China News Service, August 25th. According to comprehensive US media reports, in response to the FBI raid on former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago manor on August 8, US President Biden said on the 24th local time, He was unaware of the operation before it was carried out.
"I had no prior notice"
"I didn't get any advance notice," Biden said. "No, not at all."
The US media”USA Today” pointed out that this is the first time Biden has made public comments on the search operation.
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The White House has reportedly repeatedly said that Biden "just like the American people" learned of the FBI raid on Trump's private residence through public reports, and stressed that Biden will work to make the Justice Department's investigation "political-free."
"The Justice Department conducts its investigations independently, and we leave all law enforcement to them," White House press secretary Karin Jean-Pierre told reporters on Aug. 9.
Biden "wasn't briefed and didn't know about it," she said.
Really don't know?
Fox News reported that a newly exposed government letter recently revealed that the Biden-led White House, at the request of the Justice Department, agreed to let the FBI and intelligence services review hundreds of pages Trump handed over to the U.S. National Archives this spring secret document.
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On May 10, the head of the archives wrote a letter to Trump's lawyers, revealing that U.S. federal officials had spoken to the Trump team about whether federal law enforcement and intelligence officials should be allowed to conduct national security reviews, or whether they should The protection of the material under Trump's so-called executive privilege claim has been negotiated for months.
The letter states that the Biden administration believes it is impossible for a former president to exercise executive privilege over material that must be turned over to the archives under the law.
The letter also noted that the Archives identified items that were marked as classified national security information, up to a top secret level.
"The Archives notified the DOJ of this discovery, which prompted the DOJ to request the President to request that the Archives provide the FBI with access to relevant documents so that the FBI and others in the intelligence community could examine it."
A court filing made public on Aug. 12 shows that the FBI seized 11 sets of classified documents during a raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on Aug. 8, some of which were marked as "top secret" or "sensitive." Quarantine Information".
Trump filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to block the Justice Department from "further reviewing" material seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate until a "special master" is appointed to oversee the review.
However, the U.S. magistrate believed that the legal arguments and arguments of the indictment submitted by Trump were insufficient and asked him to further improve it before the 26th.