Thugs (Garland & Smith) masquerading as public servants: "The Department of Injustice drops BOTH cases against POTUS Donald Trump"
Nov 8th Update: Jack Smith requests a stay
Special Counsel Jack Smith asked a judge to ‘pause proceedings’ in Trump’s cases to assess ‘unprecedented circumstance.’ Jack Smi
@CollinRugg JUST IN: The Department of Justice and Jack Smith immediately end their cases against Donald Trump. The DOJ cited their policy that presidents can't be prosecuted however it was assumed they would work up until the "last day." "What's interesting here is that the DOJ is moving to end them even before he takes office, citing the longstanding DOJ policy that sitting presidents can't be prosecuted." "And there were some thought that maybe special counsel Jack Smith was going to sprint through the finish line, was going to work up until the last day, force Trump to fire him, wait till a new Attorney General was appointed." "But that does not appear to be the thinking inside the department.
Prison for Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, Matthew Colangelo...
The delay is a win for Trump, who is expected to be named the official GOP nominee for the 2024 presidential election later this month.
Ximena Bustillo at NPR:
Former President Donald Trump’s criminal sentencing has been delayed until Sept. 18 following a request from his legal team after the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity. The delay is a win for Trump, who is expected to be named the official GOP nominee for the 2024 presidential election later this month.
Trump’s sentencing was previously scheduled for July 11. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and prosecutor Matthew Colangelo were expected to testify on Capitol Hill the next day at the request of Republican lawmakers who have been critical of the trial. Prosecutors had previously said they were open to testifying, but only after the sentencing.
Trump’s legal team on Monday requested a delay in his sentencing after the Supreme Court ruled that presidents — as well as former presidents — have broad immunity from prosecution for official acts in office.
The next day, prosecutors for the Manhattan district attorney said in a letter to New York Judge Juan Merchan that though they believe the arguments for a delay are without merit, they will not oppose the request.
In the wake of yesterday’s Trump v. United States ruling at SCOTUS that grants Trump immunity for official acts, criminal sentencing for the business record falsification case People of New York v. Trump will now be on September 18th.
Welcome back to another episode of "This is how FOX News Lies to You", today we're looking at a story related to Trump's trial in New York City.
You may have heard that Michael Cohen, the prosecution's star witness, isn't a great guy. After all, he worked for Trump for decades, arranged the payments that silenced two women who wanted to tell their stories about having affairs with him, admitted to stealing money from Trump, and may have lied under oath to Congress and the courts. This is both true and, because he's the star witness in a criminal case against Trump, something that Trump and his allies in government and media would very much like you to know.
But how to get that message out without having to cover inconvenient facts like how he worked for Trump for a long time and how he did bad things that Trump asked him to do? Well, if you're FOX News, you get a Republican congressman to talk about it, then you cover only what the congressman said instead of doing any of your own reporting.
It's particularly noticeable in this article because once they switch gears to talking about Matthew Colangelo, one of the prosecutors who they believe is the link between the prosecution and the Biden Administration, suddenly they provide lots of information that didn't just come quoted from the mouth of a Republican congressman!
This is how FOX News collaborates with elected Republicans to lie to you. If they don't want to report the whole details of the actual story they'll just get a Republican somewhere to make a political statement and, instead of doing any reporting of their own which might get in the way of the convenient partisan narrative they want you to hear, they'll just put together a story out of the quotes they get and print it.
Anyways, here's the story in question, it's well worth a read so that you can see exactly what I'm talking about.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer vowed to “use every resource at our disposal" to ensure the Justice Department prosecutes ex-Trump attorney Mi
Conservative media told Jim Jordan to care about a conspiracy theory involving a prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney’s office. He’
Oh for crying in the sink.
Jim Jordan in pursuing his media career spoke with Bartiromo [who refused to share her wine].
She said, "Well, look, I mean, at this point, American citizens are asking, ‘What can you do about it?’ I mean, look, with all due respect, people are sick and tired of congressional investigations that go nowhere.”
Now Jim wants to investigate, pulls slip of paper out of hat, Matthew Colangelo.
Colangelo was involved in taking down the fake trump charity.
Because of his prior experience with trump, he got hired on Bragg's team in 2022.
