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New Emails Reveal Biden White House Was Talking to DOJ About Mar-a-Lago Three Months Before the Raid

A series of internal FBI and DOJ emails, released through congressional investigations and the Trump administration’s ongoing declassification push, have put new pressure on former Attorney General Merrick Garland’s repeated public assurance that the August 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago was his decision and his alone — with emails showing Biden’s White House Counsel’s office was communicating directly with Garland’s DOJ about the case months before agents arrived at Trump’s Palm Beach home.

Chad Mizelle, a former senior DOJ official who served as chief of staff to current Attorney General Pam Bondi, told the New York Post he reviewed emails showing Biden’s White House Counsel’s Office coordinating directly with Garland’s DOJ and the National Archives ahead of the raid. The emails show the parties discussing the Mar-a-Lago documents — and then, at one point, a White House staffer suggested taking the discussion “offline.” The paper trail ends there. “The White House not only knew about it, but they were also coordinating it,” Mizelle said. The New York Post confirmed the emails exist through a separate source but said it had not independently reviewed the documents itself. Yahoo!

Separately, FBI Director Kash Patel provided Congress with evidence that FBI field agents did not believe they had met the legal standard of probable cause required for the raid but proceeded anyway after DOJ officials overruled them. Washington Field Office Assistant Director Steven D’Antuono was among the FBI officials opposed to the search warrant. Jack Smith’s deputy Jay Bratt pushed for it. Garland gave final approval. Just The News

A third document surfaced last week — an email from Patty Stemler, a veteran DOJ lawyer Garland had appointed to consult on Trump-related cases, sent just two days after the raid. Stemler wrote that she had “a few concerns” — specifically whether disclosing the seizure of classified documents before any indictment was sought would “trench on any fair trial rights or violate the ethical obligations of a prosecutor.” The email went to Sophia Brill, then a DOJ National Security Division attorney and later a Biden White House lawyer. Fox News

What the emails do not yet prove — and what no investigation has established — is that Biden personally directed the raid or that Garland’s stated reasons for approving the warrant were pretextual. What they do show is that the White House was not, as publicly claimed, walled off from the investigation. The coordination existed. Whether it crossed legal or ethical lines is what the ongoing DOJ investigation is attempting to determine.

The story connects directly to the Carmen Lineberger indictment Swansenreport covered last week — the Fort Pierce prosecutor accused of smuggling sealed Jack Smith documents disguised as cake recipes. Both cases are part of the same thread: the Trump administration’s systematic effort to expose what it calls the weaponization of federal law enforcement against a sitting and former president.

Sources: Fox News — FBI Emails | New York Post / Townhall — Mizelle | RedState — Stemler Email | PJ Media — Mizelle Summary