Thursday, May 28, 2026

Exclusive: Key Biden DOJ official raised red flags about FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid, memo shows - JustTheNews

A recently disclosed email shows that top Garland associates raised the issue of declassification before the morning raid. - By John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy
  • Although the memo requested that lawyers check whether Trump had the authority to declassify documents, Garland personally approved the August 2022 raid, which included searching Melania Trump's underwear drawers.
A top Biden Justice Department official and key ally of then-Attorney General Merrick Garland raised legal “concerns” about the FBI's raid on Mar-Lago, warning that then-former President Donald Trump may have actually declassified the records seized by agents, a newly-unearthed email obtained by Just the News shows.
Patty Stemler, a decades-long DOJ veteran who was reportedly picked by Garland in 2022 to help consult on Trump-related cases, sent an email just two days after the bureau’s Aug. 8, 2022 raid of Trump’s Florida resort home, where Stemler said she had “a few concerns.”...

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