WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, America First Legal (AFL) released explosive new documents obtained through an ongoing investigation into the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) further confirming that the classified documents case against President Trump was a sham prosecution that involved the Biden White House from the start — long before NARA’s official referral of the classified documents to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for investigation.
In 2023, AFL exposed that a “special access request” from the Biden White House led to the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago.
In both NARA’s response to AFL and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s superseding indictment against President Trump, the Biden Administration’s official position was that NARA referred the matter to DOJ for investigation in February 2022 after it received the classified documents from Mar-a-Lago.
But by the summer of 2021, even though NARA was assured they’d “get to a resolution relatively soon” on Trump’s boxes, then-Archivist of the United States David Ferriero was “out of patience,” and NARA General Counsel Gary Stern started “working on a letter to the AG.”
By September 2021, NARA had informed President Biden’s White House Counsel and DOJ and drafted a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland seeking “assistance for the recovery of Presidential Records” even though, admittedly, the Presidential Records Act “has no explicit provision” authorizing such a procedure.
However, because NARA’s ongoing engagement with President Trump’s representatives “could help to clarify, if not actually resolve, the issue,” they nixed the DOJ letter. Instead, President Biden’s Deputy White House Counsel devised a pretext for a “special access request” to NARA for Trump’s Presidential records.
This new timeline is further proof that President Biden’s Federal Bureau of Investigation raid on Mar-a-Lago was never about securing classified documents — it was always about weaponizing the full force of the Department of Justice against President Trump by whatever means necessary.
Read the documents here.
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