Posted on 01/10/2025 5:48:27 AM PST by MtnClimber
Alvin Bragg, Juan Merchan, Jack Smith, Merrick Garland and others plan to work until the bitter end to undermine the "peaceful transfer of power" the Democrats love to talk about.
So much for a peaceful transfer of power.
Despite a decisive victory representing at least a partial repudiation of the lawfare against him, President-Elect Donald Trump is spending money and time before Inauguration Day to fight politically-motivated judges and prosecutors in three criminal cases against him—an outrageous affront to American voters who elected Trump by a wide margin in November.
A New York appellate court judge just upheld Trump’s January 10 sentencing date set by Judge Juan Merchan in the business records case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in 2023. Merchan, a Democratic donor and father to the owner of a very lucrative Democratic consulting firm, is desperate to turn Trump into a convicted felon upon sentencing before he enters the White House.
Trump’s attorneys filed an application before the Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking a stay to the proceedings: Justice Sonia Sotomayor gave Bragg and Merchan until Thursday morning to respond.
Meanwhile, Special Counsel Jack Smith confirmed in a court filing on Wednesday that Attorney General Merrick Garland is in receipt of his draft report on both former cases against Trump: the January 6 case in Washington and the so-called classified documents case in Florida.
How Do You Write a Report on Dead Cases?
After the election, Smith moved to dismiss the J6 case, which was immediately granted by Judge Tanya Chutkan. Smith then dropped his appeal of Judge Aileen Cannon’s order dismissing the documents indictment after determining Smith’s appointment violated the Constitution. Both matters are dead letters.
But that’s not stopping Smith from trying to get the last word or Garland from helping him. “The Special Counsel has already transmitted his Final Report to the Attorney General. The Final Report comprises two volumes. Volume One relates to the Special Counsel’s investigation and prosecution of President Donald Trump relating to the 2020 presidential election (Election Case). Volume Two relates to the Special Counsel’s investigation and prosecution of defendants Waltine Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, as well as President Trump, relating to mishandling of classified documents. The Attorney General intends to release Volume One to Congress and the public…and in furtherance of the public interest in informing a co-equal branch and the public regarding this significant matter,” the DOJ disclosed in a brief filed Wednesday morning. (Emphasis added.)
The DOJ was responding to an emergency motion filed earlier this week by lawyers representing Nauta and De Oliveira, two Mar-a-Lago employees charged with obstruction and other counts in the documents indictment. Although Smith dropped part of the case related to Trump, the special counsel did not drop the case against Nauta and De Oliveira. (Trump’s DOJ presumably will do so in short order.) “The Final Report promises to be a one-sided, slanted report, relying nearly exclusively on evidence presented to a grand jury and subject to all requisite protections…in order to serve a singular purpose: convincing the public that everyone Smith charged is guilty of the crimes charged,” their attorneys wrote.
So in what the DOJ pretends is prudence but in reality only sets up the Democrats’ infamous leak machine in Congress, Garland plans to allow the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees to privately view volume two of the report as long as the proceedings against Nauta and De Oliveira remain active, the DOJ said.
That means Representative Jamie Raskin (D-Md) can see the report if the DOJ’s plan is allowed to proceed. Does anyone in their right mind think Raskin won’t immediately leak juicy details—or even misrepresent the findings—to his lackeys in the media?
The 11th circuit in Florida is now handling the matter on an expedited basis; more responses are due Wednesday night. In the meantime, Judge Cannon issued an order preventing the DOJ from sharing the draft outside of the department.
Hey AG Garland, What Happened to your Love for a Peaceful Transfer of Power?
President Trump also is fighting to block release of the report. In a letter to Garland, Trump’s attorneys demanded that the special counsel’s office “terminate all effort toward the preparation and release of this report.”
“[It] is clear, as has been the case with so many of the other actions of Smith and his staff, that the [report] merely continues Smith’s politically-motivated attack, and that his continued preparation of the Report and efforts to release it would be both imprudent and unlawful,” John Lauro and Todd Blanche, who represented Trump in the J6 case and documents case respectively, wrote to Garland on January 6.
The attorneys describe a rushed timeline that coincided with the December holidays along with accusations Smith’s team made secrecy demands, such as leaving behind electronic devices, before anyone could review the draft, which they did the first week of January.
Any report in advance of Trump’s inauguration, the attorneys argued, would violate the Presidential Transition Act, SCOTUS’s immunity opinion, and a separate SCOTUS opinion in Fischer v US, which reversed how the DOJ applied a post-Enron statute in J6 cases. (The statute, obstruction of an official proceeding, represents two of the four counts in Trump’s J6 case.)
Trump is not the only target of Smith’s report. It appears some of Trump’s nominees are subjected to “baseless attacks” in what the attorneys describe as an “obvious effort to interfere with upcoming confirmation hearings.” For example, Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee for FBI director, was chief of staff to the acting Defense Secretary on January 6, 2021; Patel will require Senate confirmation. Peter Navarro, who will not require Senate confirmation for his appointment as trade advisor, was sentenced to four months in prison on contempt of Congress convictions for refusing to cooperate with the J6 Select Committee.
“Smith’s proposed plan for releasing a report is unlawful, undertaken in bad faith, and contrary to the public interest,” Lauro and Blanche concluded.
