White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre admitted that the Biden administration wasn’t briefed on the FBI’s raid on former President Donald Trump’s private residence at Mar-a-Lago.
“Karine Jean-Pierre says not a single person in the White House — including Joe Biden himself — has been briefed on the Department of Justice raiding President Trump’s home,” RNC Research tweeted, referring to Jean-Pierre’s press briefing on Tuesday.
Karine Jean-Pierre says not a single person in the White House — including Joe Biden himself — has been briefed on the Department of Justice raiding President Trump’s home.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 29, 2022
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The unprecedented search of Trump’s home comes as the investigation into his time in office and private business escalates. Any search of a private residence would have to be approved by a judge after the investigating law enforcement agency demonstrated probable cause that the search was justified.
Jean-Pierre, however, has refused to comment on the search since last month — often answering “no comment” to press questions.
“The Justice Department conducts investigations independently, and we leave any law enforcement matters to them — It would not be appropriate for us to comment on any ongoing investigations,” she said days after the raid. “[Biden] believes in the rule of law, in the independence of justice department investigations that those investigations should be free from political influence and he has held that commitment as president.”
While it’s possible that no one in the White House — including President Joe Biden — has been informed of the search, it also points out that this administration is dangerously aloof on critical matters at home and abroad.
Biden is also refusing to talk with Israelis amid concerns over a possible nuclear deal between Iran and the U.S. Israel Prime Minister Yair Lapid reportedly requested a meeting with Biden during his visit to the U.S. next month but the president apparently never returned his calls.
As with the clown show that is the FBI’s raid, Trump and his legal team have already filed a motion last week seeking an independent review of the records seized by authorities.
“They demanded that the security cameras be turned off, a request we rightfully denied. They prevented my attorneys from observing what was being taken in the raid, saying ‘absolutely not,'” he said in a statement. “They took documents covered by attorney-client and executive privilege, which is not allowed. They took my passports. They even brought a ‘safe cracker’ and successfully broke into my personal safe, which revealed… nothing!”
