#8221;
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Does Joe Biden not know what year it is? <a href="https://t.co/L6O0Eu648R">https://t.co/L6O0Eu648R</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1868443373042094376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Sure, but only if we don&#8217;t include &#8211; Afghanistan Withdrawal &#8211; Illegal alien invasion &#8211; Being caught with classified docs &#8211; Cocaine in the White House &#8211; Chinese Spy Balloon &#8211; Medical Emergency forcing him out of the race &#8211; Lying about pardoning Hunter,&#8221; Shawn Farash posted in response.
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Sure, but only if we don&#39;t include 
&#8211; Afghanistan Withdrawal &#8211; Illegal alien invasion &#8211; Being caught with classified docs &#8211; Cocaine in the White House &#8211; Chinese Spy Balloon &#8211; Medical Emergency forcing him out of the race &#8211; Lying about pardoning Hunter
&mdash; Shawn Farash (@Shawn_Farash) <a href="https://twitter.com/Shawn_Farash/status/1868480597620043819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;So he won?&#8221; Stephen L. Miller added.
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So he won? <a href="https://t.co/PfNBW5XMvQ">https://t.co/PfNBW5XMvQ</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1868452723177480296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Joe Biden says his entire campaign was &#8216;scandal free,'&#8221; another posted, adding, &#8220;Who wants to tell him?&#8221;
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Joe Biden says his entire campaign was “scandal free”
Who wants to tell him? <a href="https://t.co/1QtgSZpUrI">https://t.co/1QtgSZpUrI</a>
&mdash; KᗴᒪᒪᗴY ✰ (@Patriotmom717) <a href="https://twitter.com/Patriotmom717/status/1868445219370209554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Biden raised eyebrows just last week when, just days after issuing a sweeping pardon to his embattled son Hunter Biden, he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-announces-mass-commutations-after-criticism-over-hunter-pardon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commuted some 1500 sentences</a> in one day.
As The Daily Wire previously reported:
<blockquote>In addition to those granted clemency, Biden said he was also pardoning 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes, including drug offenses. In total, the White House said that Biden’s actions “represent the largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history.”</blockquote>
Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.

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On Wednesday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, fired off a letter to the Biden Department of Justice demanding the Office of Professional Responsibility provide critical information about the operations of Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team’s efforts to prosecute Donald Trump.
Smith had charged Trump with trying to subvert the 2020 presidential election in one case and mishandling classified documents in another.
“The information that you have provided only reinforces our concerns that OPR acts more to protect Department prosecutors than to root out prosecutorial misconduct,” Jordan wrote to Jeffrey Ragsdale, the counsel for OPR. “While we appreciate you confirming an open investigation into Jack Smith&#8217;s prosecutors, we are concerned that your refusal to take prompt investigative steps will allow these attorneys to evade internal accountability by leaving the Department.”
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Jordan referred to a letter the Committee wrote in May in which they asked for “documents related to OPR&#8217;s investigations into allegations that Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team lied to a federal court, manipulated evidence seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during its raid of Mar-a-Lago, and improperly pressured a lawyer representing a defendant indicted by Smith.”
The Committee followed up with another letter in August regarding professional misconduct regarding another member of Smith&#8217;s team, J.P. Cooney. After receiving no response, the Committee asked Ragsdale to make himself available to the Committee in September and followed up with another request in October regarding all their requests.
On November 19, Ragsdale told the Committee that OPR had opened an investigation into Smith&#8217;s office in June 2023, but OPR did not conduct an “inquiry” or “investigation” into the allegations because it could “interfer[e] with” and “jeopardize” the prosecution, Jordan wrote.
“As you explained it, the Department&#8217;s policy would keep bad-actor attorneys in place to continue prosecutorial misconduct because of the administrative difficulty and resource constraints involved in switching attorneys,” Jordan wrote. “This excuse not only defies common sense, but it seems to violate the Department&#8217;s mission to ensure that justice is done in every case.”
