Trump officials say they were informed by Google of Biden-era probe of email accounts

The last several weeks have been replete with revelations about the efforts of prior administrations to undermine Donald Trump, both while a candidate and as president.

Now, several veterans of Trump’s first term in the White House have stepped forward to claim that they were informed by Google that they had been under investigation by the Biden FBI, a disclosure the company was previously prevented by court order from making, as Fox News reports.

Scavino comes forward

Details of the scrutiny faced by members of Trump’s first administration emerged on Friday in a post on X from Dan Scavino, who now serves as White House deputy chief of staff.

Scavino explained that he had been “proudly and patriotically serving in the first Trump White House” but, upon departing in January 2021, was targeted by what he called “Biden lawfare.”

The high-level Trump aide noted that five weeks before returning to the White House for the president’s second term, he received a troubling email from tech giant Google.

That message said, “Google received and responded to legal process issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation compelling the release of information related to your Google account.”

It continued, “A court order previously prohibited Google from notifying you of the legal process… .”

Reactions pour in

Scavino made the situation public last week, in an effort to underscore what he said was a “small taste of the INSANITY that many of us went through – right here in the United States of America. LAWFARE at its finest. A Complete and Total Disgrace!!!!”

Soon after Scavino recounted the story on X, current FBI Director Kash Patel posted in response, writing, “I got one of those too… .”

Another former — and current — Trump official, Jeff Clark, chimed in as well, saying that he also received the notification from Google, noting, “Indeed, a whole [former special counsel] Jack Smith team was assigned to go through my emails after there was a privilege review.”

Clark lamented the expansive scope of the probe, adding, “But that group of lawyers ignored my religious pastor privilege, and other privileges and basically shipped all they could to Jack Smith.

Echoing the financial and personal ramifications of Democrat lawfare of which so many Trump allies — such as Carter Page — in recent years have complained, Clark added, “But it still cost me tens of thousands to try to protect my communications” and blasted “thugs with law degrees” who ignored the fact that “medical records and other private communications had nothing to do with the 2020 election. They were no one’s business.”

Accountability coming?

With so many now calling for accountability for perpetrators of the Russia collusion hoax and the related lawfare to which Scavino and others have brought renewed attention, the pressure is on the Justice Department to produce results, and it remains to be seen whether any indictments are on the horizon.

For now, however, some of those victimized during the Biden years can perhaps take a small degree of solace in the recent announcement that the Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal agency, has launched a probe of Jack Smith for potential violations of the Hatch Act, a statute designed to limit political activities of federal employees.