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BREAKING: Jack Smith’s Top Hatchet Man in Trump Classified Documents Case Abruptly Resigns From Justice Department
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/ ^ | 1/5/2025 | Cristina Laila

Posted on 01/05/2025 8:23:53 PM PST by bitt

Jack Smith’s top hatchet man, Jay Bratt, abruptly resigned from the Justice Department last week, according to Deep State reporter and fake Trump-Russia dossier peddler Michael Isikoff.

Jay Bratt was one of the main prosecutors who spearheaded the Mar-a-Lago raid, he threatened a lawyer defending Trump’s valet driver and admitted the DOJ tampered with evidence.

Via Michael Isikoff for SpyTalk:

A top Justice Department national security prosecutor has become an early casualty of the incoming Trump administration, abruptly resigning from the department last week before incoming appointees can retaliate against him for his key role in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the former president.

The resignation of Jay Bratt, a career lawyer who served as chief of the counterintelligence and export controls section inside the national security division before being detailed to Smith’s staff, has not been publicly announced by the department.

But three sources familiar with the move described it to SpyTalk as a significant and even chilling event previewing a potential exodus of seasoned government lawyers and FBI agents who fear the wrath of Pam Bondi, Trump ’s pick for attorney general, Kash Patel, his intended nominee for FBI Director, and their expected army of MAGA loyalists in line to fill out top posts.

Recall that Jay Bratt threatened Stanley Woodward, an attorney for Trump’s valet driver Walt Nauta.

Jay Bratt tried to bribe Stanley Woodward and threatened him with a sinking judicial nomination if he didn’t get Walt Nauta to testify against Trump.

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1 posted on 01/05/2025 8:23:53 PM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 01/05/2025 8:24:09 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

Rats are jumping off the ship :)


3 posted on 01/05/2025 8:28:04 PM PST by Bobbyvotes (Congrats to Trump/Vance tea.m. America has been saved. For a while at least. )
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To: bitt

Rats running for safety.


4 posted on 01/05/2025 8:28:20 PM PST by madison10
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To: madison10

Maybe they could charter Assad’s plane.


5 posted on 01/05/2025 8:30:34 PM PST by Ken H (Trump 2024)
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To: bitt

I want every single one of the Rats to be electrocuted in the electric chair.

This was treason.


6 posted on 01/05/2025 8:31:11 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: bitt

Rats/Ship


7 posted on 01/05/2025 8:31:43 PM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: bitt

Criminal weasels are scattering.


8 posted on 01/05/2025 8:32:39 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Bobbyvotes

Bratt the rat can run - but he can’t hide from The Wrath of Trump.


9 posted on 01/05/2025 8:34:47 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: bitt

Gee. Why would he do a thing like that?

I hope I didn’t just misgender them.


10 posted on 01/05/2025 8:36:23 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: bitt

It is treason. Prosecute them.


11 posted on 01/05/2025 8:43:01 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: bitt

Hasta la vista sucker.


12 posted on 01/05/2025 8:43:52 PM PST by yldstrk
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To: bitt

Treason. Trials. Execution. If not, why don’t we turn the country over to China and assist them in killing everyone in Washington and connected to Washington and serve them. It is beginning to look like a better option than all of these guys getting off scott free so they can plan to kill us. Just an idea...I mean, nothing seems to happen to traitors....


13 posted on 01/05/2025 8:57:11 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: bitt

I wonder how many preemptive pardons are granted by the Chomo in Chief?


14 posted on 01/05/2025 8:59:32 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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Jack Smith’s top hatchet man abruptly resigned from the Biden Justice Dept last week.
<><>Jay Bratt was one of the main prosecutors who spearheaded the Mar-a-Lago raid,
<><>he threatened a lawyer defending Trump’s valet driver
<><>and admitted the Biden DOJ tampered with evidence WRT Classified Documents.


15 posted on 01/05/2025 9:09:22 PM PST by Liz ((This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. ))
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To: ConservativeMind

Wow!


16 posted on 01/05/2025 9:14:31 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Liz

lawfaremedia.org
by Quinta Jurecic, Tuesday, March 12, 2024
The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With Brookings

The Whitewashed “Hur Report” WRT Biden’s years-long handling of classified documents,
The well-rehearsed Biden’s convincing act for the gullible Hur kept Biden out of jail

Special Counsel Robert Hur is coming in for scrutiny from the press over his characterizations of President Biden’s memory. The special counsel’s report on Biden’s handling of classified information, characterized “significant limitations” in Biden’s memory during the president’s interview with Hur’s office.

Those limitations, in Hur’s view, justified a decision to decline to prosecute the president, despite Hur’s unflattering depiction of the volume of classified information discovered at his Delaware home and at the Penn Biden Center, and Biden’s mishandling of it.

Biden, Hur reasoned in his report, could be successful in presenting himself to a jury as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

But today, March 12, the full transcript of Hur’s interview with Biden was made public in advance of the special counsel’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.

And as reporters noted, the Biden of the transcript looks quite different from the forgetful Biden described in the report.

“Biden doesn’t come across as being as absent-minded as Hur has made him out to be,” wrote the Washington Post. Both the Post and the Wall Street Journal described the transcript as “more nuanced” than the report itself in terms of what it showed about Biden’s memory.

Yet there’s an irony to the media’s criticisms of Hur in light of the transcript. Overstated though his report might have been, Hur’s interest in Biden’s age was no match for that of the mainstream press itself.

Consider how the Times and the Washington Post covered the original report. “Special Counsel’s Report Puts Biden’s Age and Memory in the Spotlight,” blared the headline of a New York Times article, which described the Hur report as a “political disaster.”

The Washington Post characterized the mood among Democrats as “hair on fire.” By one tally, the Times and the Post each published over 30 stories about Biden’s age and memory in the days following the release of Hur’s report.

“IS BIDEN’S AGE NOW A BIGGER PROBLEM THAN TRUMP’S INDICTMENTS?” asked a CNN chyron two days after the release of Hur’s report.

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17 posted on 01/05/2025 9:20:15 PM PST by Liz ((This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. ))
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To: bitt
> ...army of MAGA loyalists...

How come the MSM never describes an "army of Marxist loyalists"?

Or even an "army of Progressive loyalists"?

No, no, it's always something like a "group of Democrat team members"....

18 posted on 01/05/2025 10:02:04 PM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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.. has become an early casualty of the incoming Trump administration,

He's not a casualty until he's been indicted, tried and found guilty and IN PRISON.

19 posted on 01/05/2025 10:15:53 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: bitt

see Jay Bratt jump.

jump Jay Bratt , jump.

see Jay Bratt run.

run Jay Bratt , run.


20 posted on 01/05/2025 10:17:58 PM PST by cuz1961 (Isaiah 53:3)
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