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Miranda Devine: Oh, absolutely, but I mean, it's not just revenge, it's accountability for the country.
So that this kind of targeted use of the Department of Justice and the FBI, for political purposes never happens again.
And we saw, you know, my colleague actually, Josh Christenson, has an update to that story, which is outrageous enough.
But he says that there are emails that Senator Chuck Grassley will be unveiling at some point, which show that there was coordination between the Biden White House, the Merrick Garland Department of Justice, and the National Archives and Records Administration, which was leading the push on trying to get these documents back.
And, you know, we know that the FBI field office, Washington, D.C. field office head, was a guy by the name of Steven D'Antuono, and he's by no means a Trump lover.
He led the January 6th investigations, but he pushed back very hard on the Department of Justice, on the prosecutors, particularly Jay Bratt, who is the prosecutor who was just going hell for leather, wanting to just create this circus, this affront to President Trump to humiliate him, to make him look like he was a criminal.
And Stephen D'Antuano, and Steven D'Antuono, from the FBI said, no, we don't need to do that.
President Trump's lawyers, attorneys are talking with us, are cooperating.
So there's no need to make this fuss.
And Jay Bratt went over his head to Christopher Wray, and Christopher Wray's deputy of the FBI, Paul Abbate, and they overruled the head of the Washington field office.
So the FBI was very reluctant in having to join in this raid.
It was pushed by the Department of Justice and the Biden White House.
And interestingly, at the end of this email conversation between them that went on for several months or several weeks, the White House says, "oh, let's take this conversation offline" because they were aware of how incriminating it looked.
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Stuart Varney: It did.
It did.