Jack Smith’s Anti-Trump Deputy Excoriated For Inappropriate Behavior At DOJ

The Federalist ^ | 7/26/24 | MOLLIE HEMINGWAY

[CFW]

Former Attorney General Bill Barr did not improperly pressure prosecutors to reduce sentencing recommendations for political activist Roger Stone, according to a new government watchdog report. The exoneration of Barr came more than four years after a deluge of media reports alleging wrongdoing.

However, J.P. Cooney, a Justice Department official now serving as Special Counsel Jack Smith’s top deputy, cultivated a politically toxic environment, disseminated baseless conspiracy theories about Trump and his political appointees, and engaged in unprofessional conduct as he oversaw the team making sentencing recommendations, according to the same report.

Cooney is mentioned (as the “Fraud and Public Corruption Section Chief”) a whopping 394 times in the 85-page report released from the Justice Department’s inspector general on July 24. Cooney supervised a team of four attorneys who prosecuted Stone for what the government successfully argued in front of a Washington, D.C., jury were lies and obstruction during Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump campaign officials. Mueller’s two-year, $32 million investigation was itself spun up by anti-Trump officials in the Justice Department after the Democrat National Committee and Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton bought and paid for an information operation falsely alleging the Trump campaign was in cahoots with Russia to steal the 2016 election. Two members of Cooney’s team also worked on the Mueller investigation.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016election; 20240724; antitrump; barr; cooney; corruption; doj; dojig; dojigreport; dojsedition; enemieslist; igreport; jacksmith; jpcooney; malicious; mueller; muellerinvestigation; riverstone; robertmueller; rogerstone; russiahoax; stone; warontrump

[CFW]

Corruption runs deep in the DOJ. It's going to take more than four years to dig it out by the roots.

If Trump doesn't win in November, the corruption will then be so ingrained in our government that it will never be removed. At that point, we will just have to start working on splitting our country up into regions. United we will no longer officially be.

[ConservativeMind]

“It's going to take more than four years to dig it out by the roots.”

It won't when they are all fired.

[Brass Lamp]

United we will no longer officially be.

Cancer. You shouldn't want to just beat cancer down to a comfortable level so that you can stand to live with it. You should want to be separated from it completely.

[Albion Wilde]

DJT needs to demand resignation letters from all DOJ employees on Day One. He can put back a handful, trash three-quarters of the vacant slots, and backfill the remaining vacancies with republican attorneys from red states.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Words like “excoriated” are meaningless to me anymore. Is someone going to do something? No? OK, then spare me your outrage.

[CodeToad]

“Corruption runs deep in the DOJ. It’s going to take more than four years to dig it out by the roots.”

Nope. Just fire all 93 US Attorneys and their staff. Bill Clinton did in 1993.

[piasa]

New Prosecutor In Roger Stone Case Also Authored DOJ Letter Not To Prosecute McCabe
Sara Carter ^ | 02/20/20 | Sara Carter
Posted on 2/20/2020, 8:58:59 PM by Enlightened1

A top Department of Justice prosecutor who authored the letter informing former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s legal team that it would not file criminal charges against McCabe for lying to federal investigators, was the latest prosecutor added to DOJ’s prosecution against Roger Stone.
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[cpdiii]

This election is not between Trump and Kamala. It is between Trump and the Deep State of which Kamala represents.

[Fledermaus]

Bingo

[damper99]

Most can’t be fired. They are protected by civil service regs.