Memos Show Joe Biden Tried to Entrap Donald Trump Over ‘Classified’ Documents – Opinion

A new report is shedding light on exactly how the DOJ investigation into Donald Trump over supposed “classified documents” at Mar-a-Lago got started. The FBI recently raided the former president’s Florida home, claiming possible violations of the Espionage Act and other national security concerns.

Following the unusual action, there were a number of coordinated leaks within the government that made Trump appear guilty of crimes. What happened to get us this far?

It all started at the National Archives. The National Archives is managed by a hacker who treated Trump differently than any other president before him. Barack Obama stole millions of pages from documents and many were likely classified. The National Archives made a sweetheart agreement that would allow him to digitize the entire collection at a later time. Surprisingly, none of this has ever happened. Heck, there are presidents whose libraries still haven’t returned requested documents decades after their deaths. For Trump, though, the National Archives didn’t even give him a year before running to the DOJ to push for a criminal investigation.

With the “crime” pinpointed, the National Archives and the DOJ still needed a legal hook, and apparently, they got it by directly coordinating with the Biden administration. That’s been revealed via memos reviewed by Just The News.

The memos show then-White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su was engaged in conversations with the FBI, DOJ and National Archives as early as April, shortly after 15 boxes of classified and other materials were voluntarily returned to the federal historical agency from Trump’s Florida home.

By May, Su conveyed to the Archives that President Joe Biden would not object to waiving his predecessor’s claims to executive claims, a decision that opened the door for DOJ to get a grand jury to issue a subpoena compelling Trump to turn over any remaining materials he possessed from his presidency.

The machinations are summarized in several memos and emails exchanged between the various agencies in spring 2022, months before the FBI took the added unprecedented step of raiding Trump’s Florida compound with a court-issued search warrant.

One specific letter to Trump’s legal team outlines Biden’s White House counsel telling the National Archives that the administration was waiving Trump’s previous claims of executive privilege.

This letter showed that Biden authorized the National Archives and Records Administration (NAROA) to waive all executive privilege claims Trump may have to prevent DOJ access.

“The Counsel to the President has informed me that, in light of the particular circumstances presented here, President Biden defers to my determination, in consultation with the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, regarding whether or not I should uphold the former President’s purported ‘protective assertion of executive privilege,’” Wall wrote. “… I have therefore decided not to honor the former President’s ‘protective’ claim of privilege.”

Matt Margolis, PJ Media’s colleague describes the situation here as entrapment. I agree. That’s exactly what this looks like. Trump was doing what so many other presidents had done: he claimed executive privilege over documents that were created during his presidency. The idea that a later president, specifically a political rival, could then waive that, allowing a criminal investigation to snap into place is insane, but that’s what happened here.

Although the DOJ did not have the right to look at those documents, Biden worked with the National Archives and them to clear any legal hurdles that might prevent Trump from being pursued. It’s the Russian collusion hoax all over again, except instead of the garbage Steele Dossier serving as the hook, you have a letter from Biden’s lawyer nuking the executive privilege of a former president. It’s the same concept, but just as important, it has the same motive: To get Trump.

The obvious implication here is that the Biden administration lied when they said they had no involvement in the DOJ’s investigation of Trump over these records. They did, because they allowed the investigation to proceed in the first instance. And they were aware of what the DOJ wanted from the start. Biden decided to go against the grain and abuse executive privilege in order to make the case for his primary opponent. It is shocking to see the extent of corruption and power abuse. It might be called impeachable by some.

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