Bombshell Declassified FBI Document Blows Up Everything We Ever Heard About Russ

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Bombshell Declassified FBI Document Blows Up Everything We Ever Heard About Russiagate

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/08/05/bombshell-declassified-fbi-document-blows-up-everything-we-were-told-about-russiagate-n4955835

For years, Democrats and their media allies swore up and down that the FBI's investigation of Donald Trump was a serious national security investigation, launched only because of grave concerns about Russian collusion. Newly declassified FBI records tell a different story. It turns out that the bureau formally opened its full counterintelligence investigation into Trump back in 2017, and used his firing of FBI Director James Comey as the justification.

The president exercised his constitutional authority to fire an FBI director, and the FBI responded by opening a counterintelligence investigation into him.

The key document is a declassified FBI "Opening Electronic Communication," dated May 16, 2017, exactly one week after Trump fired Comey on May 9. It authorized a full investigation into the sitting president of the United States under the codename "Oxferd Comma." No, that's not a typo. Don’t ask me why it’s spelled that way.

"The FBI is opening a full investigation based on an articulable factual basis that reasonably indicates that President Donald J. Trump may be or has been, wittingly or unwittingly, involved in activities for or on behalf of the Government of the Russian Federation which may constitute violations of federal criminal law or threats to the national security of the United States," the document reads.

The stated goal was to determine "if President Trump is or was directed by, controlled by, and/or coordinated activities with, the Russian Federation in a manner constituting a threat to the national security of the United States and/or a violation of federal criminal statutes." The same document reveals that investigators were also examining Trump for possible obstruction of justice.

So what was the "articulable factual basis" for treating a duly elected president as a suspected Russian asset? Trump's conversations with Comey. The document claims Trump "sought Comey's personal loyalty" and "asked Comey to publicize the fact that the President was not the subject of an FBI investigation." It also states that Trump "asked Comey to do what he could to resolve the investigations."

That's it. That's the smoking gun. A president asked why the FBI wouldn't publicly admit what it privately told him, that he wasn't under investigation, and the bureau treated the question as evidence of a Kremlin conspiracy.

Investigations are supposed to be based on evidence, not fishing expeditions to see if any evidence exists.

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Biden's 'weaponized' Mar-a-Lago raid slammed by White House as declassified docs reveal FBI's legal doubts

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-weaponized-mar-a-lago-raid-slammed-white-house-declassified-docs-reveal-fbis-legal-doubts

The White House ripped Joe Biden after documents declassified by President Donald Trump on Monday revealed internal strife between the former president's Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI's Washington Field Office (WFO) before carrying out a raid on Mar-a-Lago in 2022.

In the months leading up to the raid, internal emails between FBI agents in the field office expressed frustration that the DOJ, led by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland, was unresponsive to their requests and unwilling to consider alternative options to raiding Trump's estate in Palm Beach, Florida a year-and-a-half after he left office after his first term.
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"Spying on political opponents is weaponization of law enforcement, plain and simple," the White House said Tuesday. "This is further proof the Biden administration weaponized the DOJ to target political opponents. Those responsible must be held accountable."
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An internal email from July 13, 2022, less than a month before the raid, the assistant special agent in charge of the WFO said flatly that the FBI didn't believe there was probable cause for the raid.

"WFO does not believe (and has articulated to DOJ CES), that we have established probable cause for the search warrant at Mar a Lago. DOJ has opined that they do, requesting the a wide scope including residence, office, storage space," that email says.
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The agent annoyedly continued by implying that the DOJ wasn't interested in recovering the allegedly mishandled classified documents, intimating that there may have been an ulterior motive.

"Finally, if the goal is to identify and recover classified records quickly, so as to protect the information, the 5 weeks spent fixated on probable cause for a search warrant have been counterproductive," the email said.

Garland and his minions did not give a @#$% about recovering the documents. Their purpose, first and foremost, was a very public spectacle in which the Trump family would be humiliated (demonstrated by Melania's lingerie being searched ... seriously, could even a single sheet of paper be concealed within her ____?) and a show trial.