Chicago’s Morning Answer host Dan Proft spoke with attorney and former Marine Christina Bobb about her new book, Defiant: Inside the Mar-a-Lago Raid and the Left’s Ongoing Lawfare. The book, set for release on September 9, examines the FBI’s 2022 raid of then former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence and the legal battles that followed.
Bobb, who previously served as a Trump attorney and now works with Judicial Watch, argued that federal investigators never had probable cause to pursue the case. She said the Presidential Records Act granted Trump authority over the documents in question, and that the raid only came about after prosecutors failed to build a case in Washington, D.C. “Nothing from Mar-a-Lago turned out to be criminal,” Bobb said, describing the case as reframed into obstruction charges simply because the initial investigation found no wrongdoing.
According to Bobb, the raid represented a sharp turn from earlier cooperative exchanges between Trump’s legal team and the Justice Department. She said federal officials were given access to the records months before the raid, only to later return with a search warrant approved by a judge who had previously recused himself from a Trump case. “They flat out lied in order to get the search warrant from a compromised judge,” Bobb claimed.
Bobb also discussed her role as a custodian of records, her testimony before grand juries, and her ongoing legal challenges in Arizona tied to the 2020 election. She described the cumulative effect of what she called “lawfare” as an attempt to drain resources and damage reputations for political purposes.
The conversation touched on parallels between the Mar-a-Lago case and other Trump-related prosecutions, as well as the broader debate over what Proft described as the “weaponization of government.” Bobb predicted that investigations into figures such as former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan could eventually lead to indictments. “I would be shocked at this point if we didn’t see that,” she said, while warning that only sweeping accountability would prevent future abuses of power.
Christina Bobb’s Defiant will be available September 9 and is currently open for pre-order.