After Trump was elected, Smith revealed that his team was “making moves to wind down the two criminal cases.&#8221;
“Smith then gave your office permission to investigate the allegations of attorney misconduct by Smith&#8217;s office. You stated that Smith only allowed the investigation to begin because it would now no longer ‘interfere with the Special Counsel&#8217;s investigation and prosecution,’” Jordan noted.
“It is absurd that OPR &#8211; the Department entity charged with upholding ethical conduct &#8211; would only examine allegations of prosecutorial misconduct after the subject of the allegations has approved the inquiry,” he declared.
“Your continued failure to cooperate with our oversight and apparent intention to hide information from the Committee is more evidence that OPR operates to protect Department attorneys from independent accountability,” Jordan asserted. “This letter serves as a formal request to preserve all existing and future records and materials related to OPR&#8217;s investigation into Special Counsel Smith and members of his prosecution team. Your office should construe this preservation notice as an instruction to take all reasonable steps to prevent the destruction or alteration, whether intentionally or negligently, of all documents, communications, and other information, including electronic information and metadata, that are or may be responsive to this congressional inquiry.”
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: DOJ briefed the Committee on prosecutorial misconduct by Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team. 
Chairman <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Jim_Jordan</a> demands the DOJ produce the requested documents and information. <a href="https://t.co/FIpwnZVARg">pic.twitter.com/FIpwnZVARg</a>
&mdash; House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1864471137981272344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In late November, a judge rejected Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request that Smith preserve his records. In his request, Paxton <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.396773/gov.uscourts.txnd.396773.1.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> that he “fears that many releasable records &#8230; will never see daylight. That is not because DOJ has any legal reason to withhold them. Rather, Attorney General Paxton has a well-founded belief as set forth herein that Defendants will simply destroy the records. That is how they and/or their predecessors have operated in the recent past. And Jack Smith’s team has conducted itself in multiple ways that suggest it cannot be blindly trusted to preserve, and eventually produce, all of its records.”

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Former first lady <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/melania-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melania Trump</a> lit up the Federal Bureau of Investigation — in a video promo for her eponymous memoir due out in early October — saying that the raid on Mar-a-Lago should stand as a reminder to all Americans that their rights and liberties were worth protecting.
The video began with an image of the United States Constitution and the full text of the Fourth Amendment: &#8220;The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.&#8221;
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— MELANIA TRUMP (@MELANIATRUMP) <a href="https://twitter.com/MELANIATRUMP/status/1834937662207103146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The former first lady then appeared on the screen, saying, &#8220;I never imagined my privacy would be invaded by the government here in America. The FBI raided my home in Florida and searched through my personal belongings.”
&#8220;This is not just my story, it serves as a warning to all Americans, a reminder that our freedom and rights must be respected,&#8221; she said.
Melania Trump has released a series of videos promoting her memoir, due out on October 8, including one that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-to-this-story-melania-questions-silence-around-trump-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raised questions</a> about what really happened on the day that her husband, former President Donald Trump, was shot at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Two others were injured that day, and firefighter Corey Comperatore was shot and killed while protecting the lives of his family — and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-even-secret-service-sen-josh-hawley-says-trump-rally-security-was-unprepared-and-inexperienced-dhs-personnel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">every indication</a> thus far is that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/apocalyptic-security-failure-dan-bongino-goes-off-on-secret-service" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United States Secret Service</a> is responsible for a number of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-senator-blumenthal-public-to-be-shocked-by-secret-services-failure-to-protect-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">security failures</a> that day.
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&#8220;The attempt to end my husband’s life was a horrible, distressing experience,” <a href="https://x.com/MELANIATRUMP/status/1833476085998063741" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Melania Trump, appearing on camera. “Now, the silence around it feels heavy. I can’t help but wonder why didn’t law enforcement officials arrest the shooter before the speech? There is definitely more to this story. And we need to uncover the truth.&#8221;
Another recent video focused on her relationship with her 18-year-old son, Barron, and all the joys and struggles that come with being a mother.
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— MELANIA TRUMP (@MELANIATRUMP) <a href="https://twitter.com/MELANIATRUMP/status/1834201664493891702?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee sued Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a> on Monday, requesting that a judge order the audio of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur be released. 
