{"id":148930,"date":"2025-08-21T15:53:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=148930"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:53:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:53:32","slug":"kash-patel-cleans-house-invasion-of-mar-a-lago-caused-by-total-weaponization-of-fbi-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/kash-patel-cleans-house-invasion-of-mar-a-lago-caused-by-total-weaponization-of-fbi-doj\/","title":{"rendered":"Kash Patel cleans house: \u2018Invasion\u2019 of Mar-a-Lago caused by \u2018total weaponization\u2019 of FBI, DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"

by<\/em><\/span> WorldTribune<\/strong> Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span>, August 21, 2025 <\/em>Real World News<\/span><\/a>
\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Kash Patel has maintained a low profile since taking on the challenge of restoring the tarnished credibility of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n

Yesterday the new FBI director detailed actions taken against the former leadership he said was responsible for the \u201ctotal weaponization\u201d of the bureau.<\/p>\n

Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino dismissed several senior FBI officials last week who had worked on investigations involving President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. \/ Photo by Aude \/ Creative Commons \/ CC BY-SA 3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Patel specifically pointed to the Aug. 8, 2022 FBI raid of Trump’s Florida residence at Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a total weaponization and politicization by the FBI and DOJ and the Biden administration dating back to the Obama administration that led not only to Russiagate as you opened up with, but to the invasion of Donald Trump\u2019s private home in Mar-a-Lago,\u201d Patel told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery single person that has been found to have weaponized or participated in that process has been removed from leadership positions, and if and when we find any others that are involved in this, as you notice, in a 37,000-person agency, we are going to take swift action just like we have,\u201d Patel said.<\/p>\n

When asked by Kudlow why Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago residence was raided, Patel said he believed it was \u201ccreating a crime where one did not exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was made up, it was completely false, it was completely unconstitutional pursuant to our judicial courts,\u201d Patel said. \u201cWe know there was no reason. Now, it\u2019s time for accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among those sacked last week was special agent Walter Giardina, who in 2022 arrested Trump White House trade advisor Peter Navarro at a Washington airport on contempt of Congress charges. Navarro, then 74, served four months in prison for refusing to cooperate with the Democrat-controlled January 6 Select Committee.<\/p>\n

Navarro at the time called Giardina and another special agent \u201ckind Nazis.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his termination letter to Giardina, Patel wrote that the special agent \u201cexercised poor judgement and a lack of impartiality in carrying out duties, leading to the political weaponization of the government.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also fired was Christopher Meyer, a former pilot in the FBI\u2019s Special Flight Operations Unit who regularly flew Patel on an FBI plane. Prior to Meyer\u2019s firing, a former special agent, Kyle Seraphin \u2014 a member of \u201cThe Suspendables,\u201d a group of ex-agents who say they were punished by the bureau for conservative views \u2014 claimed he spoke with a Trump administration official about Meyer\u2019s involvement in the FBI\u2019s Mar-a-Lago classified documents investigation and other cases.<\/p>\n

An attorney for Meyer told CBS News that the former special agent was involved in the FBI\u2019s January 6 investigation but not in the Mar-a-Lago documents search.<\/p>\n

Also shown the door was the former acting FBI director, Brian Driscoll, who resisted helping a former acting deputy attorney general, Emil Bove, in identifying those FBI employees who were involved in the J6 investigation and declined to dismiss eight senior executives on the DOJ’s urging. Driscoll remained in the FBI after Patel\u2019s confirmation, taking on a new role as head of the FBI\u2019s Critical Incident Response Group.<\/p>\n

On August 4, Driscoll refused to fire Meyer on Patel\u2019s orders because \u201che did not get what he considered a satisfactory answer from Patel\u201d on the reasons for Meyer\u2019s dismissal, according to CBS News.<\/p>\n

Driscoll was eventually dismissed by the FBI associate deputy director, J. William Rivers, though reportedly was not given a reason why.<\/p>\n

In January, a deputy assistant attorney general, George Toscas, who pushed for the Mar-a-Lago raid despite concerns from FBI agents that doing so was risky, was reassigned to the DOJ\u2019s Office of Sanctuary Cities Enforcement.<\/p>\n

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