So Jim is positing that this is a vast conspiracy backed by Biden to harm trump. I think. Tho it seems rather fuzzy.
"Conservative conspiracy theorists, however, came to believe Colangelo work in the Manhattan district attorney’s office was actually evidence of the Biden administration secretly pulling the strings in the hush-money case, as part of an elaborate election plot against Trump."
And soon thereafter:
"Steve Bannon took an especially keen interest in the matter, and just last week, he said he intended to “force“ Jordan to take the right’s Colangelo theories seriously."
There will be so much winning you will be tired of the winning.
Ex-president’s former communications director says Access Hollywood tape ‘was a crisis’ for his campaign
Victoria Bekiempis, Hugo Lowell, and Léonie Chao-Fong at The Guardian:
Hope Hicks, Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign press secretary, broke into tears on Friday while testifying in the ex-president’s New York criminal hush-money trial, hours after she described his complete control over the campaign.
Hicks, who cut a skittish figure in Judge Juan Merchan’s courtroom, is a key prosecution witness. She described Trump campaign staffers’ panic when a recording emerged in which Trump bragged about groping women. “This was a crisis” for his presidential bid, she said, describing the sentiment among the campaign staff.
Hicks also placed Trump squarely at the center of his campaign media strategy, telling jurors “we were all just following his lead”. The testimony marks a turning point for prosecutors, as she is the first Trump staffer with intimate knowledge of Trump’s campaign to testify about his alleged misconduct.
Prosecutors allege that he tried to use payoffs to bury stories that could harm his candidacy. While her name has come up at various points during the trial, Hicks’s placement of Trump in the middle of this alleged media strategy is a stunning development.
“Who overall was responsible for branding strategy?” prosecutor Matthew Colangelo asked.
“I would say that Mr Trump was responsible,” Hicks said. “He deserves the credit for the different messages that the campaign focused on in terms of the agenda that he put forth.”
Hicks – who reportedly had a close relationship with Trump until her anger about the January 6 insurrection surfaced – was clearly uncomfortable. When Hicks walked to the witness stand on Friday in the ex-president’s New York criminal hush-money trial, he traced her with his eyes as she passed him. Hicks, a willowy figure who crossed into the well with small steps, had a quavering voice as she introduced herself to jurors.
“My name is Hope Charlotte Hicks, and my last name is spelled H-I-C-K-S,” she said. Unsure the mic was picking up her voice, she said: “I’m really nervous.”
Hicks, who was repeatedly interviewed by Robert Mueller due to her longtime proximity to Trump, also served in the White House as his communications director.
When Hicks was questioned about the Access Hollywood tape that leaked in early October 2016 – in which Trump notoriously boasted that when a man is famous, he can “grab [women] by the pussy” – jurors were shown a transcript of the tape.
Asked what her first reaction was to receiving an email from a Washington Post reporter about the tape, Hicks said she was “very concerned” about the contents of the email, and the lack of time to respond.
She says she forwarded the email with the subject line: “URGENT WashPost query” to others in the campaign. “It was a damaging development,” Hicks said. “[The] consensus among us that this was damaging – this was a crisis.”
Former tabloid honcho David Pecker – whom prosecutors said colluded with Trump and Michael Cohen to bury stories that could hurt his campaign – said Hicks was present at the trio’s summer 2015 Trump Tower meeting.
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Hicks was also asked on Friday about a media inquiry from the Wall Street Journal, which was running a story in early November 2016 about AMI’s purchase of Daniels and McDougals’ stories – and failure to run them. Hicks said that she thought she had spoken with Trump after getting this inquiry.
Hope Hicks took the stand on Friday in the People of New York v. Trump election interference trial, and during her time on the stand, she described the period in the imminent aftermath of the release of the infamous 2005 Access Hollywood tape in which he was bragging about sexual assault (and not mere "locker room talk" like he described it as) was one that nearly ended Donald Trump's campaign.
