Posted on 08/29/2023 8:28:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan is now demanding answers from Attorney General Merrick Garland and White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, as to why a prosecutor working with Special Counsel Jack Smith was meeting with people from the White House Counsel's Office at the White House multiple times in the run-up to Smith charging former President Donald Trump. Can we say collusion? Because that's exactly what it looks like.
Jay Bratt reportedly met with Biden officials at least three known times, the more recent and perhaps relevant one was in March 2023. Jordan wants communications about the meetings.
“According to recent reporting, Jay Bratt—a Department of Justice employee and top aide to Special Counsel Jack Smith—met with White House officials multiple times, just weeks before Mr. Smith indicted former President Donald Trump,” Jordan wrote.
“This new information raises serious concerns regarding the potential for a coordinated effort between the Department and the White House to investigate and prosecute President Biden’s political opponents.”
Jordan requested “[a]ll documents and communications referring or relating to any appointment, meeting, or other visit by Mr. Bratt to the White House or the Executive Office of the President” and those “between the Executive Office of the President and the Department of Justice referring or relating to the investigation and/or prosecutions of Special Counsel Jack Smith.
As we've reported before, Bratt was involved in the classified document investigation of Trump. He was reportedly the guy behind the raid on Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, contradicting some in the FBI who wanted to do a consensual search. He also argued against unsealing the affidavit used to justify the issuance of a search warrant.
Perhaps more troubling, as I reported previously, Bratt is the one who was accused by defendant Walt Nauta's attorney, Stanley Woodward, of bringing up the position that he'd applied for as a judge and then saying he, Bratt, didn't think Woodward was a "Trump guy" and would "do the right thing" about his client flipping. If ever there were a nasty move to try to coerce cooperation, that's it. Woodward was allegedly very rocked by it.
Logs show Bratt met on March 31, 2023, with Caroline Saba, deputy chief of staff for the White House counsel’s office, and Danielle Ray, an FBI agent in the Washington field office. A spokesperson for Smith claimed that it was for a "case-related interview," and then another person familiar with the meeting claimed it was “an interview of a career official who was also working at the White House during the Trump Administration.”
Given everything that has come down in this case, I think it's fair to say I don't buy that's the only reason. Bratt is a very experienced guy; he should have known such a thing would not look good, yet he did it anyway. So, one has to ask why. That's why it's good that the House is following up on this. I hope they subpoena the White House Counsel folks as well if they don't come across. Put them under oath and get them on the record. Because right now, this all stinks to high heaven.
Demand in one hand, they shall.
They’ll deny anything wrong. The press will echo it.
Demand away! Hey, write a polite letter while you’re at it. Feckless pussies
Did anyone write a contemporaneous email to themselves explaining how everyone at these meetings obeyed the law?
RE: Hey, write a polite letter while you’re at it. Feckless pussies
Realistically, what can the House do to stop this travesty?
Aren’t independent counsels supposed to be....well...independent?
Not in Bidenland.
According to ace reporting by the NYP, via WH visitor logs, the “independents” were all over the White House, apparently to coordinate during the critical moments in the Trump prosecution case.
<><>Jay Bratt, who joined the special counsel team shortly after it was formed, was there
<><>with Caroline Saba, deputy chief of staff for the White House counsel’s office.
<><>They were joined by Danielle Ray, an FBI agent in the Washington field office.
Nine weeks later, Trump was indicted by Smith’s office on June 8, 2023.
<><>What did Joeblow need the FBI agent for?
<><>Why were they meeting at all?
<><>Can they explain this without gaslighting?
<><>Is there some kind of innocent explanation?
Bratt, 63, also met with Saba at the White House in November 2021, when Trump was mired in negotiations with the National Archives, who were demanding the return of presidential records from his Mar-a-Lago estate before a formal investigation had not yet been opened.
Bratt, it turns out, is the dirtiest of the dirty operators associated with the corrupted filth of the Biden White House.
Bratt was worried about his application to be judge.
So he tried to extort the attorney for a small-fry Trump defendant to plead guilty and cooperate with his side, so as to advance his judgeship app.
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“ Highly Questionable Meeting”
Worthless limp wristed losers. I suppose a stern will be written because of this
House demandzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. 😴
What powers do they have other than that?
RICO
So the indictments are Biden using the DOJ to eliminate his competition. We have become Nazi Germany
Appropriation bills must originate in the House. I have all kinds of creative ideas for defunding and cutting. But McCarthy will bring a CR to the floor and vote with his Democrat buddies. The CR will go to next March, then an Omnibus bill. (The March part of that was the rumor of the day.)
At least my congressman will have no part of that.
The Republican controlled House is collectively a politlcal eunuch. More like yappy castrated Yorkies.
There are many ways to creatively wield power. Otherwise, what’s the purpose of being the majority. The Republican congress critters have no political will. None.
BTTT
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“Highly questionable” is seriously underselling it.
Gee...Garland, Zients, Bratt.
The Real Americans.
Three Red Diaper babies who have taken the United States off rhe cliff.
Daring all of us to Do Something about it. So they can call their co-ethnic over at DHS to stomp on the “extremists”.
This is a Communist take down, kiddies. Look at Czechoslovakia and Hungary after the war. What can McCarthy do?
Lots. The Judiciary Committee can turn it into a najor show. Put Bratt into the hot seat and compel testimony or else he goes downstairs to the House jail. Do the same to Zients. Delete funding for all of it and start impeachment proceedings on Garland which should have started months ago. Don’t expect a conviction? So what. Get it on record, demand he resign.
There are thousands of things they could do. Smith has pulled the biggest stunt of all American history and now they have everyone thinking it’s just another litigation. NO, it’s the attempted violent abduction of the President of the United States. By a gang of brazen risk takers trying to see how far they can go before the whole damn place blows. So MCarthy, Jordan and Gaetz need to up the ante and set off that political bomb: start throwing THEM in jail cells.
The Congress has the power. Not a bunch of political appointees from the Hah-Vahd law skool.
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