The Trump admin is trying to transform the FBI for the better. There’s a lot of corruption that needs to be rooted out.
And the FBI made a shocking confession that will give you chills.
Internal FBI records have surfaced showing that the bureau didn’t buy into the idea of raiding President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home back in August 2022.
Thanks to Sen. Chuck Grassley, the no-nonsense Republican from Iowa, these documents are now out in the open, exposing what looks like a blatant abuse of power by the deep state.
The records paint a clear picture: the FBI’s Washington Field Office flat-out admitted they lacked the evidence needed for a search warrant. One memo from an assistant special agent spells it out clearly.
The Washington Field Office “does not believe (and has articulated to DOJ [counterintelligence]) that we have established probable cause for the search warrant for classified records at Mar-a-Lago,” the document states plainly.
But here’s where it gets infuriating—the Department of Justice under Joe Biden’s watch pushed back hard.
“DOJ has opined that they do have probable cause,” the memo says, “requesting a wide scope including residence, office, storage space.”
Agents had been grinding away for six long weeks, desperately hunting for any shred of probable cause, but it all backfired. Their efforts were labeled as downright “counterproductive.”
Even worse, chats with witnesses turned up zilch. No one provided a hint that any sensitive files were still stashed at Mar-a-Lago after a batch was handed back on June 3, 2022.
Sen. Grassley didn’t hold back when he dropped these records on X, calling them “shocking” and hammering home the point that the “FBI DID NOT BELIEVE IT HAD PROBABLE CAUSE to raid Pres Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home but Biden DOJ pushed for it anyway.”
The veteran senator went further, slamming the whole ordeal as a prime example of a “miscarriage of justice” targeted straight at Trump.
Digging deeper into the memos, it’s evident the FBI was scrambling for alternatives.
They were on the hunt for “a second path” to justify the warrant, as noted by Tony Riedlinger, the Washington Field Office’s special agent in charge of counterintelligence.
These exchanges happened just a week before the August 8, 2022, raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property, revealing the bureau’s internal doubts and desperation.
Emails involving Riedlinger and Steven D’Antuono, the DC field office leader, show the FBI wanted to handle things quietly. They aimed to execute the warrant “in a professional, low key manner … mindful of the optics of the search.”
Part of that plan included reaching out to one of Trump’s lawyers for cooperation, but the agents worried it “may not go well at DOJ.”
Fast forward to June 2023, and special counsel Jack Smith slaps Trump with a laundry list of charges, accusing him of stashing sensitive files in places like his bedroom, ballroom, basement, and bathroom at Mar-a-Lago.
But justice prevailed when U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in South Florida tossed the case out the window. Her ruling? Smith was illegally appointed as special counsel without a nod from Congress.
This entire saga reeks of a political hit job, designed to hobble a man who has fought for everyday Americans against the swamp.
