Trump was indicted last year in two bogus cases led by Special Counsel Jack Smith: one for alleged mishandling of sensitive government records and another for purportedly attempting to overturn the 2020 election.
BTW: No one was ever charged with “insurrection”. The FBI found no evidence that Trump and his allies were directly involved with organizing the Jan 6 protest.
And just like that, all the bogus lawfare cases against President Trump by the corrupt Biden DOJ and Jack Smith are gone.
Chutkan is an Obama-appointed Trump-hating judge who favored every motion filed by Smith.
Hey Jack, the Judiciary Committee wants to see you:
Word is trickling out that the DOJ will fire Special Counsel Jack Smith and drop both of the federal cases against Trump soon.
MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian said “What’s interesting here is that the DOJ is moving to end them even before he takes office, citing the longstanding DOJ policy that sitting presidents can’t be prosecuted. And there were some thought that maybe special counsel Jack Smith was going to sprint through the finish line, was going to work up until the last day, force Trump to fire him, wait till a new Attorney General was appointed. But that does not appear to be the thinking inside the department. The thinking is that these cases can’t go forward.”
CNN’s Paula Reid said that Smith is in talks with the Biden Justice Dept’s Office of Legal Counsel to figure out how to “wind down” the cases.
FoxNews also reported that Jack Smith is on the way out, and the cases will be dropped soon, and ABC announced the same.
So far, this news only applies to the two federal cases, the classified documents case in Florida and the J6 case in DC. However, former AG Bill Barr has urged all of the state prosecutors to also “respect the people’s decision and dismiss the cases against President Trump now.”
Jack Smith lurched into a Washington courtroom in September, fully aware all eyes had turned to him.
Surrounded by a team of federal prosecutors and guarded by a government-paid security detail, Smith, a lanky man with a scruffy beard and ill-fitting suit, stood behind the government’s table with arms folded. He slowly turned around with a partial scowl to appraise the audience—mostly reporters and D.C. residents eager to watch the restart of his January 6-related case against Donald Trump—to make sure he was noticed. He did not speak during the proceedings.
That appearance, perhaps unbeknownst to him at the time, looks like Smith’s last time in a federal courtroom as the special counsel prosecuting Trump. Citing Department of Justice rules that prohibit the prosecution of a sitting president, Smith reportedly is working with his bosses at the DOJ to figure out how to drop both the D.C. case and the classified documents in case in Florida; Smith has appealed Judge Aileen Cannon’s order dismissing the indictment based on the special counsel’s unconstitutional appointment.
The move represents another political fatality tied to Trump’s resounding victory on Tuesday. It also represents another humiliating defeat for the man the media portrayed as a steely war-crimes prosecutor plucked off a high profile international trial at the Hague by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November 2022 to finally realize a longtime DOJ dream: put Donald Trump behind bars.
……..his prosecutorial resume is a long list of courtroom losses, which makes one wonder why Garland chose him for the job. (More here).
Smith failed to win a single conviction in his prosecution of former Senator John Edwards on campaign finance charges in 2012. One DOJ watchdog group slammed Smith for using an “overly aggressive approach” in pursuing Obama’s 2008 Democratic primary rival and for relying on a “novel interpretation of campaign finance laws” to put Edwards behind bars.
It is an approach he repeated in his two unprecedented criminal indictments of Trump. The four counts in his J6-related case rely on vague conspiracy and obstruction statutes; two of the charges involve 18 USC 1512(c)(2), the post-Enron tampering with documents statute. In June, the Supreme Court reversed how the DOJ had applied that law in hundreds of January 6 cases and the court would have reached the same conclusion about Smith’s interpretation of the law if the case ever made it there.
In fact, the court this year rebuked Smith twice—by denying his highly unusual request to bypass the D.C. appellate court to immediately consider the presidential immunity question and by rendering its landmark decision in Trump v US, which largely gutted the J6 indictment.
Smith’s classified documents case consisted of a hodgepodge of allegations about Trump’s possession of alleged national defense papers after he left office and accusations that he and two aides attempted to obstruct the investigation, which began in February 2022. But the DOJ’s handling of the case represents the best opportunity for a Trump DOJ to turn the tables and investigate main Justice and Special Counsel’s office for numerous offenses.
The case was tainted from the start. Although the alleged crimes occurred in Palm Beach, the DOJ conducted the entire investigation in the Trump-hating courthouse in Washington. This permitted unabashed Trump hater Chief Judge Beryl Howell to act as a rubber stamp for the DOJ’s requests including authorizing grand jury subpoenas and piercing attorney-client privilege claims between Trump and his lawyer, Evan Corcoran, under the rarely-used crime fraud exception.
Smith transferred the case to the proper jurisdiction in southern Florida at the last minute to get an indictment and then ran into a buzzsaw named Judge Aileen Cannon.
Thanks to Cannon’s fierceness—her concerns over the dirty nature of the case dates back to September 2022 when she appointed a third party to vet the items collected during the FBI’s armed raid of Mar-a-Lago the month before—the special counsel’s office was forced to disclose instances of tampering with and perhaps destroying evidence, intimidating witnesses, withholding discovery, and misleading the court.
