Kash Patel says FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago had no 'constitutional basis', vows to hold bureau accountable

WASHINGTON, DC: FBI Director Kash Patel, speaking Wednesday on Fox Business, declared that the Bureau’s 2022 raid of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate had “no constitutional basis” and was the product of years of political weaponization inside federal law enforcement.

In an interview with host Larry Kudlow, Patel said he is actively working to dismantle the remnants of what he described as the FBI’s former leadership structure responsible for partisan-driven investigations.

Kash Patel says his attention is now on two primary actions to hold FBI accountable

FBI Director Kash Patel says Mar-a-Lago raid lacked constitutional authority.

“Once we rid, and that’s what we’re doing here at the FBI, ridding this place of its former leadership structure that did that weaponization, and we’re giving accountability to the American people,” Patel explained, adding, “As you highlighted, myself, Director Ratcliffe, and others in the intelligence community, are declassifying documents at a great rate to publicize what we’re finding. So the American public can read it for themselves.”

Patel directly accused both the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) of serving as political instruments under Democratic administrations, beginning during the Obama years and extending through the Biden presidency.

“It was a total weaponization and politicization by the FBI and DOJ and the Biden administration, dating back to the Obama administration, that led not only to Russiagate, as you opened up with, but to the invasion of Donald Trump’s private home in Mar-a-Lago,” Patel asserted. He argued that the raid to recover classified documents Trump allegedly retained after leaving the White House in January 2021 was unsupported by law.

“There was no constitutional basis to do so. There was no lawful predicate to open that investigation,” Patel said. “But once you let the politicians run the FBI and DOJ and weaponize it against their political opponents, like they have done for years against Donald Trump, back to Russiagate and to his home, we are now showing and exposing, again, the weaponization.”

Questions over White House involvement in raid

At the time of the August 2022 operation, Biden administration officials publicly maintained they were not aware of the FBI’s plan. However, documents released in 2023 by the legal group America First Legal (AFL) suggest otherwise.

According to AFL, internal emails revealed that the Department of Justice made a “special access request” through the White House Counsel’s Office to review Trump’s records. This coordination, the group claims, indicates the administration may have been more directly involved than it admitted and could have played a role in creating “a pretext for the law enforcement raid.”

Patel said exposing these connections is essential to restoring trust. “The American people need to see how their government has been used against them,” he said.

Biden administration aides reportedly claimed they were surprised by the FBI’s 2022 raid on Mar-a-Lago, but internal emails released in 2023 by America First Legal (AFL) show the DOJ made a “special access request” through the Biden White House to review Trump’s documents. This coordination suggests the White House and DOJ may have worked together to obtain the records and “perhaps create a pretext for the law enforcement raid,” according to AFL.

Internet reacts after Kash Patel confirms there was no predicate for Mar-a-Lago raid on Trump

Social media erupted after Kash Patel claimed that there was “no predicate” for the FBI’s 2022 raid on President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

The remark has fueled intense online debate, with many users demanding accountability.

One user wrote, “Of course we knew this, but now we have proof of it. And it’s time for arrests.”

Another wrote, “We knew this! How are there no consequences for people who break the rules and abuse the FBI?”

Calls for justice dominated the conversation. “Seriously, what’s the holdup? You have evidence to show they broke the law and abused their power. Time to charge them,” one user demanded.

Others voiced skepticism about whether anything would change. “OK good, now what will the repercussions be? I’m tired of hearing about corruption and then nothing is done. ACCOUNTABILITY!”

One wrote, “This has been completely proven for years. The delays are unacceptable. Your adherence to broken processes is just weakness and we are sick of it. Send men with guns to arrest them, televised it, and do what you have to do to make sure they never see the light of day again.”

Another penned, “If there was no predicate then they lied to the courts to get the warrant. Someone needs to be held accountable.”

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