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HuffPost: Hope Hicks Breaks Down In Tears During Trump Hush Money Trial
"First Cyrus 'Cy' Vance Jr (DA) has Mark Pomarantz (Special Assistant DA/Authr People vs Donald Trump author/Hillary's Attorney) and Dunne cracking the whip on him, then Schumer and Preetinder 'Preet' Singh Bhahara (US Attorney SDNY) show up at his Birthday in October to spank him - Matt Colangelo in December threatening to break his kneecaps- then the leaks and more leaks until he gives in with Cy Vance's garbage case. Uh....this won't be a swell time. This guy is going to find out Soros doesn't pay court costs or keep you out of prison. This in one pile of dog stuff he's going to be sorry he jumped into. Trump will be after his backside too. This man had better lawyer up."
House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) escalated Republicans’ investigation into the Manhattan district attorney’s indict
Exclusive: Jim Jordan Subpoenas Manhattan Prosecutor Who Resigned over Suspended Trump Probe April 6, 2023
House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) escalated Republicans’ investigation into the Manhattan district attorney’s indictment of former President Donald Trump by subpoenaing a prosecutor on Thursday who resigned from the office last year over the district attorney’s initial reluctance to pursue Trump’s case.
Jordan’s subpoena, reviewed by Breitbart News, directs Mark Pomerantz, who resigned from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office in February 2022, to appear before the committee for a deposition on April 20.
In a cover letter accompanying the subpoena, Jordan said his committee had legislative reasons to demand Pomerantz’s testimony.
“Congress has a specific and manifestly important interest in preventing politically motivated prosecutions of current and former Presidents by elected state and local prosecutors, particularly in jurisdictions—like New York County—where the prosecutor is popularly elected and trial-level judges lack life tenure,” Jordan wrote.
Pomerantz, a former special assistant assigned to the years-long Trump case, exited the Manhattan district attorney’s office right after Bragg took over. The move became a public affair when his resignation letter appeared in the New York Times last March.
Pomerantz wrote in the letter to Bragg that he believed Trump was “guilty of numerous felony violations” related to his financial statements and that he was
quitting because he thought Bragg’s decision at the time to “indefinitely” suspend the investigation into Trump was “misguided.”
Jordan observed, based on the resignation letter, that Pomerantz had “prejudged the results” of the investigation and that his critical words of Bragg seemingly sparked the district attorney to openly declare that the Trump investigation was “far from over.”
In November 2022, one week after Trump announced he was running for president again, the Times reported that Bragg had revived the Trump investigation and had zeroed in on a hush money scheme involving porn star Stormy Daniels and Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen.
“For Mr. Bragg, the hush-money developments suggest the first signs of progress since he took office at the beginning of the year, when he balked at indicting Mr. Trump in connection with his business practices,” the outlet reported at the time.
Pomerantz later went on to publish a book about the matter, called People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account, in which Pomerantz discussed internal concerns people had about the investigation and worries about the credibility of Cohen, a convicted felon.
“You describe your eagerness to investigate President Trump, writing that you were ‘delighted’ to join an unpaid group of lawyers advising on the Trump investigations, and joking that salary negotiations had gone ‘great’ because you would have paid to join the investigation,” Jordan wrote of the book.
He added that Pomerantz “frivolously” compared Trump to John Gotti, a notorious New York City mob boss, and described him as a “malignant narcissist.”
“The depth of your personal animosity towards him is apparent in your writing,” Jordan concluded.
The subpoena marks Republicans’ strongest move yet in its investigation of the New York County’s indictment of Trump amid questions from some about Congress’s authority to probe open state-level criminal matters.
It comes after Jordanfirst contacted Pomerantz on March 22 seeking his testimony, as well as documents and communication related to the Trump investigation.
Jordan in his subpoena cover letter referenced correspondence on March 25 from Bragg to Pomerantz, which Breitbart News has reviewed, in which Bragg instructed Pomerantz, a private citizen, not to provide Congress with any materials relevant to Pomerantz’s work at the district attorney’s office.
Pomerantz then told the committee on March 27 that he would be complying with Bragg’s instructions rather than Jordan’s requests.🙄
Jordan contended Thursday, however, that Pomerantz is “uniquely situated” to provide insight to the Judiciary Committee and that
he has “no basis to decline to testify” given he has already made detailed accounts of his work on the Trump probe widely public.
he House Judiciary Committee is expanding its investigation into the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office over last week’s unpre
EXCLUSIVE: House Judiciary Expands Investigation Into Manhattan DA Over Trump Indictment April 7, 2023
The Federalist: The House Judiciary Committee is expanding its investigation into the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office over last week’s unprecedented indictment of former President Donald Trump.
