(Tony Sifert, Headline USA) ABC News has confirmed that the FBI’s unprecedented raid on President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate — ostensibly done in search of classified material — was all about covering up the deep state’s role in concocting and perpetuating the Russia-gate hoax.
Immediately after Trump appointed former Department of Defense official Kash Patel and Just The News editor John Solomon to handle his relations with the National Archives and Records Administration, both men promised to publish formerly classified documents on the Internet for the public to view.
“John Solomon and Kash Patel . . . will work to make available to the American people previously declassified documents that reveal a clear conspiracy to unlawfully spy on candidate and then President Donald J. Trump — by the FBI, DOJ, and others — the largest state-sponsored criminality in American history,” Trump spokesperson Liz Harrington told Poilitico at the time.
ABC reported that Patel was involved in a dispute with a White House lawyer who attempted to prevent President Trump from declassifying Russia-gate materials that were subsequently sent to the National Archives.
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 12, 2022
In a June podcast, Patel said that he had the president’s mandate to retrieve and publish those documents.
“I’m going to identify every single document that they blocked from being declassified at the National Archives, and we’re going to start putting that information out next week,” he said.
Deep-state officials interviewed by ABC attempted to put out the fire.
“[Patel] is lashing out at the bureaucracy, but it’s that bureaucracy and those protocols that are in place to prevent damage to our national security by an inappropriate disclosure of national security information,” John Cohen, a former Department of Homeland Security official, told ABC.
“I can’t stress how important those protocols are,” he continued.
“For everyone who has a clearance, it is ingrained in your brain that even an inadvertent disclosure of top secret information could cause great harm to national security.”
