FBI agents executed a search warrant at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022 and seized more than 13,000 government documents. Special Counsel Jack Smith later prosecuted Trump for allegedly retaining classified documents and willfully obstructing their retrieval; those indictments were dropped after Trump was elected president. An FBI official alleged the bureau had been weaponized against Trump and said individuals who participated were removed from leadership. Questions arose about the justification for the raid, with claims that there was no crime or predicate. Two months before the raid, the National Archives recovered some documents, but the FBI later found additional troves at the residence.
Kudlow asked, Have the old leaders who assigned this and directed this operation have they been dismissed from the FBI? Every single person that has been found to have weaponized or participated in that process has been removed from leadership positions, Patel replied. Another question, Kudlow continued. Why was Mar-a-Lago invaded? What were they looking for?! This is speculation. No one knows to this day. I mean, it happened several years ago. We'll probably be talking about this for years ahead
Creating a crime where one did not exist, Patel insisted. The answer has been definitive. There was no crime. There was no predicate to go in and invade Donald Trump's home. We have answered that definitively. Now, you know me. Working backwards from that point, we are going to hold people accountable who weaponized that system of justice for the following reason. Two months before the Mar-a-Lago raid, the National Archives retrieved some government documents from Mar-a-Lago.
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