Kash Patel

The discovery by FBI Director Kash Patel of a room where the bureau under Joe Biden at “hidden” evidence from sight of both the public and Congress could spur his announced investigation into the weaponization of the government against President Donald Trump.

Trump has been targeted before and during his first term, and then between his terms, by Democrat lawfare that often used the power of the government against him. For example, the SWAT team raid on his Mar-a-Lago home when the actual dispute was over custody of presidential papers – hardly a threat to life and limb.

A report at the Gateway Pundit explained, “According to a report by JustTheNews, Barack Obama, John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, and other high-level Obama-era operatives have been named in the investigation, which shows a coordinated criminal conspiracy to target political enemies, shield Democrat allies, and manipulate multiple presidential elections — from 2016 through 2024. But it gets better: The probe may now shift jurisdiction to Florida — thanks to none other than Special Counsel Jack Smith’s own raid on Mar-a-Lago.”

Just the News said the investigation is being “cheered by lawmakers” and could be helped by Patel’s recent revelation about the discovery “of a room where the bureau had ‘hidden’ evidence from public and congressional view.”

On a podcast with Joe Rogan, Patel called it a “vault” or “lockbox.”

“The discovery that the FBI stashed away evidence in politically hot probes like Russiagate could help prosecutors convince a grand jury that government officials were engaged in a coverup or an effort to deprive civil liberties, experts said,” according to the report.

“And while the discovery of the evidence vault and the emergence of the conspiracy probe are shrouded in some secrecy, their existence has buoyed Republicans in Congress who long believed prosecution of government actors behind scandals like Russiagate and Biden family corruption was warranted.”

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said, “They put America through unbelievable, really historic political turmoil, knowing that the entire narrative was completely false. I felt these people were criminals for many years now. I mean, the fact that they knew this…the whole Russiagate was a conspiracy hatched by the Clinton campaign back in 2016. President Obama was briefed on that. I mean, they all knew.”

In fact, Russiagate was created when Hillary Clinton apparently wanted to divert the public’s attention away from her own scandal, in which she put government secrets on an unsecured computer server in her home. Her campaign worked with a legal team, an “opposition research” organization, foreigners and more to fabricate claims about Trump’s 2016 campaign colluding with Russia, a claim for which there was no evidence.

Just this week, the FBI “quietly launched” a review of a decade of Deep State and Democratic Party activities, the report said, “ranging from ginning up the Trump-Russia collusion to examining special counsel Jack Smith’s pursuit of Trump.”

The result could end up being presentations to a grand jury about evidence of a criminal conspiracy to influence three straight presidential elections, against Trump.

The “grand conspiracy” case at the FBI, under way for only a few weeks, also could get a shot in the arm if Trump would declassify two “yet-classified troves of evidence that identify key pieces of the alleged conspiracy dating back to the summer of 2016,” the report said.

Patel said only weeks ago even then more Russiagate information was being discovered.

He blasted the Democrat agenda under Joe Biden: “That’s how vindictive and vicious the former leadership structure was. Not only did they bastardize the FISA process and lie to the American public, they withheld and hid documentation and put it in rooms where people weren’t supposed to look. And it’s a good thing that we’re here now to clean it up, and you’re about to see a wave of transparency.”

The two troves of details that remain secret include information added to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s probe of Hillary Clinton’s improper email server, and another cache attached to Special Counsel John Durham’s final report in 2023 about the DOJ’s probe of Russiagate.

Further, CIA Director John Ratcliffe already has dispatched a criminal referral to Patel related to possible crimes by Barack Obama’s CIA director, Brennan, the report explained.

Among the possible subjects for investigation are Brennan, Comey and Clapper.

Just the News noted, “All of this — combined with the secretive documents recently unearthed at the Hoover Building and brought to the attention of Patel — may provide guideposts for the newly-revealed FBI investigation. It will likely be up to Attorney General Pam Bondi to decide if a criminal prosecution — or a special prosecutor — is warranted.”

Patel has confirmed he has found a lot of documentation by those allegedly scheming against Trump at the time.

“These guys were so arrogant, they would write everything down. And I found the documents. They’re so arrogant, they think, ‘No one’s going to catch us. I’m going to write everything down. We’re going to put it in a lockbox, we’re going to put it in a vault, and no one’s going to find it.’ Well, you know what? I found the vault and now I’m going to work.”

Patel also noted there’s no statute of limitations if the investigation is into “an overarching conspiracy.”

Trump, on his first day in office, called for an end to the weaponization of government that had developed under Democrats.

“The American people have witnessed the previous administration engage in a systematic campaign against its perceived political opponents, weaponizing the legal force of numerous Federal law enforcement agencies and the Intelligence Community against those perceived political opponents in the form of investigations, prosecutions, civil enforcement actions, and other related actions. These actions appear oriented more toward inflicting political pain than toward pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives.”

Bondi, on taking office, issued a memo calling for a review of weaponization, and an end.

Bob Unruh

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is currently a news editor for the WND News Center, and also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially. Read more of Bob Unruh's articles here.

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