{"id":1622993,"date":"2022-08-26T10:49:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1622993"},"modified":"2022-08-26T10:49:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:49:16","slug":"trump-administration-official-reveals-why-fbi-targeted-former-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-administration-official-reveals-why-fbi-targeted-former-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Official Reveals Why FBI Targeted Former President"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-administration-official-reveals-why-fbi-targeted-former-president%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1622993&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Trump administration aide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-kash-patel\">Kash Patel<\/a> said he believes the Department of Justice targeted former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s Florida home because of his possible 2024 ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThey want President Trump to not announce his candidacy for president, and that\u2019s the end goal,\u201d Patel, a\u00a0National Security Council official under Trump, said in a Tuesday interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsmax-tv\/newsmax-kash-patel-mar-a-lago-search\/2022\/08\/23\/id\/1084327\/\">Newsmax<\/a>. \u201dWhether [it\u2019s] through some form of impeachment or some criminal charge or a fake news disinformation campaign by the radical left-wing mafia, then that\u2019s just as good to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Trump \u201cwasn\u2019t shut down by Russiagate, Jan. 6, [impeachment] one, impeachment two, Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton email scandal, Ukraine phone calls, then this certainly isn\u2019t going to stop him,\u201d Patel remarked of the raid, adding that he believes new documents released this week reveal that high-ranking officials within the Biden administration knew about the raid beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and other administration officials say President Joe Biden had no knowledge of the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago until Trump\u2019s announcement of the raid on Aug. 8.<\/p>\n<p>While Patel did not elaborate, he noted that \u201cwhen I was a national security prosecutor working on high-level cases, we always informed the White House counsel\u2019s office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201dAnd lo and behold \u2026 we now see their own memorandum with the White House communicating to the Department of Justice about this investigation, about executive privilege, about waivers of attorney-client privilege, and Joe Biden weighing in personally,\u201d Patel told Newsmax, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_app\/biden-administration-asked-national-archives-to-let-fbi-access-boxes-from-mar-a-lago-letter_4682755.html\">citing a newly disclosed memo<\/a> about the matter.<\/p>\n<p> Declassification Order <\/p>\n<p>During the interview, the former Trump aide reiterated that the 45th president had a standing declassified order and had the capacity to declassify documents at will.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIf he says it\u2019s declassified, it\u2019s declassified,\u201d stated Patel,\u00a0who hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/c-kashs-corner\">\u201cKash\u2019s Corner\u201d for EpochTV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past weekend, he also told the Wall Street<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration aide Kash Patel said he believes the Department of Justice targeted former President Donald Trump\u2019s Florida home because of his possible 2024 ambitions. \u201dThey want President Trump to not announce his candidacy for president, and that\u2019s the end goal,\u201d Patel, a\u00a0National Security Council official under Trump, said in a Tuesday interview with Newsmax. 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