Top DOJ Lawyers Email Reveals Even Garlands

You knew when the Mar-a-Lago raid went down in August 2022 that one thing was rotten in Denmark. You need over 30 armed brokers to raid a former president’s home over a categorised paperwork dispute? Please.

We reported in December 2025 how many FBI brokers didn’t consider there was possible trigger for the banana republic-style motion — and forwarded their issues to former Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice — but the greenlight was given anyway.

Now, Just the News is reporting that a top Justice Department official and “key ally” of Merrick Garland also cried foul and questioned the legality of the raid. It appears that everybody knew it was ethically and legally doubtful, but Biden’s assault canine didn’t care about such minutiae:

Patty Stemler, a decades-long DOJ veteran who was reportedly picked by Garland in 2022 to help seek the advice of on Trump-related circumstances, despatched an e-mail just two days after the bureau’s Aug. 8, 2022 raid of Trump’s Florida resort home, where Stemler said she had “a few concerns.”

Stemler despatched the e-mail to Sophia Brill, a future Biden White House lawyer and then an attorney inside DOJ’s National Security Division, which performed a central function in this anti-Trump inquiry.

The memo was just lately unearthed by the DOJ as they examine the weaponization of law enforcement under the Biden regime, according to the report. It looks like Stemler had more than just “concerns” — to me, it reads like she’s flat-out calling it an unlawful search:

“I didn’t know about this search in advance, but I have been worrying about it ever since and worrying more now,” Stemler wrote to Brill on Aug. 10, 2022. “Doesn’t Trump maintain that he had the authority to declassify documents while he was still President?

“Has anyone in NSD or OLC [Office of Legal Counsel] looked at that? I know we have procedures for declassifying, but is the President as Commander in Chief bound by those procedures? We also have procedures for granting pardons, but the President doesn’t have to follow them,” she added.

MORE: Bombshell Emails Reveal FBI Agents Did Not Believe They Had Probable Cause to Raid Mar-a-Lago

Have We Forgotten… So Quickly? (VIP)

Remember this?

Trump claimed that he had a standing order from his first term as president that declassified all documents at Mar-a-Lago.

Stemler worried whether releasing details about the FBI’s seizures would be “ethical”:

“I don’t know if we intend to charge anybody with respect to the categorised paperwork seized yesterday, but if we disclose that we discovered X categorised paperwork before we search an indictment, will that trench on any honest trial rights or violate the moral obligations of a prosecutor?” she wrote.

She continued:

I appear to recall that a prosecutor has some leeway to inform the public that we’ve got arrested the serial killer and seized from his home evidence that ties him to the murders for the aim of reassuring the public that they’re now protected. But aren’t there moral limits on what a prosecutor can say in any other case?

The Mar-a-Lago raid is a stain on our nation’s historical past and exhibits just how low Garland, Biden, and Co. have been prepared to go to “get” Orange Man Bad. Like the issues expressed by FBI brokers that there was no possible trigger for the invasion, this e-mail reveals that even those on the inside of the lawfare regime have been uncomfortable with a lot of what was going on.

And that would possible be because they knew it was unethical. 

Editor’s Note: The countless lawfare against Donald Trump was emblematic of the banana republic Biden regime.

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