CBS News' Catherine Herridge: Attorney Points to Big Problem With Trump Indictment—Allegedly Exculpatory Evidence

Red State ^ | 08/03/2023 | Nick Arama

[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.

[odawg]

“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.”

Which brings up the subject of adam schiff. How is it that the little POS can willfully lie in public, in the halls of Congress, and avoid indictment. He tried to overthrow the election of a president.

He literally did, over and over, what Trump is falsely accused of.

[Dr. Ursus]

She’s an acknowledged Trump hater!

[Sirius Lee]

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.

Deep state election interference Part III.

[Ex-Con777]

>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.<

Precisely and succinctly put. Bravo.

What a juicy line of questioning it could make from the Trump team to any witness. Start by listing all of the lawyers working with Boies, including Judge Chutkan, and ask if any of them have been brought up on similar conspiracy charges.

EC

[MCSETots]

Seems like the DOJ is batting a thousand for not using exculpatory evidence in any of the DTJ cases.

Prolly just a coincidence . . .

[Dan in Wichita]

Just wondering here to myself...

Regardless of the evidence, did Stalin ever lose a trial?

[Parley Baer]

“obama judge don’t care about no exculpatory evidence, mofos!

We court system now!”

Exculpatory evidence?? Who knew there was such a thing in this Banana Republic.

[gitmo]

CBS said that? Hooda thunkit?

[OrioleFan]

Pence has now become the face of the deep state. Obama is pleased.

[Political Junkie Too]

To be clear, she didn't work for Boies in 2000 when he defended Gore. She joined the Boies law firm in 2002, two years after the Gore election challenge. It was still fresh news as George W Bush was only two years into his term.

She clearly had no problems work for a man who once challenged an election in court, having done so only two years later.

-PJ

[1Old Pro]

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.

Could be, everything they've thrown at him to date as been false and malicious.

[bitt]

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[Candor7]

Why is Bucky Joe Biden and his buck buck, wannabe commie colleagues at FBI and DOJ so sensitive to claims that 2020 election was fraudulent?

They strive to silence ALL who say it was a stolen election, banishing any freedom of speech rights of anyone who says so publicly. They even went after Peter Navarro because he published a document that reveals the fraud, the Navarro Report....( https://peternavarro.com/category/the-navarro-report/ )

That Biden led sensitivity is unparalled in US history, and the logical extrapolation for this unconstitutional witch hunt of the Jan. 6 so called insurgeants ( false flag victims), and President Trump and his team is:

THAT THE ELECTION OF 2020 WAS INDEED STOLEN.

And whats more, the public knows it now after this last bogus indictment of Presidemt Trump. Jack (off) Smith is looking like a complete supercilious, over reaching , conspiratorial ninny, now, derided and ridiculed by both Democrat and Republican attorneys.

So what is their next step after their epic failures to stop PDJT from running and winning office? These dirty rotten bastardly deep state (DOJ/FBI/CIA)leftists and globalists will try to assassinate President Trump, and so he needs to have the absolute best intel and the very absolute best security.

GO MAGA!

AND MAY DIVINE PROVIDENCE protect President Trump and his family from these third world equivalent, tin pot tyrants.

[Liz]

For anyone who lived through Election Night 2020, and watched Trump winning comfortably at 11:00 P.M. EST, only to lose that massive lead by the following morning, skepticism about the election will always remain intense. (And it seems more people are getting skeptical by the day.)

That skepticism is hardened by stories of municipalities that actually stopped counting during the night and reopened with large Biden pluralities.

One precinct actually reported fewer votes for Trump when they rebroadcasted.

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Millions of people saw this. But the media’s narrative is
that all this came to us directly from Donald Trump
and was evidence of HIS wrongdoing.

[sauropod]

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CBS

CA

We put the I in CIA...

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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.

It's mutual, they hate you, too!