President Joe Biden said on Aug. 24 that he did not know of the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s resort until after it happened.
“I didn’t have any advance notice. None. Zero. Not one single bit,” Biden told reporters during an unrelated press conference in Washington.
The White House previously said that Biden did not know of the raid ahead of time, but it’s the first time the president has commented on any aspect of the matter himself.
FBI agents executed a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida on Aug. 8.
White House officials have claimed that the Department of Justice acts independently, though a letter released this week shows that the White House backed the department’s efforts to obtain records transferred from Mar-a-Lago to the National Archives and Records Administration earlier this year….