Video: Top Trump official reveals new details on Biden FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago

Former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, suggested on Sunday that one of the reasons former President Joe Biden’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided President Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago in 2022 was to retrieve classified documents regarding the discredited investigation into Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia in the 2016 election.

During a Sunday interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Nunes addressed the Biden administration’s raid on Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago in August of 2022. 

“Whatever they were looking for, whatever scheme they had cooked up, whatever they were looking for, they didn’t find, clearly, but that was to try to stop President Trump from being reelected,” Nunes said.

Nunes told Bartiromo that he is “happy” the Trump administration’s Justice Department has launched a strike force to examine the evidence released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard regarding the Obama administration’s “treasonous conspiracy” to undermine Trump’s first term in the White House by falsely claiming that Trump and Russia colluded in the 2016 presidential election.

“As chairman of the President’s Intelligence Board, I’m going to try to get out as much of this information and get it declassified as possible,” Nunes said.

Asked by Bartiromo if he believed the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago because the Biden administration was “looking for the intelligence community assessment” regarding Russia’s alleged influence on the 2016 election, Nunes said, “I believe it had to be one of the things they were looking for.”

“That report is pretty damning if people take the time to read it,” Nunes continued. “It’s, you know, 45 pages. We had a dedicated team that spent nearly two years down at the CIA looking through this. It was blocked from getting out.” 

Nunes, who previously served as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, explained that after going through “every single piece of intelligence that existed,” the House Intelligence Committee determined that Trump and Russia did not collude during the 2016 election.

“If anything, it was clear that if Putin was going to do anything, he probably wanted Hillary Clinton to win,” Nunes told Bartiromo.

Trump suggested last week that former President Barack Obama “started” the conspiracy to undermine his first term in office with the Russian collusion probe. Trump also slammed Obama and his administration officials for engaging in “treason.”