They Had Nothing: Christina Bobb
The Mar-a-Lago story the FBI never wanted told
By Kelly Walker
Christina Bobb was there when the FBI rolled up to Mar-a-Lago raid on August 8, 2022, to rifle through President Trump’s personal residence, searching for “evidence” that proved to be absent.
Then, as now, Christina Bobb was defiant.
Hence the name of Bobb’s latest book, Defiant: Inside the Mar-a-Lago Raid and the Left’s Ongoing Lawfare, which details the coordinated lawfare and political attacks against Donald Trump and his allies, through deep-state efforts to undermine his ability to hold office.
Trump had already left Florida for the summer, leaving Bobb as his on-site legal representative present during the search. When she arrived the morning of the ordeal, the raid was already underway. FBI and DOJ personnel had entered in unmarked vehicles without lights or sirens—purposely low-key—while Secret Service agents accompanied them through the property.
According to Bobb, agents initially refused to provide her with a search warrant, forcing her to argue with them until they finally turned it over. They then confined her to Mar-a-Lago’s circular driveway, preventing her from observing as they searched Trump’s office, storage area and private living quarters—including, according to Melania Trump, the former first lady’s personal drawers.
“I was going crazy, yelling at them all, saying, ‘What are you doing here!? This is illegal. You need to be leaving,’” Bobb recalled. When agents assured her that they were trying to conduct the search calmly and professionally, she fired back: “What do you mean, calm and professional? You’re raiding the home of a President of the United States!”
Perhaps most revealing, Bobb told Dangerous Laughter host A.J. Rice, was how uncharacteristically quietly the operation unfolded. There were no television cameras waiting outside, there was no official announcement from the FBI or Justice Department and apparently no communications plan for the inevitable public reaction. Trump himself disclosed the raid that evening on Truth Social, after it had ended. Attorney General Merrick Garland waited three days before appearing publicly to acknowledge that he had authorized it—then took no questions.
That understated approach suggested to Bobb that the government never expected Trump to tell the public what had happened. “I personally think they never intended the raid to become public,” she said in her Dangerous Laughter interview. “I think they thought they could do this in private—that the president would keep it secret because it looks really bad for him that he’s being raided—and they could just pick and choose what they want to do and then later say that they raided Mar-a-Lago.”
Perhaps they didn’t know the Donald J. Trump his base knows—a man who’s very difficult if not impossible to silence. But Trump pulled that card and beat them at the game by being completely transparent and turning the PR tables.
According to Bobb, the Justice Department’s secrecy concealed an even deeper problem: They had nothing, and they knew it going in. The investigation was built for Washington, D.C.—the grand jury, prosecutors and investigative team were all there—yet even after searching Trump’s home, agents failed to uncover the evidence needed to bring the case they wanted. Once Trump made the raid public, however, the whole world was asking the obvious question: Why did the FBI raid Mar-a-Lago? Suddenly, the Justice Department had to justify an extraordinary action it apparently never expected to defend in real time.
“They did not find anything after the raid,” Bobb told Rice. “And so, the whole world is looking at them: ‘Why did you raid Mar-a-Lago?’ And they had to go, ‘Oh, shoot, we don’t have anything.’”
But now the world knew the raid had happened, and the Justice Department needed a case to justify it. Bobb contends that when prosecutors couldn’t make their intended Washington case stick, they shifted gears and brought the prosecution into the Southern District of Florida—recasting what had been pursued as a national-security matter into an obstruction case arising from events at Mar-a-Lago.
In Bobb’s telling, that explains both the secrecy surrounding the operation and the government’s halting response after Trump exposed it. There were no cameras, no announcement and no prepared public explanation. Attorney General Merrick Garland waited three days before stepping to the microphone, accepting responsibility in a brief statement and leaving without taking questions. Trump’s transparency had forced the Justice Department out of the shadows and saddled them with publicly defending a raid Bobb maintains never produced the case they went there to find.
“It’s unprecedented,” Rice added, “It will ring down through the ages—not just that it happened—but because it was planned, it was phony…there was a conspiracy to unload this.”
