“More proof of collaboration between Biden White House and NARA to concoct a case,” writes reporter Julie Kelly.
Unredacted documents released by Judge Aileen Cannon in former President Donald Trump’s “classified documents” case reveal the extent of collusion between the Biden administration, the DOJ, and special counsel Jack Smith to “concoct” the case.
The records also appear to confirm, contrary to media reporting, that Trump was telling the truth when he said his team was still negotiating chain of custody with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) when they suddenly lodged a criminal referral in Feb. 2022.
“Thanks to order by Judge Cannon, key evidence related to classified docs case is now unredacted,” reporter Julie Kelly posted on X Monday.
“On the left: What DOJ/Jack Smith wanted to conceal. On the right: Now we know why. More proof of collaboration btw Biden White House and NARA to concoct a case.”
NEW: Thanks to order by Judge Cannon, key evidence related to classified docs case is now unredacted.
On the left: What DOJ/Jack Smith wanted to conceal.
On the right: Now we know why. More proof of collaboration btw Biden White House and NARA to concoct a case. pic.twitter.com/YVHVmAfOai
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024
The documents without the blackout markings show the convoluted effort by Biden’s DOJ in conjunction with NARA’s National Archivist David Ferriero to halt normal negotiations with Trump’s team and instead launch an unprecedented criminal investigation.
They show that in May 2021, just months after Trump left office, NARA General Counsel Gary Stern admitted to Ferriero that “things were very chaotic, as they always are in the course of a one-term transition” and that the “transfer of the Trump electronic records is still ongoing and won’t be completed for several more months.”
But by June 2021, Ferriero told Trump’s team that he was “out of patience.”
The unredacted records also reveal NARA was working with the Biden DOJ to craft a criminal referral in September 2021, five months before NARA’s “official” referral to the DOJ in February 2022.
That criminal referral was predicated on Ferriero’s assumption that “alleged — and non-existent — ’24 boxes’ of records ‘have been destroyed.’”
“The Biden White House and DOJ were [sic] intimately involved in developing a criminal case against Trump for records mismanagement–it appears the first go-around related to alleged “destruction” of government papers,” Kelly wrote.
Outrageous lies by Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and DOJ/Jack Smith about “independence” from investigations into Trump.
The Biden White House and DOJ wew intimately involved in developing a criminal case against Trump for records mismanagement–it appears the… pic.twitter.com/UhHPtRkVlR
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024
Kelly also highlighted that the records reveal the DOJ told NARA “how to cover its tracks” in a complex bureaucratic runaround.
Now you know why the insiders like Andrew Weissmann and Barb McQuade are desperate to get rid of Judge Cannon. Without her courage on this matter, incriminating evidence of Biden’s WH and DOJ running the investigative show behind the scenes would be buried maybe forever.
DOJ… pic.twitter.com/3BEFpUC6Ah
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 22, 2024
Meanwhile, recent polling shows most Americans are now wise to the government’s lawfare tactics against Trump, believing the cases against him are “politically motivated witch hunts” to derail his 2024 presidential election run.
