Fox’s Larry Kudlow Claims ‘No One Knows’ What the FBI Was Looking for When Agents Found Government Documents at Mar-a-Lago
Fox Business host Larry Kudlow insisted that “no one knows” why the FBI executed a search warrant at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022.
During the raid, agents seized more than 13,000 government documents. The following year, Special Counsel Jack Smith prosecuted Trump for allegedly retaining classified documents after leaving office and willfully obstructing their retrieval. The president was supposed to give the materials to the National Archives upon leaving office. The indictments against Trump were dropped after he was elected president last year.
On Wednesday’s Kudlow, the host welcomed FBI Director Kash Patel, who once again alleged that the bureau had been “weaponized” against Trump, which, Patel said, includes the Mar-a-Lago raid.
Kudlow asked, “Have the old leaders who assigned this and directed this operation – have they been dismissed from the FBI?”
“Every single person that has been found to have weaponized or participated in that process has been removed from leadership positions,” Patel replied.
“Another question,” Kudlow continued. “Why was Mar-a-Lago invaded? What were they looking for?! This is speculation. No one knows to this day. I mean, it happened several years ago. We’ll probably be talking about this for years ahead… What was the FBI looking for?!”
“Creating a crime where one did not exist,” Patel insisted. “The answer has been definitive. There was no crime. There was no predicate to go in and invade Donald Trump’s home. We have answered that definitively. Now, you know me. Working backwards from that point, we are going to hold people accountable who weaponized that system of justice for the following reason.”
Two months before the Mar-a-Lago raid, the National Archives retrieved some government documents from Mar-a-Lago. Trump’s lawyer at the time, Christina Bobb, attested that as far as she knew, no government material remained. That turned out to be untrue when the FBI found troves of documents stored around the residence where “anybody” could access them, including in a ballroom and a bathroom.
Last month, Fox News guest John Solomon expressed similar bafflement over the FBI’s search, which was conducted via a warrant that specified that the bureau was seeking to find the very government documents it ultimately recovered from Trump’s home.
“[W]hat was Jack Smith looking for when he went and raided Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago in 2022?” Solomon wondered.
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