The indictment named 39 different types of obstruction of justice, which Bobb says is indicative of a Department of Justice “so used to manufacturing whatever type of criminal conspiracy they want to because they have basically unlimited resources and incredible power.”
Unfortunately, the government’s immense, largely unchecked power to target political opponents was not reserved for a former president. As Bobb pointed out, that the same machinery turned against everyday Americans—January 6 defendants, alternate electors, farmers, small-business owners and citizens who lacked Trump’s money, platform and army of attorneys.
I would add the weaponization against concerned school parents like me to that list. Under Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Justice Department mobilized federal law-enforcement resources in response to parents who spoke out at school-board meetings—after the National School Boards Association portrayed some of those protests as potential “domestic terrorism.” Parents exercising their First Amendment rights suddenly found themselves viewed through the lens of federal law enforcement, intimidating not only those who spoke but countless others into silence.
For many, the process itself became the punishment. A person need not be convicted—or even formally charged—to have a life dismantled by years of investigation, surveillance, litigation and public suspicion. Legal bills accumulated, businesses and careers were destroyed, reputations were poisoned, relationships fractured and families were left to carry the psychological weight of being treated as enemies of their own government. Trump possessed the resources and platform to fight back publicly, but most targeted Americans did not…and their nightmare continues.
The Trump administration attempted to provide a measure of restitution through a $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund. Announced by the Justice Department in May 2026, the program was intended to allow people harmed by federal lawfare or political targeting to submit claims for monetary relief and formal apologies. There was no partisan requirement to apply, and unspent money was to return to the federal government. Bobb viewed it as a long-overdue lifeline for Americans who had been financially and personally devastated by a federal government with virtually unlimited resources.
But the fund was killed by one of the most breathtakingly hypocritical examples of self-dealing in congressional history. When hundreds of Americans were swept into the sprawling Arctic Frost investigation, Congress offered them no comparable remedy. Senators did, however, insert a provision into a must-pass spending bill allowing senators—and only senators—to sue the federal government for at least $500,000 per violation if investigators secretly obtained their phone records. Eight Republican senators stood to benefit immediately, while House members, Trump associates and other citizens caught in the same investigation were excluded.
Although the House voted unanimously to repeal the special provision, the Senate—led by Lindsey Graham—initially blocked its removal, preserving lawmakers’ exclusive “right” to seek taxpayer-funded damages for several more months. Public outrage ultimately forced Congress to repeal the payout provision in February 2026—but not before senators had revealed their willingness to create a remedy for themselves that they had denied to hundreds of other Americans caught in the same investigation.
Having secured special protections for themselves, senators then objected when the Trump administration created a fund to compensate ordinary Americans without first consulting them. They raised concerns about its authority, oversight and potential beneficiaries, but the underlying offense, Bobb contended, was that the president had acted without giving them control over the process.
Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis ultimately used Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general as leverage, withholding their support until the Justice Department formally rescinded the fund on August 2, 2026—shortly after Bobb recorded this interview. No members had been appointed, no money transferred and no claims processed. Senators had recognized the injustice of government weaponization when they were its targets—and reserved compensation for themselves—only to help deny that same relief to everyone else.
All of this, and what Bobb bravely exposes in Defiant highlights our nation’s need for people like her who are willing to stand up against the Deep State and Uniparty’s thuggery and targeting of American, from President Trump to school parents and election critics.
As Bobb points out—and as I personally experienced and later uncovered through FOIA-obtained records—Merrick Garland directed the DOJ, over the objections of some of its own attorneys, to find a “federal hook” for targeting parents and trampling their First Amendment rights. The DOJ apparently cares little whether probable cause exists. And, as Bobb warns, “they’re still trying.”
“I would define lawfare as the use of the court system, the use of our justice system, for a purpose other than the stated purpose of the case. So, you wanna bring criminal charges against Donald Trump, the purpose of the case is not actually to bring charges against the President, it’s not to enforce the law and ensure good order and discipline. The purpose of it is to defame him in order to cause him to lose the election.”
And Bobb agrees with the certainty of many that the Democrats and administrative machine want to seize power back and continue trying to take down the President and his supporters.
