Trump 1.0 alums share chilling Google message from before second-term return: 'LAWFARE at its finest'

Representatives from the first Trump administration are alleging they received notices from Google shortly before they returned to office that they were being probed by the FBI under the Biden administration and the web giant was unable to tell them because of a court order Dan Scavino who is now White House Deputy Chief of Staff and assistant to the president described the matter as Biden lawfare kicking in after he patriotically and proudly served during Trump s first term Google received and responded to a legal process issued by the Federal Bureau of Analysis compelling the release of information related to your Google account A court order previously prohibited Google from notifying you of the legal process Scavino shared on X from an email he announced he received from Google five weeks before Trump returned to the White House I ve never shared this but this is a small taste of the INSANITY that countless of us went through right here in the United States of America LAWFARE at its finest A Complete and Total Disgrace he added TOP GOP SENATOR DEMANDS PROBE INTO WHETHER JACK SMITH 'UNLAWFULLY' TRIED TO INFLUENCE BALLOTING Less than a half-hour after Scavino s post FBI Director Kash Patel responded to him saying I got one of those too Jeff Clark the current acting administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs then chimed in Saturday morning saying that he too received a similar message Indeed a whole Jack Smith squad was assigned to go through my emails after there was a privilege review Clark wrote on X in reference to the former special counsel But that group of lawyers ignored my religious pastor privilege marital privilege and other privileges and basically shipped all they could to Jack Smith But it still cost me tens of thousands to try to protect my communications he added FORMER CIA DIRECTOR JOHN BRENNAN 'CLUELESS' ABOUT WHY FBI WOULD INVESTIGATE HIM Smith was tapped by former Attorney General Merrick Garland to probe claims that Trump sought to overturn the electoral contest results and later investigated the handling of classified documents that were uncovered during a raid at Trump s Mar-a-Lago compound My curative records and other private communications had nothing to do with the vote They were no one s business But it didn t matter to these thugs with law degrees and the willingness to abuse administration power Clark announced Saturday They were trying to bait me to go to court to get them to destroy their secret copies of the emails so they could try to break even my lawyer-client privilege with President Trump But my squad and I didn t fall for it Clark also announced Moreover the whole thing was a blatant attempt to intimidate me It didn t work and I didn t fold under the pressure The FBI did not this instant respond Saturday to a request for comment from Fox News Digital Fox News Alex Miller contributed to this summary