Repeated objections? So why did they approve the operation when there were repeated objections?
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) December 18, 2025
This smells really bad - American Thinker https://t.co/NaJro7bjQq
Back in August 2022, I watched the Biden administration send agents to former President Trump's home. I told my wife that it was crazy overreach and would backfire along with all the other lawfare. The explanation was that they were searching for documents that the former President was not releasing. The whole thing just looked like a banana republic operation.
Well, a new article by Byron York provides some new information that may confirm that my "banana republic" reaction may have been on target. This is the story:
As the FBI raised doubts that a search warrant for Donald Trump’s Florida estate met probable cause standards, the Justice Department under President Joe Biden pushed to expand the search’s scope, refused cooperation with Trump’s attorney, and discounted the agents’ concerns about the optics of the raid, according to newly declassified emails turned over to Congress.
The new evidence that surfaced Tuesday may have more than political impact, as a top congressman warns it may give Trump cause to sue for civil liberty violations or prompt prosecutors to pursue a criminal investigation.
"This is going to go down as a very dark chapter in American history, and President Trump may have recourse now to be able to seek damages at some point in time," Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., told Just the News.
The new emails were turned over to Congress after Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel declassified them. They show the FBI in summer 2022 raised repeated objections to raiding Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, expressing doubt that there was sufficient “probable cause” to believe the then-former president had broken the law in handling classified documents.
The memos also show that the bureau's Washington Field Office and its agents repeatedly tried to find alternative solutions to a contentious raid of the property, including having a “reasonable conversation” with Trump’s lawyers and limiting the search warrant to avoid private areas of the estate.
Repeated objections? So why did they approve the operation when there were repeated objections?
My answer is that they knew that it was "a banana republic" operation by people who thought that a Democrat would be elected in 2024 and the whole thing would be pushed under the rug. It reminds me of Director James Comey protecting Hillary Clinton on the assumption that he'd be given a nice job when she was in the White House. Maybe I'm too cynical, but we are talking about very calculating and ruthless people.
So it's up to the Congress to pick up this ball and move forward. A former President's house was raided and now we learn that there were doubts about the whole thing. It smells bad and should smell bad even if you hate Trump.
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