“The reason it’s relevant now is because we’ve got midterms coming up and they are trying to manufacture more crimes against the president, against his cabinet. They’re doing the same thing.”
When asked by Rice for a word of advice as the interview concluded, she responded, “On the lawfare front, I would just say be skeptical of everything. Be skeptical of everything you’re seeing on either side…keep an open mind, but test everything because both sides are playing games.
Kelly John Walker is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of FreedomTalk: The Journal of Truth & Virtue, and a nationally recognized communications and creative strategy consultant. His writing has appeared in The Washington Times, The Epoch Times, Gateway Pundit, Andrew Magazine, Newsmax, Townhall, and other national outlets. A frequent commentator and guest on leading conservative programs, Walker is known for his work in journalism, strategic communications, branding, advertising, and public affairs.
Obama wanted to know what corruption evidence Trump had on him, so he told his puppets to raid Trump's home.
…..pretty sick that the rest of the GOP stood by and did nothing to stop them, still arent doing anything!
Do you really think that the GOP cares about it's constituents? Their only concern is keeping the grift going.
Awe come on , republicans are puzzies they never follow through on threats not like corrupt democrats
Great informative article.
Trumps continuous support from Graham is very telling and very sad. Consistent with promises galore, talk-talk-talk, but basically nothing other than crumbs…
Add McConnell and Thune to that not so great group.
“They Had Nothing” That was obvious from the start and why they had to manufacture incriminating photos and evidence.
The irony is it was Joe Biden who was found to have unauthorized highly classified documents when he shouldn’t have and having stored them in an outrageously careless manner to boot. Nothing happened to him at all. It was determined he was too old and stupid to know what the hell he was doing.
Mega up votes.
you are spot on ,, , when does stupidity excuse you from being prosecuted … . the crimes committed are so blatant and open . . idiot bidet and lacky garband and all should been sitting in a court and convicted ..
save that picture of the FBI standing guard at the gate of the home of a former President of the United States as they raid his home and go through his wife's underwear drawer.
When America was run by the Marxists.
Who serve the City of London. Commies are pawns….like Jihadists and others.
When in power the Democrats act like Nazis. Maybe that is because they are?
Nazis…..who have always been in bed with Imperialists…..as they both trace back to the Roman Empire.
How many times do we get to hear this? They had nothing, it was a banana republic political hit. And nothing is done about it. No repercussions. A toothless Administration, a gutless Congress and a clueless population.
One word… Uniparty.
And you ain't invited!
Wow, how bad is it getting? This really is not good.
And Trump's Justice Department is doing nothing about it.
That's because Trump did not clean out the DOJ when he came in the second time. HE SHOULD HAVE. He left in place the pukes from the previous liberal pinko commie administrations. ANYBODY who was put into place under Barry Hussein and/or fakey "president" Xiden should have lost his job.
And the trump Admin has not cleaned house in the US Army or the Pentagon, and so the far left commie worms actively block and undermine Trump's policies. And his appointees seem unable or unwilling to fire people and bring in new people who will actually implement the policies that the American people voted for.
BEYOND FRUSTRATING!!!!!!!!
Trump has become the swamp he once swore to drain.
President Trump can only do so much alone.
Correction the DC courts are blocking any attempt at doing something!
I would prefer every single person involved in that illegal bullshit, including FBI agents and Merrick Garland be prosecuted, convicted, and jailed. Without consequences, people pull the same crap over and over.
Hung for sedition would be better.
I believe the search was a lot to kill Trump dressed up as a search warrant. It's not mentioned here but the HRT section of the Eff Bee Lie carried out the search. The job of the HRT is to smash things and kill people not serve warrants.
They had nothing……they found nothing…..but by golly they planted BS that was never there.
Everyone who took part in that raid, and I mean everyone, should be fired and stripped of all credentials and never be allowed in any type of law enforcement positions ever, ever again.
And stripped of pensions.
That's not going to happen either.
I know. But it should.
Should be but won't be.
Pence and Biden had classified documents they didn't get raided. Wonder why?
We have mountains of evidence of democrat crimes, yet zero raids.
