They told us the raid was airtight. They told us the law was clear.
Now a newly surfaced email suggests that even inside the Biden Department of Justice, serious legal doubts were being raised just days after FBI agents descended on President Trump’s Florida home.
A report from Just the News reveals that Patty Stemler, a decades-long DOJ veteran and a key ally of Attorney General Merrick Garland, sent an internal email two days after the Aug. 8, 2022 raid expressing concern about the legal basis for the search.
Just the News reported that 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-a-Lago, warning that then-former President Donald Trump may have actually declassified the records seized by agents.
The outlet identified the official as Patty Stemler, a decades-long DOJ veteran who was reportedly picked by Garland in 2022 to help consult on Trump-related cases.
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