Grassley Bombshell! Mar-a-Lago was a Set Up-New Docs Suggest Staged Photos of Classified Files

• Lack of Probable Cause

  • Internal FBI emails reportedly show that agents, particularly from the Washington Field Office, did not believe they had sufficient evidence to justify a search warrant.
  • Agents suggested alternative approaches, such as negotiating with Trump’s attorneys, rather than conducting a raid.

• DOJ Pressure and Decision

  • Despite internal resistance, DOJ leadership pushed forward. Attorney General Merrick Garland is quoted as saying he personally approved the decision to seek a warrant.
  • DOJ officials allegedly dismissed concerns about optics and insisted on moving ahead.

• Evidence Handling and Alleged Misconduct

  • Classified documents shown in widely circulated photos were staged by the FBI.
  • Prosecutor Jack Smith allegedly admitted in court that evidence was mishandled and misrepresented, breaking the chain of custody.

• Political Motivation

  • The raid aimed to prevent Trump from returning to the White House.
  • It draws parallels to the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation during the Obama administration, suggesting a pattern of politically driven actions.

• Internal Communications

  • Multiple email excerpts highlight:
    • Concerns about insufficient corroborated evidence.
    • Frustration over repeated drafts of affidavits without new facts.
    • Warnings that a raid would be “counterproductive” and harm optics.
    • DOJ officials allegedly stating they “don’t give a damn” about optics.

• Accountability Questions

  • A call for accountability is needed, the DOJ and FBI actions were improper and politically motivated.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Documents here don't match up. The documents that were presented
to us don't match the digitally scanned records of when
they were taken from mar A Lago, and Jack Smith
not only did they tamper with that and lie to
the court about it, but he's now admitted to the
court that he doesn't know how that happened. He's only
offered a number of possible explanations for how that could
have happened.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Good Wednesday morning. It is so nice to have you
with us on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've
got one massive story for you. It deals with corruption
at the DOJ and the FBI, and now we have
it in writing that the FBI doubted probable cause for
the Marlago raid on Donald Trump, and why did it happen?

(00:46):
Why did they keep pushing forward because the man in charge,
the Attorney General, said keep moving forward no matter what,
even if there was no evidence to support the raid.
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Speaker 2 (02:14):
Story number one.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
New files are revealing this morning that the Department of
Justice and the FBI did not have cause to raid
mar a Lago. That coming now from shocking information that
has been released by Senator Chuck Grassley. The newly released
emails and records that were made public show that FBI

(02:37):
officials internally, in writing where questioned whether they had probable
causes seek a search warrant for mar Lago, and August
of twenty twenty two emails state that the FBI's own
Washington Field office did not believe the evidence established probable
cause for a raid at that time. Despite these written

(03:00):
in doubts in writing, the Department of Justice leadership said
screw it, We're going to move forward anyway and obtained
a warrant from a federal magistrate judge. One senior FBI
agent reportedly said the effort to build probable cause was
time consuming, quote unquote, and not productive without additional evidence.

(03:25):
Grassley characterize the disclosures as a miscarriage of justice and
claimed the Biden DOJ push forward despite internal resistance based
on the facts. Now, these internal emails were not previously public,
and they contradict past public assertions about the confidence levels
before the raid on the former president's home. It's important

(03:49):
to note that the FBI's public stance was that a
judge found probable cause even though they didn't believe it
was there, and authorize the warrant. That is something Democrats
are pointing to right now to try to save themselves. Now,
let me also remind you about what happened during that
raid when there's no evidence. What do you have to

(04:09):
do when you're raiding someone tome if you want to
go after them? And why did they raid? We all
know the reason why the FBI raided the DOJ. They
were trying to make sure that Donald Trump never made
it back to the White House. Let me remind you
what now CIA director John Radcliffe had to say about
this quite some time ago after the raid happened.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, so that famous photograph. What we have now learned
and the government has had Jacksmith and his prosecutors have
had to admit that that was staged. And those top
secret classified sheets that all the public songs said, Oh
my god, look at those top secret documents, those were
placed there by the FBI. And what Jacksmith admitted in
court this week was that, in his word, they mishandled

(04:52):
the classified documents and misrepresented those to the court, Maria,
that's a kind way of saying, we tampered with the evidence,
then we lied to the court about it, and they
got caught when President Trump's lawyers and the other co
defendants raised this issue and said, look, the documents here
don't match up. The documents that were presented to us,
don't match the digitally scanned records of when they were

(05:12):
taken from mar A Lago, and Jack Smith not only
did they tamper with that and lie to the court
about it, but he's now admitted to the court that
he doesn't know how that happened. He's only offered a
number of possible explanations for how that could have happened.
So he's absolutely blown the chain of custody. And again
he has a prosecutor lead prosecutor in this case, Jay Bratt,
who met with White House counsel and a representative of

(05:35):
the National Archives in several times in the weeks before
Jack Smith was even appointed. This reeks of crossfire hurricane
when the Biden when the Obama Biden administration fabricated evidence
before the FISA court lied to the court about it
to pursue Donald Trump, and now we're seeing it again
in this classified documents case.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
So not only was this thing crooked from the beginning
and fabricated out of thin air, we also now know
that those men and women at the FBI and the
DOJ that were on the ground said there is nothing there,
there's no probable cause. And so that's where the politics
and the corruption of the Biden regime comes in. Let

(06:15):
me remind you of what the Attorney General Merrick Garland
had to say as he went on TV before the election,
of course, delivering his remarks on the search warrant executed
at President Trump's Marlago resident And what did he say,
And again put this in perspective, it's now coming out
the FBI warned the Biden administration that there was not