Case in point! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/15e904dc80b59c48ab6cb63047b6fc91472a74f722bb4afc585c72ff769df77d.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1cbc71e9d10c39f6f7980e685f653210d6f78581fc61303be63e3c7f1b3ff613.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/200dd088af91801905bf5d18fe91f7dfcfcd2724f57a8b3d9a29ac70d52c6799.png
Tell me something I didn't know on the day of the raid.
Now remember, merrick, wray, and garland are at PEAK demonic "power" right now.The "righteous sacrifice" (as they call it) at OKC MURRAH, of ALL those children, is their "arrest warrant" of power OVER ALL off "us".
Clinton promptly popped UP and said "Rush Limbaugh" listeners did it". A "righteous sacrifice".
Then TWA800, was "next"….
Hope this helps….
Speaking of helping… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1635b7509ddb792ed8123624b475bc789d0c1fb0ba3c8caa903d0ee5a8dd3a62.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/60cc86327fbe158142db53fdcd80e3e22b462090d2f930bad4d9f43b30985ec1.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d6d2b9f221b3e6e2338eacdc5718035ec310995b80bfcf608ab10fb55cfe879a.png
Merrick and Garland are the same person of the three you “named”. Try again
Blastards. Gotta post this. Again.
First posted this Feb 15 2026, 7 months ago. Only the count at bottom changes, each time I update:
"By this time in the Hiden* regime, the 'Rats had arrested hundreds (Thousands?) of patriots. Going to randomly pick a tiny number. Let's say 50. Very tiny. And if at least 50 Democrat criminals are not arrested (Including at least a dozen big wigs) (Out of hundreds that deserve it) by midterms, I am seriously going to consider not voting. For the first time ever. Call me what you'd like, I just do not give a Hillary. Way past sick of this charade that 'The good guys', Republicans, are foisting upon American citizens."
P.S. The mid terms will be here at light speed. Meanwhile, the RINO's will be promising (again) "Man, we're reeeeeally gonna git em THIS time!!!!". Yeah, right.
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The Democrats will 'win' the midterms and the Trump presidency will effectively come to it's end.
Yup, that's about it.
And…..what are you going to do about all these crimes committed by Dems/Globalists these past 17 years???
This is an example of the enemy from within and is supported by Congress.
They just wanted to panty-raid Melanias stuff.
Take a good look at that photo. These are your typical government agents, a LGBXYZ+ female who has never handled a weapon before and an overweight male wannabe. This is the personnel the deep state is going to rely on to protect them If push ever comes to shove. They don't stand a chance against us.
We can't win without the military's support.
Each one took home a pair of Melania's panties for their sniff party
"For many, the process itself became the punishment. A person need not be convicted—or even formally charged—to have a life dismantled by years of investigation, surveillance, litigation and public suspicion. Legal bills accumulated, businesses and careers were destroyed, reputations were poisoned, relationships fractured and families were left to carry the psychological weight of being treated as enemies of their own government." Turn around is fair play as the old saying goes. This is what should be happening to all those involved in the wrongful persecution and prosecutions of our people.
It's the only way they will learn.
Trump was guilty and Cannon protected him. Trump will face justice when he is out of office and doesn't have anyone protecting him. He may stroke out before that.
The DoJ, in defiance of law, tradition, and common sense, set out to persecute an innocent man living in Florida (President Trump), which Governor DeSantis purports to govern.
He could have answered this in tones of thunder, demanding to know what they thought they were doing in his state.
He could have ordered the local SAC (special agent in charge) to appear at his office, and when he didn’t show up, drove over to his office escorted by State Police and plenty of media, to publicly humiliate him.
He could even have shut the office down and ordered the staff out of state.
But he didn’t do any of this. No, he released a “statement,” that went something like, “That wasn’t very nice… maybe you shouldn’t do things like that.”
So much for the young GOP lion. Martha’s Vineyard stunts are one thing, standing up when it counts is something else altogether.
This puts DeSantis in the same class as Kristi Noem and Scott Walker. We all recall Noem bending to the transgenders, while Walker’s career evaporated when he adapted the RINO stance toward illegals under pressure from GOP donors. DeSantis is likely to recover better than these two, but he is clearly not yet ready for national office.