Court proceedings also revealed egregious misconduct related to the unprecedented armed raid of Mar-a-Lago; agents working out of the Washington and Miami FBI field offices breached the broad terms of the search warrant by ransacking the bedrooms of Melania and Barron Trump. The FBI’s plan included the bureau’s use of lethal force policy, underscoring the excessiveness of the raid, which was altogether unnecessary considering Trump and his lawyers had been cooperating with authorities for months.
Prosecutors later admitted in court that some of the records seized during the raid were not properly handled by investigators; defense attorneys claimed documents were missing.
Defense attorneys also obtained communications between the DOJ, the National Archives, and the Biden White House that demonstrated a behind-the-scenes effort to concoct a documents case as early as May 2021. A Trump DOJ should haul before a grand jury everyone from Biden’s general counsel Jonathan Su to deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco and top NARA officials involved in the scheme.
Conspiracy to defraud, anyone?
A full-blown audit into the special counsel’s expenditures should be conducted by either a Trump DOJ or a Republican Congress. Smith’s prosecutors often bragged about “the permanent, indefinite appropriation for independent counsels” allowed under 28 U.S.C. § 591 note, a claim Judge Cannon also doubted.
According to required financial reports, Smith’s team spent at least $35 million in the first 14 months of his investigation, a figure that includes additional support from main Justice. But those costs only cover the period from November 2022 through March 2024; it’s likely Smith blew through another $15 million or so over the last several months, bringing the total to over $50 million.
Expenses include a protective detail for Smith; travel expenses; and millions in unspecified “contractual services.”
Time to see who and what companies profited off the special counsel grift.
Weak Republicans in Congress undoubtedly will resist efforts to investigate and audit Smith but Trump should ignore them.
The American people—as well as Trump himself and his co-defendants—deserve a full accounting of this dirty, rogue, secretive process. And Smith and his accomplices need to be held accountable.
Smith violated the same law as J6 defendants who were sent to prison for years—-18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2).
Smith also met with Biden aides before the bogus classified documents charges were brought. In a motion filed with the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida, he admitted that he and other DOJ and FBI minions manipulated key evidence seized during the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022.
The FBI found nothing even remotely connected to “nuclear secrets”. They did, however, rifle through Melania’s wardrobe like frat boys at a panty raid. It’s a prime example of selective politicized targeting.
BTW: President Trump was authorized to possess those documents under the Presidential Records Act.
On the other hand, Joe Biden hid classified documents from everyone, including the National Archives, since 2017. He absconded with them as Vice President, without the authority to possess or declassify them. Boxes of classified documents went from the White House to UPenn, Boston, Chinatown, and Biden’s garage. Some of those documents are dated from his time as Senator and contained Top Secret information. In spite of his own national security violations and breaking the law, he ordered a raid on Mar a Lago. Not only was he refusing to cooperate, but he had his lawyers trying to bury the evidence before the midterms. That is obstruction and tampering with evidence.
The DOJ knew about Biden’s feckless handling of classified material, but they and the FBI agreed to cover it up.
Merrick Garland’s minions opted against having FBI agents oversee a search by Biden’s lawyers for classified documents at his private homes, and ultimately left the matter to Biden’s own attorneys. This was a coordinated coverup from the second they were discovered.
By the way: Hunter Biden had access to documents at Joe’s house and some of them were used as leverage in a deal with Ukraine.
The Dem cabal started persecuting Donald Trump the day he came down the escalator at Trump Towers and declared his candidacy.
There’s actual evidence of an attempted coup d’ etat against a duly elected president with a fake dossier, illegal spying, lying to the FISA court, and a “Russian collusion hoax“. The DOJ and FBI are no longer in law enforcement. They’ve become a weaponized political tool of the DNC. They should be dismantled from the top down.
President Trump has been through the gauntlet of illegal and unconstitutional tactics by the Dems’ weaponized agencies. And he still remains unscathed.
There’s a two-tiered system of justice in America; The Dem criminal conglomerate continues to use their positions to abuse power and commit crimes. When squalling she-ass Nancy Pelosi declares “No one is above the law”, it flies in the face of reality. If it were true, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Joe and Hunter Biden, B. Hussein Obama, Eric Holder, Nancy Pelosi, James Comey, and James Clapper, would have been indicted, convicted, and jailed.
Anger over the incessant persecution of Donald Trump is justified and should be condemned. The endless campaign against him by Dem malfeasants is illegal and unconstitutional.
You should be just as angry over the autocracy’s war on you, your civil liberties, and freedom.
The Dems have created a system of bullying and persecution of political opponents.
They certainly won’t do anything that brings their own party’s criminals to justice. Never in the history of this country has a political party been so unfettered in its ability to weaponize government agencies against political opponents and citizens who object to their malfeasance. They get away with it because they can. So far, the GOP, collectively, hasn’t had the guts to unite and stop this shit.
Unless or until America stands up to this, the authoritarian government brutality will continue. If you don’t think it affects you, just wait.
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