Posted on 07/20/2023 8:21:59 AM PDT by bitt
Special Counsel Jack Smith leaked another report to The New York Times on Wednesday night.
This comes after the House Oversight Committee produced $17 million in bank receipts and witness testimony in the Biden Family bribery, corruption, and influence peddling schemes with foreign regimes.
Jack Smith is likely to use the same Civil War Civil Rights Violation that Merrick Garland and the DOJ have been using to send January 6 protesters to prison for years for non-violent crimes.
Again, this leak was reported Wednesday night after the damning testimony from this afternoon.
Federal prosecutors have introduced a new twist into the Jan. 6 investigation by suggesting in a target letter that they could charge former President Donald J. Trump with violating a civil rights statute that dates back to the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The letter to Mr. Trump from the special counsel, Jack Smith, referred to three criminal statutes as part of the grand jury investigation into Mr. Trump’s efforts to reverse his 2020 election loss, according to two people with knowledge of its contents. Two of the statutes were familiar from the criminal referral by the House Jan. 6 committee and months of discussion by legal experts: conspiracy to defraud the government and obstruction of an official proceeding.
But the third criminal law cited in the letter was a surprise: Section 241 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which makes it a crime for people to “conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person” in the “free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”
Congress enacted that statute after the Civil War to provide a tool for federal agents to go after Southern whites, including Ku Klux Klan members, who engaged in terrorism to prevent formerly enslaved African Americans from voting. But in the modern era, it has been used more broadly, including in cases of voting fraud conspiracies.
The Gateway Pundit spoke with DC Attorney Marina Medvin in April 2023. Marina represents several J6 defendants. Medvin described the unusual use of this Civil War Era law to use on protesters on January 6. It is unprecedented.
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The lawless Biden DOJ is currently using the charge to put peaceful protesters in prison for up to 20 years.
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All the guys who were saying “we need a civil war”, “we’re in a civil war” are mad that they’re being prosecuted under statutes created in response to a civil war.
Still not a Trump fan, but the Democrats are pulling every rabbit out of the hat to stop him. Its obvious Trump has something on them. I wish he would just play the “Trump Card” and put this all to rest.
Go eat a foot-long Jack.
Rasputin Smith is the one who needs to go to jail for playing politics with the law.
This is 100% political.
Smith like the rest of the fools are just making it up and piling it on
Best bets is they will arrest Trump after he has secured the nomination, thereby rendering the Republicans without a candidate.
Certainly they can figure out how to make it impossible for Republicans to field a second candidate.
What “Trump card”?
Looks to me like they could use that on the left for trying to cancel everyone they disagree with.
I hope he stops for gasoline often in DC.....
Show me the man and I will show you the crime.
The prosecutor has obviously been bribed just like President Retard
The DOJ and much of the Beltway cannot survive the consequences of their own deeds if Trump makes it to the general election.
The body politic really feels anything the DOJ did to Trump, and gave passes to anti-Trumpers, was well worth it to get him out of office from 2015 to date. They really do. They give bonuses and promotions to those who inflict damage to Trump from the institutions of government and funding - contracts to NGO'S that perform the same.
Trump should be charged with sinning.
Essentially, the target of a 4 year attempted coup, a rigged election, a conspiracy between the DNC, Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Media, is going to be charged with made-up crimes while the real conspirators and criminals walk free.
We all should.
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