Fact check: False claim that Biden ordered the FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate

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Fact check: False claim that Biden ordered the FBI search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate
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Biden did not order the FBI's August search, and the line in the court order referenced in the Instagram post does not indicate otherwise, Bradley Moss, a national security lawyer, told USA TODAY in an email.

The order says the government informed Trump it will provide the FBI access to the records, ''as requested by the incumbent President.”

Biden did not order the FBI search, multiple legal experts told USA TODAY. And the quote referring to"the incumbent president" is not proof that he did: It's from a letter the National Archives and Records Administration sent to Trump's lawyer about 15 boxes of records the agency had retrieved from Mar-a-Lago in mid-January – seven months before the FBI search of the property.

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