Posted on 08/17/2023 9:33:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
When former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saw the indictment of Trump, she observed that, “it’s interesting to see how similar they are to some of the charges recommended by the January 6 committee and I commend, again, the committee.”
Soumya Dayananda, a senior investigator for the House Democrat committee claimed that, “the committee’s work provided this path.”
A New York Times article described the indictment as having a “narrative that was nearly identical”.
The Democrat prosecutor’s team admitted its dependence on the Democrat congressional committee by citing its work in its demand that the former president’s trial take place in early January 2024 so that it can overshadow the election and any potential inauguration.
The document filed by the Smith team claimed that it would produce materials to the Trump team including “unredacted materials obtained from other governmental entities, including the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol”. The filing also argued for the relevance of the “report written by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.”
Smith’s team was arguing that much of the evidence that it would introduce at trial had already been produced and made public by the House Democrat J6 committee. Trump’s team would receive the unredacted version of the materials and could then expect to be ready for trial.
It was a more official admission that the J6 indictment was just the J6 committee operating within the Justice Department and empowered to abuse the law by bringing criminal charges.
The media had described the House Democrat J6 criminal referrals as “historic.” They are historic in the sense that no partisan congressional committee had ever arranged to conduct a criminal trial of an opposing presidential candidate before.
That’s history of the banana republic kind.
The Democrat committee had issued four criminal referrals Three of the four charges in the indictment were adopted verbatim from the Democrat committee’s criminal referral. Smith swapped out the entirely unsupportable ‘insurrection’ charge for an anti-Klan law which among other things bans wearing costumes on highways.
All of this violates what Attorney Merrick Garland, who handpicked Smith to go after Trump, had promised. During his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings, Garland had assured his audience that no “politics would have any influence over prosecutions or investigations.”
“The president has promised that those decisions will only be made by the attorney general, and that is what I plan to do. I do not plan to be interfered with by anyone. I expect the Justice Department will make its own decisions in this regard,” he told senators.
“I want to make clear to the career prosecutors…that my job is to protect them from partisan or other improper motives,”
By the time the J6 committee circus was on their way, Garland was telling a different story. “I am watching, and I will be watching all the hearings, although I may not be able to watch all of it live,” he promised Democrats. “And I can assure you that the Jan. 6 prosecutors are watching all the hearings.”
“The Jan. 6 Committee Returns With One Viewer in Mind: Merrick Garland,” Time Magazine headlined its coverage.
AG Garland and his boys and girls were doing more than watching. The Justice Department contacted the House J6 lead investigator to let him know that his work “may contain information relevant to a criminal investigation we are conducting” and asked for transcripts....
And where exactly is the RICO behavior Garland? Staring you in the face from the mirror.
Daniel Greenfield ping
Yep, and we don’t even need to wrack our brains trying to come up with an “underlying crime” to support a RICO conspiracy charge. The underlying crime is, at the very least:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242
18 U.S. Code § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law
I’m sure the Republicans will condemn this “in the strongest possible terms.”
Uh, so all the records have been turned over to Trump, right? Oh, they destroyed them. Giving Kangaroos a very bad rap, they are.
The Constitution provides for presidents to be impeached and tried for high crimes and misdemeanors while in office. Trump was impeached by the House for crimes and misdemeanors related to January 6. He was not convicted in a Senate trial. Jack Smith and the DOJ indicting and trying him again in a federal court is holding him in double jeopardy which is not permitted under the Constitution. Why aren’t Trump’s lawyers standing outside the Supreme Court today?
It is impossible for Trump to get elite legal representation.
(1) Every lawyer in the USA knows they risk career destruction if they defend Trump. And - x10 risk - if they SUCCESSFULLY defend Trump.
(2) Every lawyer in the USA knows they will face criminal risk - like RICO indictments - if they defend Trump.
(3) Every lawyer in the USA knows they will face false personal accusations from former intimate partners and colleagues if they defend Trump.
The 57 staffers and the millions in spending meant that House Democrats and their paid personnel and outside investigators did the real work that Smith had dropped in his lap.
This was nearly the same arrangement as Russiagate, where work done by Hillary Clinton’s campaign was then deposited in the Justice Department and the FBI for a rubber stamp.
The Trump indictment is not the work of an apolitical DOJ, but of a Democrat committee. It’s not there to provide justice, but to define the election around a Democrat criminal proceeding.
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DOJ has operatives in all these local jurisdictions formulating the charges
Ron Klain and Marc Elias and Weismann of course
The usual modern Bolshie gang who show up everywhere from the big steal to now this
Pre-World War II Jews couldn't believe what was happening either... they felt Germany was 'too civilized' to become the horror it became.
The Trump indictment is not the work of an apolitical DOJ,
but of a salivating Democrat committee.
not to provide justice, but to elect Biden.
To define the election around a Democrat criminal conspiracy (Daniel Greenfield)
When there is no law, there is no law
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