Judge Aileen Cannon has ordered prosecutors to reveal damning coordination with the Biden administration, details that special counsel Jack Smith previously worked hard to conceal from the public.
Following Judge Cannon’s ruling, memorandums detailing Smith’s efforts to keep the White House informed about his investigation into President Trump have now been unredacted. The newly revealed evidence illustrates the close collaboration between Smith and high-ranking officials in the Biden administration and the U.S. Department of Justice. This collaboration involved urging Trump to return classified documents, sometimes delaying communications with the former president until they had been reviewed by Biden’s legal team.
Investigative reporter Julie Kelly unveiled four pages detailing Smith’s schemes, showing the before and after redactions on X.
In one document, Gary Stern, general counsel for the National Archives, acknowledged that “[i]t is not uncommon that [Presidential Records Act] material collection extends past the close of any presidential administration,” sometimes “well after the close of any given presidential administration.” The line was previously redacted by Smith and showcased by President Trump’s attorneys as an early indication of bias by the National Archives.
NEW: Thanks to order by Judge Cannon, key evidence related to classified docs case is now unredacted.
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024
On the left: What DOJ/Jack Smith wanted to conceal.
On the right: Now we know why. More proof of collaboration btw Biden White House and NARA to concoct a case. pic.twitter.com/YVHVmAfOai
US Attorney General Merrick Garland’s claims of “independence” from investigations into Trump are lies.
Evidence indicates that he escalated the search to a “full investigation,” as reported by Fox News.
On September 1, 2021, Stern circulated a “letter that we could consider sending to the Attorney General about missing Trump Records,” another line Smith had requested to be redacted. Smith mentioned at the time that he had “informally reached out to DOJ counsel about the issue,” and that “White House counsel are now aware of the issue and has asked that I keep them in the loop to the extent that we make any reference to the [White House Office of Records Management].”
During the same week, two individuals involved in the matter began drafting a referral to the DOJ. On March 30th, 2022, Garland approved upgrading the probe.
NEW: Thanks to order by Judge Cannon, key evidence related to classified docs case is now unredacted.
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024
On the left: What DOJ/Jack Smith wanted to conceal.
On the right: Now we know why. More proof of collaboration btw Biden White House and NARA to concoct a case. pic.twitter.com/YVHVmAfOai
In another section, Trump’s attorneys point to efforts aimed at excluding their client from the loop as proof that the Biden administration “weaponized” the PRA.
In late September 2021, as a referral to the DOJ was on the horizon, Deputy White House Counsel Jonathan Su requested one of President Trump’s coordinators for the investigation to grant authorization for a colleague to access notes taken in the closing days of the Trump administration, as staffers prepared the storage of classified materials. Per the unredacted document, Su intervened when Stern attempted to provide a copy of the notes to Trump’s representative.
“[C]ould we discuss the process before anything is provided to him?” Su wrote to Stern, who agreed but said the request was “atypical” of most records-gathering efforts.
“[N]ormally we would have to provide the records to him per the notification/review process, before we could provide anything to you,” Stern replied. Two days later, he assured Su that the former president’s representative “[h]ad not asked to see these records.”
Outrageous lies by Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and DOJ/Jack Smith about "independence" from investigations into Trump.
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024
The Biden White House and DOJ wew intimately involved in developing a criminal case against Trump for records mismanagement–it appears the… pic.twitter.com/UhHPtRkVlR
Further revelations uncover the level of coordination between the DOJ and FBI across various governmental agencies in anticipation of the August 8th, 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago. President Trump posted on social media that morning, stating that his compound was “under siege” by authorities and criticizing the operation as unnecessary, given his team’s full cooperation.
“A search warrant, 22-mj-8332-BER, issued in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida on August 5, 2022, was executed at 1100 South Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Florida 33480 at 10:33 a.m. on August 8, 2022,” the document reads.
“Prior to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) team’s entry onto the MAL premises, FBI leadership informed and coordinated with local United States Secret Service (USSS) leadership. Local USSS facilitated entry onto the premises, provided escort and access to various locations within, and posted USSS personnel in locations where the FBI team conducted searches,” it continued.
The raid involved four agents from the FBI WFO, one FBI Headquarters personnel, 25 agents from the FBI Miami Field Office, one attorney from the DOJ Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, and one attorney from the United States Attorney’s Office Southern District of Florida, making a total of 32 participants.
Joe Biden’s Department of Energy was also involved in the cover-up.
It’s worth noting that the DOE revoked Trump’s security clearance retroactively after his indictment.
According to unredacted documents, the Department of Energy found that Trump still held an active security clearance after his indictment, prompting them to terminate it retroactively.
Biden Dept of Energy also involved in the cover up.
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024
DOE discovered after Smith handed down his indictment that Trump had an active security clearance–so they retroactively terminated it. pic.twitter.com/mXa7hXcWcw
