Documents prove White House behind entire FBI targeting of Trump?

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The day after FBI agents searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, reporters asked the White House whether President Joe Biden had advance information about the search. "No. The president was not briefed, did not — was not aware of it. No," press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responded. "No one at the White House was given a heads up. No, that did not happen." Now, some conservative pundits are suggesting a letter from the National Archives shows Biden not only knew about the raid but his administration was steering the investigation from the beginning. "BOMBSHELL," read the caption on an Aug. 24 Facebook video posted by Benny Johnson, a conservative commentator and frequent Biden critic. "Documents PROVE White House behind ENTIRE FBI targeting Trump. Biden LIED!?" Johnson went on in the video to misleadingly claim that the information revealed in the video shows "the White House ordered this raid." The post, which included a video clip from Fox News, was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) A close look at the document at this claim’s center shows no such thing. There is no evidence the Biden administration initiated the probe nor that Biden "lied" about his foreknowledge of the investigation or the Mar-a-Lago search. (This story goes back and forth, Biden knew, Biden didn't know. Read the whole report here.) https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/31/facebook-posts/document-doesnt-prove-biden-lied-about-mar-lago-pr/