NEW: thanks to @StephenM’s organization America First Legal, we now know that the Biden WH was directly involved with the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago.
— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) April 10, 2023
BANANA REPUBLIC! pic.twitter.com/2BLpdoURmG
🚨 🚨 🚨 FBI collusion with Biden White House in Mar-a-Lago raid https://t.co/xNg9zNdCh5
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) April 10, 2023
/2 On August 8, 2022, the FBI conducted an unprecedented raid of Mar-a-Lago on the ground that potentially classified records existed there.
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) April 10, 2023
According to press reports, Biden Administration aides were surprised to hear of this development. pic.twitter.com/d951QcbUY8
/3 However, the new records we obtained from our investigation into the circumstances of the Mar-a-Lago raid reveal the Biden White House & DOJ coordinated to obtain the Trump records and perhaps create a pretext for the law enforcement raid by way of a "special access request."
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) April 10, 2023
/4 What this means is that there are substantial discrepancies between what the Archives has told Congress and what appears in its internal communications...
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) April 10, 2023
/5 For example, Acting Archivist Debra Wall told @RepMikeTurner on August 16, 2022, that NARA "had not been involved in the DOJ investigation or any searches that it has conducted." pic.twitter.com/JJAqQr23wv
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) April 10, 2023
/6 This stunning revelation suggests that NARA was misleading Congress about the White House's role in the shocking raid of President Trump's home, and the fact that the Biden White House was acting "on behalf of" the DOJ raises significant legal concerns.
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) April 10, 2023
/7 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...
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) April 10, 2023
/8 ...Providing documents to the DOJ for purposes of a criminal investigation is not the "current business" of the White House.
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) April 10, 2023
Legal Check: True.
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) September 22, 2022
By sending his records to Mar-A-Lago, Trump declassified and made them "personal" under the Presidential Records Act.
Like Bill Clinton did, per 2012 Obama judge ruling, when he put 8 years of highly classified recordings of his presidency in his sock drawer. pic.twitter.com/1sNQTvIqoZ
ICYMI from January 2021:
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) August 19, 2022
Trump declassified these Crossfire Hurricane records.
He may have legally declared a copy as “personal,” under the Presidential Records Act.
These records could be very damaging to Biden, Obama, and Hillary.
Hence, the unprecedented and unlawful raid? pic.twitter.com/7Do0Wnx87e
It was legal for Bill Clinton to have highly classified recordings in his sock drawer.
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) September 22, 2022
And legal for Obama to have highly classified records in an unsecured storage unit.
But it’s (somehow) illegal for Trump to have his (declassified) records in the Office of Former President?
1. So President Trump declassified (very) politically damaging records on Obama and Biden?
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) August 13, 2022
2. Then Attorney General Merrick Garland sent his FBI raid brigade to go retrieve them from Mar-a-Lago? https://t.co/Pil5xU58ex
Again, the classification statutes/regulations *do not apply* to the President of the United States.
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) August 12, 2022
He has the inherent constitutional power, as commander-in-chief, to classify and declassify anything he wants, in any manner he wants.
The Supreme Court reaffirmed this in 1987. https://t.co/bANCEhBTT1
Presidents have the inherent constitutional (and statutory) authority to declassify anything they want.
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) August 11, 2022
They don’t need to label it.
They don’t need to report it.
They don’t have to tell anyone.
They can do it through their actions.
As a matter of law, no President can be charged under the Espionage Act for “mishandling” classified records.
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) August 11, 2022
When President Trump had the records sent to Mar-a-Lago, they were declassified.
Former presidents don’t have this power.
But Trump did this as the President.
As a matter of law, no President can be charged under the Espionage Act for “mishandling” classified records.
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) August 11, 2022
When President Trump had the records sent to Mar-a-Lago, they were declassified.
Former presidents don’t have this power.
But Trump did this as the President.
As discussed, the Office of Former President Trump—like every other former president’s federal office—is equipped and secure enough to handle these declassified records.
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) August 11, 2022
This is a routine dispute with bureaucrats at the National Archives whether these are presidential records.
If they’re presidential records, the National Archives “owns” them—but they’ll almost certainly stay with Trump in his presidential library.
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) August 11, 2022
That’s it.
That’s the bureaucratic dispute.
This isn’t some damn raid-able crime.
Attorney General Merrick Garland knows this.
IMPEACH
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