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REVEALED: Federal prosecutor who said Trump could be indicted in Capitol riots did NOT get approval for the interview and caused uproar at DOJ
UK Daily Mail ^ | March 23 2021 | KEITH GRIFFITH and HARRIET ALEXANDER

Posted on 03/23/2021 12:30:26 AM PDT by knighthawk

The federal prosecutor who said Donald Trump could face charges in the riot at the U.S. Capitol was not authorized to speak out, and his remarks caused uproar at the Justice Department, according to a new report.

Michael Sherwin, the Trump-appointed former acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, broke protocol by not seeking department approval for the interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday, people briefed on the matter told CNN.

The remarks reportedly infuriated senior officials in the department, where new Attorney General Merrick Garland is pushing for a 'no drama' policy and discouraging comments on active investigations.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; castro; cnn; cuba; districtofcolumbia; harrietalexander; j6; keithgriffith; merrickgarland; michaelsherwin; perjurystillokay; prosecutor; returned; tedturner
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1 posted on 03/23/2021 12:30:26 AM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk
pro tip:

don't have a unique name like Michael Sherwin.

2 posted on 03/23/2021 12:36:18 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: knighthawk
Michael Sherwin, the Trump-appointed former acting U.S. Attorney...

Oooops.


3 posted on 03/23/2021 1:43:41 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas.")
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To: knighthawk

the DO”J” is now in HISTORY forever as the
MOST corrupt, MOST evil, NATION-destroying, LYING,
Seditious, POLITICALLY OWNED traitors
and killers of witnesses and THIS GREAT NATION.


4 posted on 03/23/2021 1:58:07 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: knighthawk

Maybe the DOJ is mad because they wanted a 6:00 a.m. RAID on MaraLago!!


5 posted on 03/23/2021 2:03:10 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Diogenesis

Did u see that NY judge who called out the DNC media? Your search for one honest man may be over. What will your new Freep name be? :)


6 posted on 03/23/2021 2:10:22 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: knighthawk

"They're not going to stop," she said.

"This is a movement, I'm telling you, they're not going to stop, and everyone beware because they're not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they're not going to stop after Election Day.

And everyone should take note of that, on both levels, that they're not going to let up, and they should not, and we should not.”

"...a longer version of the exchange posted by the 'Late Show' shows Harris saying that the protests continuing is "critically important" to achieve change.














7 posted on 03/23/2021 2:20:27 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! China-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: ETL

Yeah, but those were mostly-peaceful protests ...... /according to Democrat/Leftist CNN


8 posted on 03/23/2021 2:59:07 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: knighthawk

Swamp Creatures have to be Swamp Creatures.


9 posted on 03/23/2021 3:01:28 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: SaveFerris
CNN’s in bed with the communist revolutionaries behind the rioting and destruction in our communities.

CNN = Communist News Network

Founded in 1980 by Ted Turner, ex-hubby of infamous traitor pro-Vietcong, pro-Communist, “Hanoi Jane” Fonda. Teddy himself was a supporter of the communist North Vietnamese and Vietcong, and also the late Cuban communist dictator, mass murderer, Fidel Castro, whom he spoke highly of.

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A longtime admirer of Fidel Castro, [CNN founder Ted] Turner has called the former Cuban president 'one hell of a guy.'

In 2001 Turner told a class at Harvard Law School, "You’d like him [Castro]. He has been the leader of Cuba for 40 years. He’s the most senior leader in the world, and most of the people that are still in Cuba like him."

Castro, in turn, holds Turner in high regard, so much so that the dictator was the inspiration behind the creation of CNN International.”

discoverthenetworks org / Ted Turner
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Ted Turner recalls meeting with Fidel Castro

Christiane Amanpour, July 31, 2015

The founder of CNN discusses his legacy, the fight against climate change and a memorable trip to Cuba.

Source: CNN
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“On Nov. 21, 1970 she [Jane Fonda, ex-wife of CNN founder Ted Turner] told a University of Michigan audience of some 2,000 students, “If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist.”

At Duke University in North Carolina she [Jane Fonda] repeated what she had said in Michigan, adding “I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.”

She didn’t merely protest the Vietnam War, as [Liberal host] Oprah Winfrey wrote, Jane Fonda took the side of the North Vietnamese.”

—Washington Times - July 7, 2000

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Fonda made the following statement at the University of Texas:

We’ve got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses.

Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react.

We must commit our lives to this transition

—Dallas Morning News - Dec 11, 1971

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“The actress [Jane Fonda] drew bitter criticism after being photographed atop an anti-aircraft gun during a controversial 1972 visit to North Vietnam.

Meeting with TV critics Wednesday to discuss a new HBO documentary on her life, she expressed regret for that moment.

She said it was thoughtless to perch on the gun and called it “horrible” to think about the message her action sent to soldiers and their families, she said.”

Lynn Elber, A.P. - July 30, 2018






10 posted on 03/23/2021 3:10:43 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! China-Russia collusion! Click ETL...)
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To: ETL; null and void

My personal guess is that Ted Turner is behind the Georgia Guidestones.

Maybe a group with Ted Turner involved. Just a guess, admittedly.


11 posted on 03/23/2021 3:18:48 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: knighthawk

Looks like a comment by a Trump appointee trying to win favor with his new boss and keep his job and it blew up in his face


12 posted on 03/23/2021 4:18:26 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: Ann Archy

I think we’re fooling ourselves if we believe that’s not a possibility. Of course it’s a possibility.


13 posted on 03/23/2021 5:03:20 AM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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To: ScubaDiver

Its PROBABLE!!!!!


14 posted on 03/23/2021 5:15:12 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: knighthawk

“Now the question is, is he criminally culpable for everything that happened during the siege, during the breach?”

No, that is not a question, it is an accusatory smear. And no, Trump cannot be held criminally culpable for the riot under the 1st amendment.

By a stretch, if he were to actually happen, from now on, no candidate could ever assemble a rally without agent provocateurs joining in and causing a riot — which is what happened Jan. 6.


15 posted on 03/23/2021 6:10:16 AM PDT by odawg
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
...could face charges in the riot at the U.S. Capitol was not authorized to speak out... new Attorney General Merrick Garland is pushing for a 'no drama' policy and discouraging comments on active investigations.
Perjury, obstruction of justice, lawfare, extrajudicial acts, rule by decree, jury tampering, kangaroo courts, falsified evidence, treason-- all still okay.

16 posted on 03/23/2021 8:06:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: knighthawk

The DOJ probably set up the entire interview. That’s how much I trust them.


17 posted on 03/23/2021 9:06:49 AM PDT by NWFree (Socialism is legalized plunder)
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To: knighthawk

In short the new ‘policy’ is to do whatever the hell they want to do and keep the public in the dark...

One more commie DC rat hole...


18 posted on 03/23/2021 12:01:50 PM PDT by GOPJ (And at first Jews thought Hitler was only talking about the “bad Jews” and not them- dfwgator.)
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To: knighthawk
broke protocol by not seeking department approval for the interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday,

Idiot must have wanted face time, he should have illegally leaked the info like the others do.

19 posted on 03/23/2021 12:05:07 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

Is he another Vindman ?


20 posted on 03/23/2021 12:06:36 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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