If the DOJ releases Smith’s report before the inauguration, the move unquestionably represents an expedited timeline intended to dirty up the political waters before Trump is sworn in. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, for example, submitted a draft report on his investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election to then Attorney General William Barr on March 22, 2019; Barr released a redacted report on April 18, 2019.
Further, there is no need for a report considering the lengthy court record in each case. The docket in the documents case has nearly 700 briefs and orders totaling thousands of pages. A few weeks before the election, Chutkan allowed Smith to file an “unusual” brief about the J6 case that consisted of more than 2,000 pages. And the January 6 Select Committee, whose investigation focused entirely on Trump, released an 845-page report in December 2022.
What more could possibly be said?
“Jack Smith’s investigation has been politically motivated from the start,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Jordan (R-OH) told me through a spokesman. “From the unprecedented raid on Mar-a-Lago, to his appointment, to misconduct by his prosecutors, to mishandling the documents that were the basis for his investigation. The Washington Post even conceded that Democrats wanted the investigation so President Trump would face a ‘politically damaging trial before the election.’ Of course Jack Smith’s decision on when to release his report is based on politics.”.....SNIP
I hope President Trump has the DOJ go after these people for the real crimes they committed.
I hope President Trump has the DOJ go after these people for the real crimes they committed.
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If the new political Right is ever going to hold on to its gains (to say nothing of expanding its influence), then it’s going to have to embrace the lawfare of the Left.
Regarding the USSC decision....The idea that a Blackmail scheme by a well known filthy porn star....ranks higher than the Presidency of the United States is incomprehensible.
I hope that when Trump seeks “justice” for all these dems HE make it ALL public. Remember dems NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW right nancy? 200% return on stocks? Paaalease. No fraud there right nancy? S/O
This will not be retaliation since the dems set the rules.
Dems maybe you should ask Ashley Biden abt how her father Joey took NASTY showers with her growing up OR the women like Tara Reade who claimed, along w others, that Joey raped her or the other VILE things Joey does that the dems cover up. So dems don’t want a rapist in thew WH. Well, they already have 1 and a child molester too. And check out the Office of Compliance Hush Money bill signed in 1995 with 268 settlements so far paid for by OUR tax dollars (17.2 MILLION).
Dems are upset abt Trump and Stormy? At least HE used his own money Conyers and the dems have used OUR tax dollars to help them get re-elected and look pure while being charged with vile deeds by others. Let’s be TRANSPARENT and look at the 268 settlements. WHO are the elected leaders who were charged and WE PAID SETTLEMENTS for to keep them in office? I bet dems “settled” w all these people to get RE-ELECTED. Just like they are claiming abt Trump.
I did not know if you were aware of this law that was passed re paying TAX DOLLARS for misconduct of our elected officials. I guess Trump should have paid Stormy with THIS money. Just like Congress does. Here is my response to the article listed above. In 1995 a bill was passed by the Office of Compliance. It allows our elected officials who are charged with discrimination, including sexually, to get paid settlements with OUR TAX DOLLARS. (at least Trump used his own money). As of 2017 there were 268 settlements made and it cost the taxpayers $17.2 MILLION dollars. So if they put Trump in jail for Stormy then ALL of the reps that had charges brought against them should be in jail too. THAT is NOT going to happen.
THIS is no secret. Here is 1 story. https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/congress-has-paid-17-million-in-sexual-misconduct-and-discrimination-settlements-1513307017 Congress has paid $17.2 million in sexual misconduct and discrimination settlements Amazing how dems are so SELECTIVE in attacking those they want to eliminate and yet they protect their own isn’t it? I bet very few people know abt this. Justice for ALL no longer applies to repubs anymore. Dems hide what they they do while accusing repubs of misdeeds.
Evil often has a way of backfiring.
You assume Trump so much as touched the skank.
It was that two-bit perjuring lawyer who originated the paper-trail.
All four women on the court, plus Roberts, are rank cowards and enemies of freedom. It is nauseating to think of the millions of Americans killed and maimed on battlefields, only to have Communists in black roes trample upon their graves.
Barrett and Roberts, what weaklings you are!
As long as they can keep Jack Smith in town long enough to detain him as a flight risk.
He could be a foreign agent, planning to take refuge with his patron the ICC.
That’s reason enough.
Communists never sleep
These lib losers are criminally mentally ill. No surprise. What’s new?
Trump will not fight. He never has. He never will.
Trump is a deal maker. If his enemis won’t deal, he does nothing. That is the message of all of his first term and up until the last moment of the interim. He hjas done nothing except play his enemies game
Unfortunately the people you mentioned are not intelligent enough for the positions they hold.
You are correct about the three Dems, but Barrett is intelligent. She is either a quivering mass of cells or an agent of evil. Roberts is a simp, a white dude for Harris.
I hope they let Jamie Raskin see the report and then monitor all his communications, including a bug on his person. Catch the rat leaking and throw him in jail for a long, long time!
Trump is a germophobe. No way Stormy passed the physical required for Trump to touch her.
Now that Presidential Trump is technically a convicted felon, Biden could have the ATF break down the doors to his homes and seize his personal firearms. It could even happen TODAY!
Education and intelligence are two different things.
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