Earlier this year, the Biden administration asserted executive privilege to block release of the audio of the two-day interview in which Hur pressed the president over his handling of classified documents. The <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Audio%20subpoena%20as-filed%20complaint.pdf?_gl=1*hemqeb*_ga*MTQ5OTU4ODcxNS4xNzE5NDk1MzEz*_ga_1818ZEQW81*MTcxOTg1OTIzMi4xLjEuMTcxOTg1OTIzNC4wLjAuMA.." target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> from the Judiciary Committee says Biden&#8217;s assertion of executive privilege is “frivolous” and the audio of the interviews is important for lawmaker’s inquiry into the Justice Department’s handling of the Biden documents investigation. 
“The Committee thus needs those recordings to assess the Special Counsel’s characterization of the President, which he and White House lawyers have forcefully disputed, and ultimate recommendation that President Biden should not be prosecuted,” the suit says.
Hur recommended no charges for Biden despite the fact he found Biden improperly retained classified documents while out of office, noting his team found that Biden struggled to remember the dates his son died or when he was vice president. 
A jury would view Biden, who is now 81, as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,&#8221; Hur&#8217;s report <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/special-counsel-biden-has-significantly-limited-memory-didnt-remember-when-he-was-vp-or-when-son-died" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concluded</a>.
The House Judiciary Committee suit asks the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to overrule the assertion of executive privilege and make Garland produce the tapes. House lawmakers say the audio will provide important verbal and nonverbal context missing from the transcripts of the interview that have been made available. 
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&#8220;That verbal and nonverbal context is quite important here because the Special Counsel relied on the way that President Biden presented himself during their interview — ’as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory’ — when ultimately recommending that President Biden should not be prosecuted for unlawfully retaining and disclosing classified information,&#8221; the suit says.
&#8220;The audio recordings, not the cold transcripts, are the best available evidence of how President Biden presented himself during the interview,” the suit adds. 
House Republicans previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-votes-to-hold-garland-in-contempt-for-withholding-biden-docs-case-audio#:~:text=The%20GOP%2Dled%20House%20passed,by%20special%20counsel%20Robert%20Hur." target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> to hold Garland in contempt over the tapes, but the DOJ declined to prosecute.

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The ghostwriter of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> memoir told federal investigators that he deleted audio recordings of his interview with Biden after learning that a special counsel was appointed by the U.S. Department of Justice to launch a criminal investigation into Biden&#8217;s handling of classified information.
Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/06/14/biden-ghostwriter-deleted-recordings-special-counsel-documents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that writer Mark Zwonitzer told federal authorities that he deleted the recordings after Special Counsel Robert Hur was appointed to investigate Biden because he feared the recordings getting out into the public domain.
&#8220;I was very concerned about the possibility of being hacked,&#8221; he claimed, according to a partial transcript of his interview with investigators. &#8220;I was very concerned about the possibility of this audio spread all over the place.&#8221;
He said that he saved the transcripts of what Biden allegedly said and that deleting audio recordings was &#8220;something &#8230; I do as a &#8230; rule anyway.&#8221;
The Wall Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/merrick-garland-special-counsel-justice-department-under-fire-4608467b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> earlier this month that Attorney General Merrick Garland was stunned when he learned about Biden&#8217;s conduct during the interview, that the then-vice president admitted on a recording to having classified material in his house and was discussing that material with someone who was not authorized to receive it.
According to the transcript, investigators said to Zwonitzer that the average outside observer is going to look at what he did and conclude that his actions were spurred by wanting to protect Biden from investigators.
&#8220;And I assume — and it&#8217;s okay, I just need the truth on this one, but there&#8217;s some truth in that, that was what was going on,&#8221; investigators said. &#8220;That was part of your motivation, at least something you were aware of when you did this?&#8221;&#8221;
Zwonitzer responded: &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to say how much of the percentage it was of my motivation. I was aware that there was an investigation.&#8221;
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He claimed that no one connected to the president reached out to him.
