Fox News Guest Asks What FBI Was ‘Looking For’ When It Raided Mar-a-Lago and Discovered Thousands of Government Documents
In August 2022, the FBI executed a search warrant at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, where agents found more than 13,000 government documents in Trump’s possession. Later, Special Counsel Jack Smith charged Trump with illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing the government’s attempts to retrieve them.
Upon leaving office, presidents are supposed to turn government materials over to the National Archives.
The question as to what the FBI was looking for when agents executed the search warrant is fairly straightforward, given that the warrant specified that the agents were searching for government documents, as well as the fact that the agents found said documents.
However, Fox News guest John Solomon believes this is something of a mystery.
Appearing on Friday’s Hannity, Solomon echoed Trump’s dubious claims that former President Barack Obama and officials in his administration waged a campaign against Trump to undermine him over the last decade. Solomon suggested that there is a connection between the documents Trump absconded with in 2021 and the alleged plot to delegitimize the president. Trump is pushing these allegations to distract Americans from the ongoing fallout from his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
“I think the second piece that we’re also gonna watch for, what was Jack Smith looking for when he went and raided Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago in 2022?” Solomon wondered. “What was that raid looking for, and does it have a connection all the way back to this period of [2016] when we’re submitting dirty dossiers, the intelligence committee hijacking these products and lying to FISA courts and the American public?”
Solomon falsely attributed the Mar-a-Lago raid to Smith, who was not employed by the Department of Justice when it searched Mar-a-Lago in August 2022. Smith joined the department in November 2022, when then-Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed him as special counsel to investigate Trump.
Smith criminally prosecuted Trump over the documents and also in a separate case regarding Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Those cases were dismissed after Trump was elected in 2024.
In June 2022, the National Archives retrieved some government documents from Mar-a-Lago. Trump’s lawyer at the time, Christina Bobb, attested that to the best of her knowledge, no government material remained on the property. That turned out to be inaccurate, as two months later the FBI found troves of documents stored around the residence where “anybody” could access them, including in a ballroom and a bathroom.
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