Grassley: FBI's Double Standards with Trump Raid Exposes Need for Immediate Transparency

Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa appeared on Fox News with Neil Cavuto on Saturday. During the interview, Cavuto asked the ranking GOP member of the Senate Judiciary Committee for his thoughts regarding the release of the search warrant and the affidavit of probable cause that led to the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago.

The warrant was released with Trump’s agreement on Friday, but the affidavit has not been released.

Cavuto asked his guest if the affidavit should be released.

“Absolutely. [Attorney General Merrick] Garland goes on television because he wants to be transparent. Full transparency is going to be when they release the affidavit. And this is such a high profile and very strange way of going about getting documents from a former president that the affidavit is going to be absolutely necessary if we’re going to have full transparency. And this demands full transparency because without transparency government is not accountable. The public’s business must always be public,” Grassley told Cavuto.

Cavuto noted several past instances and investigations, particularly against Trump, where judges were provided false information to justify a search, and asked Grassley if this was another reason the American people should see the FBI’s affidavit.

“Carter Page’s FISA, the Steele dossier, how they handled the Clinton investigation and how they — there was no prosecution there and there was mishandling of classified information just like the same charge against President Trump,” Grassley intoned.

He went on to draw clear the clear disparities between how investigations targeting Trump versus those targeting Hillary Clinton and other Democrat figures and actions have been conducted, describing the evident contrast.

“So just figure: the double standard that we have within the FBI over a long period of time. Not just under Christopher Wray. And I have had enough investigation that has been recently reported by you folks, that there is political bias within the FBI, and I think it’s legitimate to raise the question about possible political bias between the way they handled the Clinton investigation, Carter Page, Steele dossier and the way President Trump has been treated. Particularly, when he has said continuously ‘If you want any more just come get it,” Grassley said.