Almost 700 pages of these documents, referred to as the ‘Crossfire Hurricane Redacted Binder’ and dated April 9, 2025, have been exclusively acquired by Just the News. This action by Trump and Patel is in response to a March executive order aimed at finalizing the declassification of records related to the FBI’s investigation into Trump and Russia—an initiative that had been obstructed by Trump’s own Justice Department in January 2021 during the concluding days of his first term.
This development follows four years of opposition from the Biden administration’s DOJ and FBI, under the leadership of former Attorney General Merrick Garland and ex-FBI Director Christopher Wray, who declined to disclose the documents.
The Crossfire Hurricane investigation conducted by the FBI, which focused on then-candidate and subsequently President Trump in 2016 and thereafter, was initiated based on unverified claims of collusion with the Russian government.
This investigation faced significant criticism for being perceived as a politically motivated initiative by certain factions within the intelligence and law enforcement sectors aimed at destabilizing Trump’s presidency.
Trump’s directive issued in March is entitled ‘Immediate Declassification of Materials Related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation.’ In this directive, he alludes to his previous, unsuccessful effort to declassify the same documents on his last full day in office during his initial term.
I have concluded that all materials mentioned in the Presidential Memorandum dated January 19, 2021, are no longer classified,” he stated while announcing the directive. Trump’s order from January 2021 referred to a collection of documents pertaining to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, which he indicated was provided to the White House by the Justice Department at his request on December 30, 2020.
“I hereby declassify the remaining documents in this collection,” Trump declared on January 19, 2021. “This represents my final decision regarding the declassification review, and I have instructed the Attorney General to carry out the redactions suggested in the FBI’s submission from January 17 and to return to the White House a suitably redacted version.”
A later report from the newly appointed special counsel of the Justice Department, John Durham, determined that ‘neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community seemed to have any concrete evidence of collusion in their records at the start of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.’
Durham further stated that ‘the FBI overlooked the reality that investigators were unable to substantiate any significant claims made in the Steele dossier at any point before, during, or after the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.’ Despite this, notable Democrats, including current Senator Adam Schiff of California, continued to propagate these unfounded allegations in the media.
