They Lied: Biden Admin Officials Were Involved in Mar-a-Lago Raid Despite Saying Otherwise

According to documents obtained by America First Legal through a Freedom of Information Act request, the Biden administration was involved in the raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. This contradicts earlier reports that its officials were not aware of the raid until they saw it on social media. “The evidence suggests that Biden officials unlawfully abused their power and then lied about it to the American people,” said Reed D. Rubinstein, senior counselor and director of oversight and investigations at America First Legal, in a social media post.

These new documents confirmed earlier reporting that the FBI obtained access to Trump records through a “special access request” from the Biden White House. The records also show that John Laster, “the Archives’ official responsible for administering all access requests for Presidential records,” was involved in the request, despite the Archives’ previously claiming it had “not been involved in the DOJ investigation.”

According to America First Legal, the special access statute “authorizes special access requests to an incumbent president only when the records in question are needed for ‘the conduct of current business’ of the White House.” The organization argues that providing documents to the DOJ for a criminal investigation is not the “current business” of the White House.