Trump administration aide Kash Patel said he believes the Department of Justice targeted former President Donald Trump’s Florida home because of his possible 2024 ambitions.
”They want President Trump to not announce his candidacy for president, and that’s the end goal,” Patel, a National Security Council official under Trump, said in a Tuesday interview with Newsmax. ”Whether [it’s] through some form of impeachment or some criminal charge or a fake news disinformation campaign by the radical left-wing mafia, then that’s just as good to them.”
If Trump “wasn’t shut down by Russiagate, Jan. 6, [impeachment] one, impeachment two, Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton email scandal, Ukraine phone calls, then this certainly isn’t going to stop him,” Patel remarked of the raid, adding that he believes new documents released this week reveal that high-ranking officials within the Biden administration knew about the raid beforehand….