They Lied: Internal Emails Suggest Biden Admin Officials Were Involved in Mar-a-Lago Raid Despite Claims Otherwise

The group America First Legal recently obtained government documents related to the raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, which suggest that the Biden administration was involved in the raid despite their claims to have found out about the news on social media. According to Reed D. Rubinstein, the senior counselor and director of oversight and investigations at America First Legal, “The evidence further suggests that Biden officials in the Executive Office of the President and the Department of Justice unlawfully abused their power and then lied about it to the American people.”

America First Legal discovered that the FBI initially obtained access to Trump’s records through a “special access request” from the Biden White House, which confirms Fox News’ reporting from August when NARA acting head Debra Wall wrote a letter to Trump’s attorney alluding to the Biden administration’s involvement.

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 August letter from Wall to Trump attorney Evan Corcoran also seemingly hinted at President Biden’s involvement.