The Biden administration’s raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate may have been driven by a deeper motive than previously reported, according to Devin Nunes, chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.
Speaking on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, Nunes said newly declassified documents point to the possibility that the FBI raid in August 2022 was aimed at recovering materials tied to the now-discredited Trump-Russia investigation known as Crossfire Hurricane.
The raid, carried out by federal agents at Trump’s Florida home, was initially presented to the public as part of a criminal probe into the former president’s handling of classified documents.
Nunes stated that intelligence tied to the 2016 election may have been the real target, however.
“Whatever they were looking for, they clearly couldn’t find,” Nunes said.
“They were trying to stop President Trump from being reelected.”
Nunes pointed to the recent declassification of a 45-page report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
He said this report had been withheld from public view for years, despite its significance.
The report allegedly contradicts the long-promoted narrative that Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to help Donald Trump win the presidency in 2016.
“We went through every single