A newly obtained FBI memo confirms what Just the News reported back in 2022: former President Biden was directly involved in the chain of events that led to the FBI raid of President Trump's Mar-a-Lago property. The memo, obtained by JTN, lays out a coordination timeline between the Biden White House Counsel's office, the Department of Justice, and the FBI that preceded one of the most extraordinary law enforcement actions in American political history.

The memo's language is striking in its specificity. It ties the raid's execution to Biden's own decision-making:

"This event is dependent upon the timeline of President Biden's brief, decision and coordination between WH Counsel and DOJ, and in turn, Evan Corcoran's position on the override of privilege assertion and whether or not he seeks an injunction to prevent access."

According to Just The News, that is not the language of an investigation proceeding independently through normal channels. That is the language of an operation contingent on one president's willingness to strip another president's constitutional protections.

The Paper Trail Biden Hoped Would Stay Buried

JTN's original 2022 reporting established that the Biden White House had facilitated the DOJ's criminal probe against Trump. At the time, the story drew the predictable response from legacy media: silence, dismissal, or the suggestion that the reporting was overblown. The newly surfaced memo vindicates that original work point by point.

The details are damning in their simplicity:

• Then-White House Deputy Counsel Jonathan Su held conversations with the FBI, DOJ, and the National Archives as early as April, following the voluntary return of 15 boxes of classified documents and other materials.
• Su told the National Archives that Biden would not object to waiving his predecessor's claims to executive privilege.
• That waiver cleared the legal path for the DOJ to access documents that Trump's team argued were protected.

Consider the sequence. Trump voluntarily returned 15 boxes of materials. The Biden White House then moved behind the scenes to strip Trump's executive privilege claims. And the DOJ used that cooperation to build its criminal probe. This was not a dispassionate legal process. It was a coordinated political operation with the sitting president's fingerprints on the key decisions.

Executive Privilege as a One-Way Street

The concept of executive privilege exists to protect the presidency as an institution, not the individual who occupies it at any given moment. Every modern president has understood this because every modern president has recognized that the precedents they set will eventually apply to them.

Biden broke that norm deliberately. By waiving Trump's privilege claims, he weaponized a constitutional protection that exists for the benefit of the office itself. He turned a shield into a sword, and he aimed it squarely at his political predecessor and likely future opponent.

And note the asymmetry. When Biden's own classified documents surfaced in a garage in Wilmington and a Washington think tank office, the DOJ treated the matter with extraordinary deference. No raid. No pre-dawn operation. The double standard was visible to anyone willing to look.

What the Memo Tells Us About the System

The memo's reference to Evan Corcoran's "position on the override of privilege assertion" and whether he would "seek an injunction to prevent access" reveals something important about how this operation was planned. The FBI was gaming out legal resistance before it acted. It was mapping the obstacles and identifying the decision points that depended on Biden's cooperation. This was strategic planning, not neutral fact-finding.

A previous JTN report from 2022 had already established that the Biden White House facilitated the DOJ's criminal probe against Trump. The new memo doesn't merely corroborate that reporting. It shows the machinery in motion: the phone calls, the legal maneuvering, the careful sequencing of decisions designed to make the raid possible.

The American public was told, repeatedly, that the Biden White House had no involvement in the DOJ's actions against Trump. The memo tells a different story. The timeline tells a different story. The coordination between the White House Counsel's office and federal law enforcement tells a different story.

The Vindication of Early Reporting

Credit belongs to Just the News for getting this story right in 2022, when the institutional pressure to look away was immense. The outlets that ignored or dismissed that reporting now face a straightforward question: will they cover the confirmation, or will they pretend the memo doesn't exist?

The pattern is familiar. Inconvenient stories about the weaponization of federal agencies get dismissed as conspiracy theories until documentary evidence makes them undeniable. Then the conversation quietly shifts from "that didn't happen" to "it happened, but it was justified." The goalposts move, but the underlying facts remain.

This memo is one more piece of a larger picture that Americans have been assembling for years. A sitting president coordinated with federal law enforcement to pursue his political rival. The paper trail now confirms it in the government's own words.

Those words were never supposed to see daylight.