FBI Director Kash Patel said on Fox Business Wednesday that he’s taking direct action to expose what he calls the FBI’s years-long political campaign against President Donald Trump.
In 2022, the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago to recover classified documents that Trump allegedly took from the White House when he left office in January 2021. In an interview on “Kudlow,” Patel said he’s now focused on two primary actions to hold the FBI accountable.
“Once we rid, and that’s what we’re doing here at the FBI, ridding this place of its former leadership structure that did that weaponization,” Patel said. “And we’re giving accountability to the American people as we find it, as you highlighted, myself, Director Ratcliffe, and others in the intelligence community, are declassifying documents at a great rate to publicize what we’re finding. So the American public can read it for themselves.”
Patel accused the Bureau as well as the Department of Justice (DOJ) of acting as tools of the Obama and Biden administrations.
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“It was a total weaponization and politicization by the FBI and DOJ and the Biden administration, dating back to the Obama administration that led not only to Russiagate, as you opened up with, but to the invasion of Donald Trump’s private home in Mar-a-Lago,” Patel told host Larry Kudlow.
Patel said the FBI had no legal or constitutional basis to investigate or raid Trump. He called it the result of a politicized DOJ driven by partisan interests. (RELATED: FBI Brought Props To Stage Infamous Trump Crime Scene Photo)
“There was no constitutional basis to do so. There was no lawful predicate to open that investigation. But once you let the politicians run the FBI and DOJ and weaponize it against their political opponents, like they have done for years against Donald Trump, back to Russiagate and to his home, we are now showing and exposing, again, the weaponization,” Patel said.
Then–Biden administration aides reportedly claimed they were surprised by the FBI’s 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago, but internal emails released in 2023 by America First Legal (AFL) show the DOJ made a “special access request” through the Biden White House to review Trump’s documents. This coordination suggests the White House and DOJ may have worked together to obtain the records and “perhaps create a pretext for the law enforcement raid,” according to AFL.
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