I’ll simply add that this is the man who has been widely proposed as a “replacement” for Trump.
Still better than Vance or Rubio
I heard her on several shows recently. She has a bad case of political correctness. We are fighting pure evil that means stop treating dems like it's 1960. Fight them on everything and every narrative
People should be killed for this…a military matter. Quietly perhaps but dead. The government should clean up their mess.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand………NOTHING every happens! No one is ever held accountable for illegal activity!
Still ZERO indictments. ZERO. Trump is an absolute CUCK if he doesn't hold the deep state criminals accountable. After letting every Espstein co-conspirator SKATE it seems like he has ZERO BALLS and ZERO SOUL.
Trump can't get evidence for things that didn't happen.
The filthy decay of an irreparably corrupted government…
No, they had something.
The CNN cameras for the sensationalism and talking points for the propaganda. Funny how all of the self-inflicted damage from the propaganda and the government overall worked against them spectacularly in this illegal raid.
And not one person has been held accountable for illegally raiding the former President's residence, NOT ONE!
And not ever.
“THEY HAD NOTHING” – CHRISTINA BOBB ON THE MAR-A-LAGO RAID AND MORE.
What the FBI DID have was shoot to kill approval.
And no where in the FBI stood up for justice.
The Mar-a-Largo raid was NOTHING but another attempt by the corrupt, above the law TRAITORS at the FBI, to assassinate President Trump, with the added 'bonus' of being able to rifle through Mrs. Trump's underwear drawer, using a search warrant, of course.
The FBI IS a State sanctioned, TAXPAYER FUNDED, TERRORIST ORGANIZATION, which, through its doctrine, and 'training', has, required its terrorist tactics to become standard operating procedure for ANY, and ALL other law enforcement agencies in the United States, which they ALL adopted with NO hesitation, or concern about the Constitutional RIGHTS of WE, THE PEOPLE..
They or anyone at all is not in jail for it either!
And what is the current DOJ doing about this? Is arch criminal Merrick Garland going to be held accountable? Anyone else? Chrisy Wray? Anyone, anyone? What a joke the GOP is the DOJ is. No balls, no spine, no testosterone, all pansies and pushovers. Really makes me sick, and add it to the ten texts I get every day asking and even demanding donations to the GOP and their squishy candidates. Horrible.
The secret service? It was them again.
The guys who couldn't find the owner of that bag of cocaine.
Joetato was had classified documents, but for some reason his home wasn't raided.
Hitlery had an illegal server, and Comey decided she wasn't guilty.
Sadly, all true.
Yes they had nothing, so they made up something and none of them are looking at jail time.
and who's going to jail? NOBODY. great story. total waste of time.
Straight up: Everyone involved in the lawfare needs to spend the next 20 years behind bars.
If they can't handle that, then they should face us in a crowd and whatever happens happens. Their choice. Either way, none of them should walk away from the scot-free.
We all knew it was illegal. That is why the Biden DOJ did it. Sadly most of the agents involved are still working for the FBI. That is the reason there have been some many attempts on his life. They are in on them all.
When you have a TDS Administration, a TDS Court System and a TDS Jury Pool you don't need a crime.
No, it was the Ross Perot gambit….
The small minds behind this figured that the intimidation worked on rich businessman Ross Perot years ago, it would work on Trump….
And when it didnt, they tried to assasinate him…..
Smith tried to plant documents at Marlogo but Trumps security denied FBI to turn off cameras inside. We know this by it being mentioned several times. And the movement of files within the residence and trying to photograph without cameras showing the manipulation.
Trump has documents on Obama showing his criminal involvement but holding on to them.
FBlie: “We were just following orders.
The Nazis said the same thing.
And the babe in that pic above is wearing a Secret Service shirt, so it was obviously in on this false flag caper, too.
The secret service betrayed Trump also. They knew the FakeBLie were sent by Big Mikes husband. They should have never allowed them to enter.
They got Melania's panties.
Trump was guilty and Cannon protected him. Trump will face justice when he is out of office and doesn't have anyone protecting him.