Posted on 08/03/2023 8:53:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Looks like there are more problems with that indictment from Special Counsel Jack Smith, even as it just getting started with the arraignment of former President Donald Trump on Thursday.
Trump entered a not guilty plea to the four counts, which included conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
According to a report from CBS News’ Catherine Herridge, Tim Parlatore, who is the attorney for former NYPD Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, provided records to Jack Smith on July 23. Parlatore thinks the Special Counsel may not have reviewed records before indicting Trump because he thinks those materials are exculpatory.
A source close to Kerik’s legal team said at the time that they believed the records, which include sworn affidavits from people raising concerns about the integrity of the 2020 presidential contest, show there was a genuine effort to investigate claims of voter fraud in the last election.
In an Aug. 2 email to Parlatore, reviewed by CBS News, a special counsel’s office prosecutor requested “responsive documents as to which the Trump campaign is no longer asserting a privilege,” referring to the Kerik records Parlatore said he previously provided.
Parlatore said he was “stunned” when, after the indictment came down, the prosecutor contacted him asking for the records he said he had already provided. Parlatore said the “records are absolutely exculpatory.”
“They bear directly on the essential element of whether Rudy Giuliani, and therefore Donald Trump, knew that their claims of election fraud were false,” Parlatore said. “Good- faith reliance upon claims of fraud, even if they later turn out to be false, is very different from pushing fraud claims that you know to be false at the time.”
Parlatore used to work for Trump but left in May.
But if, indeed, those materials are exculpatory and Smith proceeded anyway, that doesn’t say a lot about his case or his process. If Trump is pursuing all these efforts to prove fraud, it does tend to show he has an honestly held belief. That puts a big hole in an indictment that was already flawed, and seemingly based on going after him for his beliefs. We’ve already seen legal experts like George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley and former prosecutor Andy McCarthy casting doubt on the flawed nature of this latest indictment. Not to mention how Republicans aren’t allowed to doubt election results. For them, now, it’s seemingly a crime. Yet Democrats can take all kinds of actions to question elections, and they will not be pursued with criminal action like this.
Some now believe after all the flurry of lawfare, that this isn’t so much about obtaining a conviction against Donald Trump as much as it is about taking up Trump’s time and money to defend the endless actions. That way you incapacitate him as a candidate even if you can’t convict him on the evidence, and Democrats get what they want — they hold onto power.
obama judge don’t care about no exculpatory evidence, mofos!
We court system now!
It’ll be interesting if this goes to the Supreme Court. The same Supreme Court that refused to hear anything related to election fraud in 2020.
It seems the DOJ’s case rests on proving that Trump knew the election was totally legitimate, but nonetheless opposed the results and publicly claimed they were not legitimate results (thus the crime of fraud).
Seems like quite a stretch, but then again, they have a woke DC deep-state jihadi judge and a DC jury.
On the other hand, as one lawyer for Trump said - that means we get to publicly re-litigate and demonstrate, in court, and under no time pressure as in 2020 - ALL the fraud that took place in Nov. 2020.
Does America’s KGB (the DOJ) really want that?
RE: It seems the DOJ’s case rests on proving that Trump knew the election was totally legitimate, but nonetheless opposed the results and publicly claimed they were not legitimate results
The prosecution are pining their hopes on the testimony of Mike Pence, who apparently was ( likeJames Comey ) taking notes in his private conversations with Trump. They are hoping that Pence will sell out Trump and tell them that IN PRIVATE,Trump knew that he lost but still told him not to help certify the results of the 2020 election.
It’s the exact same game plan they had when he was in the white house. Tie him up in knots so he can’t move up down or sideways and make him use up resources. I hate these people.
She's a David Boies judge. That's even worse!
Boise represented Al Gore in his election challenge in Florida in 2000. She later worked for Boies in his law firm.
It is the highest form of hypocrisy to work for the man who challenged the Florida election and then sit on the bench trying a man who challenged an election.
-PJ
Maybe but a chance this takes more than a few bad turns for the bad guys
Federal prosecutors repeatedly hide exculpatory evidence from the court. They did it in General Flynn’s case. Look how they tried to hide the sweet immunity deal inside Hunter Biden’s plea agreement.
Socialists foundation of everything they do: By Any Means Necessary / The Ends Justify the Means
These are the times that are beginning to show why CBS hired catherine herridge 2-3 years ago
Bookmark.
I missed Catherine Herridge when she left FAUX but I don’t miss FAUX.
She was a ray of light in the faux fog
This will never happen. The Judge won’t let it. They just want to cripple Trumps ability to run for 3023.
Another point is dissecting the concept of whether Trump “knew” he lost. The argument could be made that Trump knew he lost but in the tangible sense, that according to the news personnel and what the presented vote numbers showed, he “lost” while believing that he actually won but “lost” due to fraud. Pence is a garbage human if he is trying to parse these meanings to help trap his old boss. It won’t work. This is a case of “What definition of “is”, is.
Why would Dems care if Trump runs? He’s never won an election without Hillary on the ballot. Dems want to keep Americans at each others throats and their base motivated. That is all.
Robert Barnes
@barnes_law
You can’t feloniously subvert the electoral process by trying to make sure the actual choice of the voters holds office. #TrumpIndictment
12:30 AM · Aug 4, 2023
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