Tim Pierce

dropped today.

The film, titled Melania, follows Mrs. Trump during the 20 days leading up to President Trump's second inauguration.

The film's directed by Brett Ratner of Rush Hour fame and was licensed by Amazon as part of a $40 million deal signed in January.

Here's a bit of the trailer.

Right.

Credit for this scoop goes to Brooke Singman at Fox News.

She obtained messages exchanged between the FBI and Biden DOJ that seemed to give more credibility to Trump's claims of political targeting.

In the months before the raid, an assistant special agent in charge at the FBI had received some tip that Trump had boxes of classified information at Mar-a-Lago.

But the Bureau's Washington field office, quote, has some concerns that the information is single-sourced, has not been corroborated, and may be dated.

The DOJ, on the other hand, asserted that the evidence met the probable cause standard for search warrants.

But weeks later, another message from an FBI agent said, we haven't generated any new facts, but keep being given draft after draft after draft.

Absent a witness coming forward with recent information about classified on-site, at what point is it fair to table this?

Another message said the Washington field office does, quote, not believe that we have established probable cause for the search warrant for classified records at Mar-a-Lago.

That concern had been passed on to the DOJ, but according to another message, the DOJ has opined that they do have probable cause, requesting a wide scope, including residence, office, and storage space.

The FBI's stance on this was that the records probably could be obtained through a much less intrusive process, maybe as simple as having a conversation with Trump's attorney.

Yeah, and it looks that way.

On top of that, we see in the messages that even as the bureau was preparing for the raid, it was still pushing back against the DOJ.

The FBI wanted to be the first to contact Trump's team about the raid, hopefully to secure better cooperation in how the raid comes out.

The logic here being that the DOJ had already poisoned its relationship with Trump's team and the FBI could be a better messenger.

An FBI agent wrote that then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General George Tauskas had said on a call with the FBI that he, frankly, doesn't give a damn about the optics of the raid, and that the department's counterintelligence head, Jay Brat, had already built an antagonistic relationship with Trump's attorneys.