YouTuber Legal Eagle sues FBI, DOJ for Trump investigation records

Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News on Dec 11, 2024

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Attorney Devin Stone, better known as popular YouTuber Legal Eagle, announced Wednesday that he’s filed a lawsuit against the FBI and the DOJ to make public their findings in the federal criminal cases against President-elect Donald Trump.

The 78-year-old politician was under investigation for election interference and illegally handling classified documents before he was elected to a second term as president last month.

Special counsel Jack Smith moved to drop the cases against Trump following that win, citing a Justice Department policy that would prohibit continuing the prosecutions once Trump takes office. Smith reportedly plans to leave his position before Trump returns to power, but intends to first finish his work, according to the New York Times.

Trump has indicated that government employees who investigated him will be replaced with loyalists after he’s inaugurated next month. He’s nominated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the DOJ and ultra-MAGA loyalist Kash Patel to head the FBI. The latter reportedly published a book last year containing an “enemies list” of people he feels wronged Trump and could suffer the consequences.

Given that, Stone says he feels an urgency to immediately obtain records alleging illegal activity involving the 47th president.

“There’s already an effort underway to rewrite history and deny reality,” Stone said on his YouTube channel Wednesday. “That’s why it’s critically important to act now to capture the complete record of the federal prosecutions before the records are destroyed, altered or God knows what the new administration will do with them.”

Stone said he filed Freedom of Information Act documents pertaining to the investigations of the president-elect and that his request was illegally declined, so he responded with a lawsuit.

“If this lawsuit is successful, then the American public may finally have the answers to many of the unanswered questions about the Donald Trump investigations,” Stone said.

One of those mysteries, according to Stone, is the names of possible unidentified co-conspirators in Trump’s alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and hoard sensitive national security documents.

Stone also wants to know if Trump kept classified records anywhere other than his Mar-a-Lago estate, where investigators said they recovered boxes of printed information that shouldn’t have been there in 2022. Trump is accused of removing 300 classified documents after exiting the White House in January 2021.

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