A newly surfaced FBI memo confirms what Just the News reported three years ago: the Biden White House was directly involved in the chain of events that led to the unprecedented FBI raid of President Trump's Mar-a-Lago property.
The memo, obtained by Just the News, lays out the coordination in plain bureaucratic language. It describes how the raid hinged on decisions made not by independent law enforcement, but by political actors inside the Biden White House.
"This event is dependent upon the timeline of President Biden's brief, decision and coordination between WH Counsel and DOJ, and in turn, Evan Corcoran's position on the override of privilege assertion and whether or not he seeks an injunction to prevent access."
Read that again. The FBI's own internal documentation treats the raid as "dependent upon" Biden's decision-making and the coordination between his White House Counsel and the Department of Justice. Not dependent on the evidence. Not dependent on a neutral assessment of legal risk. Dependent on Biden.
The memo corroborates a picture that Just the News began assembling in 2022, when few outlets had any interest in asking uncomfortable questions about who authorized the most politically explosive federal raid in modern American history, as Just The News reports.
That earlier JTN reporting revealed that then-White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su held conversations with the FBI, DOJ, and the National Archives as early as April, after the voluntary return of 15 boxes of classified documents and other materials. Su told the National Archives that Biden would not object to waiving his predecessor's claims to executive privilege, a move that cleared the path for the DOJ to access additional documents and build its criminal probe against Trump.
Consider the mechanics of that sequence:
Each step required the one before it. And the step that made everything else possible was a political decision made inside the Biden White House.
For years, the Biden administration and its allies in the press maintained a simple fiction: the Department of Justice operated independently, the White House had no involvement in the Trump investigations, and anyone who suggested otherwise was trafficking in conspiracy theories.
The FBI's own memo guts that narrative. You cannot describe a law enforcement action as "dependent upon" the sitting president's decisions and coordination with his counsel and simultaneously claim the White House had nothing to do with it. Those two things cannot both be true.
This was always the central contradiction. The same people who insisted the DOJ was a fortress of independence also insisted that Biden's decision to waive Trump's executive privilege was perfectly routine. But routine decisions don't require coordination timelines memorialized by the FBI. Routine decisions don't become the load-bearing wall of a criminal investigation into a former president who happens to be your chief political rival.
The memo's language is worth dwelling on. It does not describe a passive White House that was merely informed of DOJ's plans. It describes active coordination. White House Counsel is working with the DOJ. Biden's "brief" and "decision" serve as prerequisites. The FBI itself acknowledged that the entire operation turned on the president's choices.
This is what political weaponization looks like when it wears a suit. Not a phone call ordering agents to raid a rival. Something quieter. A deputy counsel is making calls. A privilege waiver that just happens to land at the perfect time. A memo that treats the president's involvement as a scheduling dependency rather than a constitutional crisis.
Credit where it's due: Just the News published this story when the rest of the press corps was busy writing valentines to the DOJ's supposed independence. The 2022 JTN report detailed the Su conversations, the privilege waiver, and the Biden White House's facilitation of the criminal probe. At the time, that reporting was largely ignored or dismissed.
Now the FBI's own paperwork says the same thing.
The outlets that spent years calling this a conspiracy theory owe their audiences a correction. They won't issue one. But the memo exists, and it says what it says.
The Mar-a-Lago raid was not a standalone event. It was the most visible manifestation of a pattern in which the machinery of federal law enforcement was turned against a political opponent with the direct involvement of the sitting president's staff. The FBI memo does not merely suggest this. It assumes it as an operational fact.
Every American, regardless of party, should be troubled by an FBI that treats a president's political decisions as the starting gun for a criminal investigation of his rival. The institutions that were supposed to serve as guardrails instead served as instruments.
The memo is now public. The coordination is no longer alleged. It is documented, in the FBI's own words, in the FBI's own files.