(06:38):
probable cause to raid mar Lago, and they rated President
Trump anyway. So who made that decision, Well, we know
exactly who it was. It was Merrick Garland. How do
we know it because he said it.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
There are, however, certain points I want you to know. First,
I personally approved the decision to see a search warrant
in this matter. Second, the Department does not take such
a decision lately.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
Which brings us back to the issue of accountability. If
you look at the FBI doubting problem cause for Malago raid,
then push forward because the man in charge, Merrek Garland, says,
I'm telling you you're going to do it. I'm personally
authorizing it. And then you have emails showing that this

(07:27):
is a massive, massive, massive problem and they're telling you
don't do it. Then how is there not accountability? And
let's just talk a little bit more about accountability. We're
now getting reporting from Fox News Digital that they're saying
the FBI not only do they not believe they had
probable cause to raid President Donald trumps Marlago home in
twenty twenty two, but they move forward amid pressure directly

(07:49):
from the Biden Justice Department, with an official saying he
didn't give a damn quote unquote about the optics of
the search. Now, this is all coming from these newly
classified documents. Fox New's Digital revealed emails between the FBI
and the Justice Department officials in the months leading up
to the August twenty twenty two raid of the president home,

(08:10):
with FBI officials expressing grave concerns about a lack of
probable cause to execute the search. Horrn on then front
runner President Donald Trump and his residence in Palm Beach. Quote.
Very little has been developed related to who might be
culpable for mishandling the documents, and FBI officials serving as

(08:30):
an assistant Special Agent in charge wrote to another FBI
official from the interviews, the who has gathered information suggesting
that there may be additional boxes, presumably of the same type.
As we're sent back to NAR in January at mar Lago,
who has been drafting a search hornant affidavit related to

(08:53):
these potential boxes. But as some concerns that the information
is single source, has not been corroborated and may be dated,
the official continues, again, this is all in writing. Dj csopines, however,
that the sws meet the problem cause standard. Then it
says this even as we continue down the path towards

(09:15):
a search warrant, WFO believes that a reasonable conversation with
the former president attorney they're talking about Donald Trump, stating
that the FBI and the DOJ are reading a search
warrant and have developed information that there are more documents
tomorrowl IGO ought not to be discounted. The official road,

(09:36):
in other words, are saying, don't do this. Don't go
rate it. Talk to his lawyers. We can probably make
all this go away. Then, it says in this document
this at a minimum, even if the former president's attorney
is correct, and the documents were all declassified or believed
to be disclassified, it can be reasonably argued that the

(10:00):
documents remain sensitive and should be properly secured until the
matter of classification is sorted out. The official continued, this
conversation could easily be accomplished at the same time that
the WHO presses forward with the investigation and continues building
out a search warrant. In other words, hey, you guys

(10:21):
are over reacting. You don't want to go raid mar Lago.
There's not probable cause. I'm telling you that this call
can be done through lawyers. This is a mistake. I'm
telling you we don't have what we need to go
in raid mar Lago. And now we understand going back
to Radcliffe, why they were placing these folders out in
the floor and taking pictures. It was all a setup.
We know that. Now now here's something else is interesting.

(10:43):
Weeks later, an FBI agent writes an email stating this quote,
we haven't generated any new facts, but keep being given
draft after draft after draft. In other words, you're going
to raid this thing. I don't care what you found.
Then the FBI agent writes, this absent a witness coming

(11:04):
forward with recent information about classified documents on site, At
what point is it fair to table this question mark?
The agent rights it is time consuming for the team
and not productive if there are no new facts supporting
probable cause. Another email revealed that the FBI's Washington Field

(11:27):
office did not believe, as has articulated to the DOJ
and the CS, that we have established probable cause for
the search warrant for classified records at mar Lago. Then
there's another line. This is what it says. Quote the
DOJ is a pine that they do not have probable cause,

(11:47):
requesting a wide scope including residents office storage space. Another
agent wrote, the FBI believe that a raid would be
counterproductive their words in writing, and suggested alternatives less intrusive
and likelier quicker options for resolution to reclaim any potential

(12:09):
classified records. The process move forward regardless of all of
these concerns that were put in writing. There's even another
email on August fourth of twenty twenty two, revealed the
plan for the execution of the warrant, saying this, the
FBI intends for the execution of the warrant to be
handled in a professional, low key manner and to be

(12:32):
mindful of the optics of the search, an agent writes.
The agent quotes then Deputy Assistant Attorney General in a
meeting saying, quote, Since we heard mister Tosca say yesterday
in the call that he quote frankly doesn't give a
damn about the optics, and mister Brad has already built
an antagonistic relationship with Trump attorneys, I think it is

(12:57):
more than fair to say that the DOJ contact with
Trump attorneys just prior to the execution of the warrant
will not go well. DOJ said as much yesterday. The
agent writes, it also thinks that it is fair to
say that if FBI calls having in mind officer safety,

(13:17):
to the optics of the search, and the desire to
conduct the search in a professional and low key manner,
there is a far better chance that the execution will
go more smoothly and we may actually gain some measure
of cooperation which could go some way to resolving the
mishandling of classified records and the investigation that is being conducted.

(13:39):
The agent added, I understand that this request may not
go well at DOJ. However, it is the FBI serving
and executing the search, and it will be our personnel
who have to deal with the reaction to that first contact.
So what happened? The FBI rated mar Lago execute the

(14:01):
sir towarnts as part of the investigation into alleged and
proper retention of classified records that they and writing said,
there's no probable cause for this, and why do they
do it? For one reason, because the Biden administration weaponized
the government to try to take out their political opponent
and put in jail the sitting president now of the

(14:23):
United States of America, a guy by the name of
Donald Trump.

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