Posted on 05/25/2024 12:40:23 PM PDT by CFW
After a long period of seeming inactivity, with many filings having been by the parties under seal, and with most pretrial hearing dates vacating — but with May 20, 2024, trial date remaining — the past two weeks have seen a series of rulings by the Judge on the Florida “Documents” case brought against former President Trump by Special Counsel Jack Smith that have revealed several mini bombshell disclosures found in some pending motions. Most interesting to me are the motion to compel discovery premised, in part, on a claim that the “prosecution team” is broader and includes more federal agencies that the Smith SCO has been representing to the Court.
This issue is more consequential than is appreciated in most of the reporting so far on what the unsealed filings are now beginning to reveal.
Readers should keep in mind that some of these filings have been before the Court, under seal, for weeks/months. The Judge has known what is in them, as well as the responses filed to them by SCO Smith. It is only the public that is learning about their contents for the first time. The actions taken by the Judge over the past few months now must be reconsidered against the backdrop of what has been known to her, as compared to the criticism heaped upon her by the lefty legal beagles who have been relentlessly claiming she is shaping her decision-making so as to assist Trump by keeping the case from getting to trial before the election.
(Excerpt) Read more at shipwreckedcrew.substack.com ...
This a link to the latest filings in the Florida case:
A post-script added to Shipwrecked's piece:
Instincts built up by me over 21 years with DOJ from 1992 to 2013 would in the past have led me to assume that if mistakes were made by the FBI and DOJ in the process of seizing the documents and accurately recording how the documents were found, that is likely the result of incompetence and/or negligence on the part of the Agents at the time they seized the records and inventoried them.
I’m no longer willing to adopt that presumption until something else is established. Because of my experiences in defending January 6 cases over the past 30 months, as well as close review (on a variety of levels, some obvious and some not) of many events involving SCO Smith and his office, my view now is that these bureaucracies have been so polluted by social justice warriors and rabid anti-Trump partisans that I no longer credit the idea of “The DOJ-FBI would never do that.” I think the current workforce of the two institutions have become so dominated by social justice warriors that an “ends justifies the means” rationale for decision-making can no longer be dismissed out-of-hand.
LOL..."can no longer be dismissed out-of-hand."
He's coming around, but can't quite bring himself to say it. They are anti-American commies who will do anything and everything to destroy jurisprudence in the USA and take down the Republic by doing so.
And they aren't just "social justice warriors." They are outright subversives bent on destroying President Trump and the country at all costs.
Its been put off until they locate Obama’s birth certificate. 😏
I found this to be interesting:
“Given that no former POTUS has ever been the subject of a criminal investigation and prosecution for retaining classified information after leaving office — and as is shown by some documents obtained by the defense through Freedom of Information Act requests — there were questions raised by various individuals in the government about whether what Trump was said to have done was a prosecutable crime. Those communications are potentially exculpatory.”
Bottom line.
They took -rifles- to Trump’s home. That says it all.
The rest is sort of legalese, yet understandably communicated, but may tend to glaze over the eyes of many causing them to abandon before reaching the end which as I said is the juicy red meat of this article.🙂👍
BTW, this article is written by someone who worked at the DoJ for 21 years from 1992 to 2013. While he didn't specifically state his position with them it gives the impression of being connected in some fashion to be connected to the prosecutors department.
Let’s not forget that the Archive folks in Congress refused to help Trump employees go through the documents before he left office, totally unlike other Presidents.
Excellent article from a well-qualified source that sheds a lot of light. Thank you.
That would definitely be exculpatory.
“Given that no former POTUS has ever been the subject of a criminal investigation and prosecution for retaining classified information after leaving office — and as is shown by some documents obtained by the defense through Freedom of Information Act requests — there were questions raised by various individuals in the government about whether what Trump was said to have done was a prosecutable crime. Those communications are potentially exculpatory.”
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That is an interesting take on it and should be taken into consideration.
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