President Biden told reporters on Wednesday that he had no idea that the Justice Department was planning a raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, pushing back against accusations that he gave the green light for it.
“I didn’t have any advance notice,” Biden insisted. “None, zero, not one single bit.”
Biden’s comments came just a day after it was revealed that the White House counsel’s office asked the National Archives in April to “provide the FBI access” to the initial 15 boxes of documents taken from Mar-a-Lago and ignore Trump’s claims of executive privilege. It isn’t known whether Biden himself knew about or personally approved the request.
The day after the correspondence with Trump’s legal team, a grand jury issued a subpoena for documents bearing classification markings that were still being held by Trump. On June 3, FBI and DOJ officials came to Mar-a-Lago to pick up the documents. Then, on August 5th, the FBI obtained a search warrant to raid Trump’s residence on the suspicion that further classified documents were being held there.
They were right. Agents seized 27 boxes of materials, including 11 sets of classified documents that were labeled top secret, secret, or confidential.
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Then he’s “Sleeping at the controls” !!! Which we all knew already !!!
of course he is lying, from the get go….then what difference does it make…he will never tell the truth…thank goodness this was not my country of birth…..
I’d have more respect for him if he said he doesn’t know or forgot, which is probably closer to the truth.
Seems like a game of semantics. It states the phrase “advance notice”, as if that phrase means something different than giving permission (“green light”). The White House certainly gave permission, but that does not mean the White House knew the exact moment the raid started which they misleadingly call “advance notice”.
He also “didn’t know” of hunter’s business dealings
I totally believe him
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He’s probably telling the truth. Everyone knows he’s senile, and the people running the administration for him probably don’t tell him very much until he’s about to go out for a performance. When they’ve got him drugged up they tell him what they want him to know, he goes out and tries his best to repeat it, and when he starts flagging they “call a lid”, also known as nap time.
How does anything reported here remotely indicate that he could be lying? The search was for the additional confidential documents that trump was refusing to hand over.
For those who wish to believe he lied, 1) trump is a serial liar. 2) has nothing to do with the crime of taking and trying to hide documents that are property of the government and risking lives and national security
Unlike what Trump says, while the POTUS is the head of the law enforcement division, he should NOT be involved with these cases at all because of conflict of interest. The DOJ has always had, before Trump, a firewall distance between them and the President.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/21/doj-restricts-white-house-contact-pivot-trump-politicization/7466982002/
You can’t have it both ways – to be in-charge and non-political. @ralphz, if he’s not “sleeping at the wheels,” then you’d attack him for being overly political.
Desantis2024
It’s TRUE!! He was not informed because he ordered it!!!!
aymdock,
You must be kidding if you say you really believe Obama and Clinton were not involved with the DOJ. Only the public would never hear about it. It’s just standard business – when it’s them. Don’t be a fool!
aymdock, one more thing.
Don’t think for a second that in the event DeSantis is nominated, the left will not immediately create all kinds of investigation like will look very very real on MSNBC etc. and DeSantis will be faced with a choice either to fold and compromise a bit, – and we all know where that goes – or to use every authority he legally has to fight back, whether it’s “the norm” or not. But it won’t be pretty…
pinochio Btw rt opened his mouth beware
I think the opening statement in the headline should also be used when reporting on Trump statements, though after 5 years of hearing him, we don’t have to ask, as long as we can see his lips are moving.
> aymdock
MDshweks is correct. Even Politico reported in 2013 when then-Attorney General Eric Holder (who runs the DOJ) openly boasted on the Tom Joyner radio show “I’m still the President’s wing-man, so I’m there with my boy.” That is the same Eric holder who was held in Contempt of Congress.
I doubt he is lying. The more likely explanation is the he was “asleep at the switch”. One wonders what else his staff does without telling him. What if he wakes up from his nap and there’s a stickery on his computer saying (Boss, we didn’t want to wake you, but we’ve nuked… ).