Hur decided not to prosecute Zwonitzer because they believed that he &#8220;offered plausible, innocent reasons for why he deleted the recordings.&#8221;
&#8220;Zwonitzer willingly provided significant cooperation to the investigation without seeking or receiving any protections or assurances,&#8221; Hur added. &#8220;He was forthright in describing his conduct and working with investigators to obtain all relevant evidence in his possession.&#8221;
One of the reasons Hur declined to prosecute Biden was the president&#8217;s mental fitness, or lack thereof.
“Mr. Biden’s memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017 [with whom he shared classified materials], and in his interview with our office in 2023,” the report said in its executive summary. “We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Prosecutors said that based on the way that Biden presents, jurors will “want to identify reasonable doubt” and that it would be “difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”

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On Tuesday, special counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jack-smith" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jack Smith</a>&#8216;s bid for a gag order against former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> in his classified documents case got rejected by the presiding federal judge in Florida.
Federal prosecutors&#8217; attempt to confer with Trump&#8217;s counsel before filing the request was &#8220;wholly lacking in substance and professional courtesy,&#8221; Judge Aileen Cannon <a href="https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1795475610216595910" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote in a paperless order</a>.
Cannon said the request was denied without prejudice, meaning Smith could try again, but she warned a failure to provide adequate time for discussion between the parties may result in sanctions.
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Smith&#8217;s team sought the gag order last Friday after Trump <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-classified-documents-case-prosecutors-bar-law-enforcement-statements-danger/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> FBI agents were &#8220;authorized to shoot me&#8221; and were &#8220;locked &amp; loaded ready to take me out &amp; put my family in danger.&#8221;
The former president was responding to the revelation that the FBI was permitted to use <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-signed-off-on-use-of-deadly-force-for-raid-on-trump-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;deadly force&#8221;</a> in the 2022 raid on Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago estate, though the bureau <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-signed-off-on-use-of-deadly-force-for-raid-on-trump-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insists</a> it was following &#8220;standard protocol.&#8221;
Prosecutors said Trump&#8217;s statements &#8220;falsely&#8221; suggested law enforcement agents &#8220;were complicit in a plot to assassinate&#8221; the former president and exposed &#8220;agents, some of whom will be witnesses at trial, to the risk of threats, violence, and harassment.&#8221;
Smith&#8217;s team <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jack-smith-requests-gag-order-after-trump-says-fbi-agents-were-ready-to-take-me-out" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> the court to restrain Trump from making public declarations that pose a serious &#8220;danger&#8221; to agents participating in the case. In a footnote, prosecutors also noted Trump&#8217;s lawyers object to the motion as they &#8220;do not believe that there is any imminent danger.&#8221;
Trump is contending with a gag order in a separate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/appeals-court-denies-trumps-gag-order-challenge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York hush-money case</a>. He was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-hits-trump-with-fines-threatens-jail-time-over-gag-order" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fined</a> thousands of dollars last month after being found to be in violation of that order. A judge also implemented a gag order in Smith&#8217;s <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/08/trump-gag-order-jan-6-case-00130874" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020 election interference case</a> against the former president.
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Steven Cheung, Trump&#8217;s re-election campaign spokesman, reacted to Smith&#8217;s request for a gag order in the classified documents case by claiming that prosecutors were trying to meddle in the 2024 election.
&#8220;Hacks and Thugs are obsessed with trying to deprive President Trump and all American voters of their First Amendment rights,&#8221; Cheung <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/24/politics/trump-gag-order-trump-classified-documents/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Repeated attempts to silence President Trump during the presidential campaign are blatant attempts to interfere in the election.&#8221;
Trump has maintained his innocence in all of the charges he faces, including in a separate 2020 election interference case in Georgia. Just one of the four cases — the criminal matter in Manhattan — has gone to trial so far.
Judge Cannon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-indefinitely-postpones-trumps-classified-documents-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">postponed</a> the classified documents trial, which had been set for May 20, and has not selected a new date.

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