The August 2022 FBI raid on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was sold to the public as a grave national security necessity. Armed agents, flashing lights, and breathless media coverage all screamed urgency. Now, newly released documents show what many Americans suspected at the time, the Biden FBI itself wasn’t even convinced it had probable cause to do it.
According to emails released by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, the FBI initially told the Justice Department it did not believe a search warrant was justified. Let that sink in. The same bureau that went on to swarm a former president’s home admitted internally that it hadn’t met the legal threshold to do so.
Received shocking new docs 2day from DOJ & FBI showing FBI DID NOT BELIEVE IT HAD PROBABLE CAUSE to raid Pres Trump's Mar-a-Lago home but Biden DOJ pushed for it anyway
Based on the records Mar-a-Lago raid was a miscarriage of justice
Read for urself: https://t.co/qbJNT0tcRE pic.twitter.com/ljWdjndhHE— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) December 16, 2025
The emails show the FBI’s Washington Field Office arguing there were less intrusive ways to recover the documents. They specifically pointed to President Trump’s attorney, Evan Corcoran, noting he had been cooperative and effective in past interactions. In other words, the FBI believed the situation could be handled professionally and quietly without a raid that would shock the country.
The Justice Department disagreed. DOJ officials pushed ahead anyway, insisting they had probable cause and demanding a broad warrant covering the residence, office, and storage areas. That disagreement alone should have stopped everything in its tracks. Instead, DOJ steamrolled its own investigators and ordered one of the most unprecedented law enforcement actions in American history.
Even worse, witness interviews at the time had not produced evidence that classified materials were still hidden at Mar-a-Lago after documents were returned on June 3, 2022. The FBI knew this. The emails show agents scrambling for what they called a “second path” to justify the warrant just one week before the raid.
They also talked about optics. The warrant, they said, should be executed in a “professional, low key manner.” Anyone who watched the spectacle knows how laughable that sounds now. Dozens of agents arrived, lights and sirens blazing, broke into a safe, and searched areas including Melania Trump’s bedroom. President Trump wasn’t even there. Only staff and groundskeepers were on site.
This wasn’t about documents. It was about intimidation and politics. The FBI had doubts. DOJ didn’t care. And the media cheered it on without asking a single hard question.
Now, with Special Counsel Jack Smith set to testify and House Republicans digging deeper, the narrative is collapsing. The raid that was supposed to prove President Trump was guilty instead proves something else entirely. The federal government knew it was on shaky ground and charged ahead anyway.
That’s not law enforcement. That’s abuse of power, plain and simple.
And trumps the dictator/ fascist!!!! Appears Biden and his corrupt admin where the problem!!!