President Trump has faced unprecedented lawsuits, including four indictments, two impeachments and countless lawsuits aimed at keeping him from power, confiscating his wealth and even putting him in prison for life. The most poignant example? The August 2022 FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago property. This week we learned that even FBI agents didn’t believe there was probable cause for the sham raid.
The Fourth Amendment is fundamental to our Republic. The government cannot search or seize a person’s home, office, papers, or person without probable cause. Normally, authorities must obtain a search warrant before conducting a search or seizure.
When the attack on Mar-a-Lago became public, opponents of the rule of law were shocked, because we had crossed the Rubicon. FBI agents searched Trump’s personal belongings and took his passport. They staged photos of folders supposedly containing classified information scattered haphazardly, and the Justice Department under then-President Biden released them to the media to portray Trump in a negative light.
This image, included in a Justice Department court filing on August 30, 2022, and partially redacted by the FBI, shows a photo of documents seized during the FBI’s August 8 search of then-former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. On Wednesday, an appeals court lifted a judge’s ruling that banned the Justice Department from using seized classified documents. (Ministry of Justice via AP)
The material in question consisted of documents that Trump was allowed to keep under the Presidential Records Act. A battle arose between Trump and the National Archives, which wanted some documents. Biden’s deputy White House counsel, Jonathan Su, waived executive privilege, allowing Biden’s Justice Department to begin an investigation. The Justice Department obtained a warrant to search and seize the documents, and Trump was indicted the following year for allegedly unlawfully retaining classified material.
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The whole process was corrupt. First, the data was under Secret Service protection. Former presidents receive federal funds for secure office space so they can maintain classified documents. Former presidents, prior to Biden’s shameful decision to shut out Trump, were entitled to secret intelligence briefings. Trump allowed government officials to come to Mar-a-Lago to view the data and only opposed turning them over.
Second, the motive for returning the documents had nothing to do with security concerns. Trump had a lot of data on Operation Crossfire Hurricane, the official name for the Obama-Clinton Russian Collusion Hoax. Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign advanced the claim that Trump colluded with Russia to hack into Clinton’s emails. Trump sued Clinton and the Democratic National Committee over the Russia investigation.
Former Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith enters a room in the Rayburn House Office Building to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, part of its oversight of DOJ investigations into President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Third, the order was a sham because the magistrate was not neutral and detached. Judge Bruce Rinehart of the Southern District of Florida signed the order. Just six weeks earlier, Rinehart had withdrawn from the Trump/Clinton lawsuit. The reason was obvious: Rinehart, when he was a citizen in 2017, had written a Facebook post that viciously bashed Trump. Biden’s Justice Department ran to a blatantly biased judge to obtain the order.
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This week, through documents released by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, we learned that even agents from the FBI’s Washington Field Office didn’t think there was probable cause for the raid. The involvement of the Washington Field Office itself is scandalous. The alleged crime took place in the Southern District of Florida. Yet Biden’s special counsel, Jack Smith, used a grand jury in DC to obtain subpoenas. D.C. voted for Trump’s opponents by 90% or more in the last three elections. Smith also went to blatantly left-wing DC Chief District Judges Beryl Howell and James Boasberg to obtain favorable rulings. Smith only sued Trump in the Southern District of Florida because he feared a conviction in D.C. for improper venue would be overturned.
Federal Judge Aileen Cannon. (US courts)
Florida District Judge Aileen Cannon invalidated Smith’s appointment on constitutional grounds. Then Trump won a decisive election victory last November, and Smith ended his ignominious witch hunt and fled back to Europe.
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The legal battle against Trump, his aides, his supporters and even members of Congress, most blatantly during Operation Arctic Frost, in which nearly a dozen senators had their phone records seized, threatened to destroy the Republic. However, the perpetrators of justice failed and it is time for legal accountability in the form of a criminal conspiracy charge under 18 USC § 241.
The government searched a former president’s home without probable cause to seize data to protect a corrupt former presidential candidate and put an end to Trump’s future political prospects. And the government obtained the search warrant from a biased judicial disgrace who had nothing to do with any case involving Trump. What happened is a stain on the judiciary and the nation. Justice must and will come.
