Posted on 01/01/2025 6:01:58 AM PST by MtnClimber
Matthew Graves, appointed by Joe Biden in 2021 to lead the most powerful U.S. Attorney's office in the nation, steps down but not before leaving behind a legacy of human wreckage.
Two weeks after the U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia in November 2021, Matthew Graves indicted longtime Trump confidante Steve Bannon on contempt of Congress charges.
The move represented how Graves would conduct himself in office. As the nation’s capital descended into a deadly and dangerous crime wave, Graves, also responsible for prosecuting local violent crime, devoted most of his resources to doing Joe Biden’s political dirty work: rounding up, charging, and imprisoning Americans who protested the 2020 election on January 6, 2021.
Graves today announced he will resign effective January 16, 2025. In a lengthy press release, his office bragged about Graves’ success in managing what the Department of Justice calls the “Capitol Siege” probe into the events of January 6:
On January 6, 2021, a violent mob of several thousand individuals stormed the Capitol and the United States briefly lost control of the grounds around the Capitol and much of the Capitol, itself. More than 140 law enforcement officers were injured during the siege of the Capitol, making it the largest single-day mass assault of law enforcement officers in our nation’s history. These events triggered the largest investigation in DOJ history. To date, roughly 1,600 people have been charged in connection with the attack with almost 1,100 having already been sentenced for their conduct. There have been over 170 contested trials with the United States prevailing in more than 99% of them. These convictions include the first seditious conspiracy convictions since the trials stemming from the first bombing of the World Trade Center in the 1990s. Because politically motivated violence and destruction rip at the fabric of our society, Mr. Graves made federally prosecuting such crimes a priority.
Equally as destructive to the “fabric of our society” are politically motivated prosecutions that destroy innocent lives while destroying public trust in the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency. It will take decades to repair the institutional damage caused by Graves and his superiors, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, in their vengeful pursuit of Donald Trump and his supporters.
In fact, Graves reckless handling of J6 matters forced higher courts to rein in his abuses. Last June, the Supreme Court overturned how Graves applied 18 USC 1512(c)(2), a post Enron obstruction statute, in at least 300 J6 cases. And the D.C. appellate court twice reversed excessive sentences sought by Graves: unlawful “split” sentence of prison and probation for low level misdemeanants and a separate sentencing enhancement for (now) unlawful obstruction convictions....SNIP
If this guy is smart, he and many others involved with the persecution and incarceration of any non-Republican Americans who happened to be in WDC on J6 are turning their assets into cash and arranging to immigrate to a non-extradition country.
The ‘many others’ mentioned above includes FBI & CIA agents, lawyers for the prosecution, any LEOs involved in the incarcerations, etc. Even if not legally culpable they should spend the rest of their days watching their backs.
Someone needs to flag his passport
MFer needs to go down!
Who said, Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime?
I’m figuring someone should be able to find something on this azz wipe!
So if Trump’s DOJ goes after him, he will face a DC jury, correct? I’m not very confident about a conviction if that is the case.
TARGE NUMBER ONE with indictments for malicious political person using the color of law to enact. One year sentence for each count. By mine, that’s at least 300.
Hunt that bastard down! No safe space for him and his lackies!
But the AUSAs under him will still be there. His accomplices must be investigated and prosecuted as well. These AUSAs are not political employees and will claim civil service protection. However it’s generally been these people that covertly continue the leftist agenda. They are the ones leaking to the press and spreading misinformation. The only way to deal with these people is to first identify the worst offenders and begin the process of investigations. They must be put on the defensive or we will soon be in the same position at DOJ in the near future.
The first step is to investigate which will obviously cause him to spend money on his defense.
Then, any abuses that he allegedly committed will be made public in the indictments.
He’s one of the “Baddies”.
Like that other vretin, Mark E, they took the money to wreck other people.
This wasn’t ideology, or fighting the good fight.
This was evil shiiite done by evil people.
While at the same time Graves accelerated the pace of charges against Americans even for nonviolent, harmless participation in the Capitol protest, he refused to partner with Special Counsel David Weiss in 2022 to bring tax charges against Hunter Biden. Graves and his wife, Fatima Goss Graves, have close ties to the Biden White House. Graves worked at the same law firm with Doug Emhoff, Kamala Harris’ husband, before Biden took office; Fatima Goss Graves, who runs a radical leftwing nonprofit in Washington, has visited the Biden White House at least 40 times since her husband became U.S. Attorney.
He would have to get a divorce to do that. His wife is all DC mover and shaker.
This creep and Andrew Weissman deserve to share a suite at the Grey Bar Hotel, with Bubba as their “buddy.”
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