On Friday, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent a letter to Manhattan DA Senior Counsel Matthew Colangelo, shared with The Federalist, requesting a transcribed interview.
According to the New York Times in December, Colangelo was hired four months ago to “jump start” Bragg’s Trump investigations after years spent going after the former president at both the Department of Justice and the New York attorney general’s office.
“Given your history of working for law-enforcement entities that are pursuing President Trump and the public reporting surrounding your decision to work for the New York County District Attorney’s Office, we request your cooperation with our oversight in your personal capacity,” Jordan wrote.
Trump pled not guilty at the historic arraignment Tuesday against a 34-count felony indictment carrying a maximum 136-year prison sentence. The charges stem from 2016 hush-money payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels in a case prosecutors previously declined to pursue.
The weak nature of the case has led a dozen liberal law professors and Trump antagonists to call the prosecution a dead end.
The House Judiciary chairman reminded Colangelo of Congress’s authority to probe the Manhattan DA’s office after Bragg has spent weeks resisting lawmakers’ oversight requests. Fox News reported Wednesday the back and forth has led the Committee to consider issuing formal subpoenas for Bragg’s office. On Thursday, lawmakers pulled the trigger on a subpoena for Mark Pomerantz, a former prosecutor under Bragg who resigned last year over slow progress on efforts to arrest Trump.
Jordan revealed on Fox News Monday that Bragg conceded to lawmakers his office used federal funds in the Manhattan DA’s Trump investigation.
“The Committee may therefore consider legislation to enhance reporting requirements concerning the use of federal forfeiture funds and/or to prohibit the use of federal forfeiture funds to investigate a current or former President or presidential candidate,” Jordan wrote in the letter to Colangelo.
The committee is demanding Colangelo hand over documents related to his hiring and sit down for a formal interview. Colangelo was given until April 21 to provide lawmakers with a schedule of availability.
While the Manhattan DA’s office braces for aggressive oversight from House Republicans, members of Bragg’s staff deleted online profiles. The “Meet Our Team” page was also scrubbed from Bragg’s website.
Trump’s indictment last week drew immediate condemnation from House Republicans and the former president’s rivals in the 2024 primary but has been met with silence by Senate GOP Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
JAG fångar ytterligare en Alvin Bragg anställd; Marines i bakhåll på FEMA före orkanen Beryl i södra Texas
Michael Baxter
https://realrawnews.com/2024/07/jag-catches-another-alvin-bragg-staffer/
7 juli 2024
En tredje åklagare från New York County DA:s kontor – och hans make – har anslutit sig till Alvin Bragg och chefen för utredningsavdelningen Susan Hoffinger vid Guantanamo Bays interneringsanläggning Camp Delta för Deep State-fångar, säger JAG-källor till Real Raw News.
Förra veckan träffade…
Prominent right-wing media figures and others have reinvigorated their attacks against the lead prosecutor in former President Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial, Matthew Colangelo, with flimsy conspiracy theories and attempts to downplay the severity of Trump’s alleged crimes and to depict the case against him as tantamount to a political witch hunt.
On April 24, Axios documented Republican attacks against Colangelo since Trump’s criminal trial began, reporting that Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and other “top Trump allies on Capitol Hill have claimed that Colangelo, a former attorney with President Biden's Justice Department, left the DOJ specifically to go after Trump.” As the article notes, “Former DOJ official Michael Zeldin told Axios it's not unusual for a federal prosecutor to leave for a gig at the Manhattan DA's office.” (Indeed, a New York Times article about the hiring includes multiple explanations for why Colangelo was a good fit for the role; it also notes that he had already stepped aside as acting associate attorney general when a permanent associate attorney general was appointed.)
Axios also explains, “Such comments continued a pattern of Trump and his backers going on offense against those prosecuting him — and trying to link cases that aren't in federal courts to Biden, though the Justice Department isn't involved in them.”
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The focus on Colangelo goes back to April 2023, when Davis, founder of right-wing legal organization the Article III Project, appeared across right-wing media networks to falsely claim that Colangelo is the link between Trump’s New York hush money trial and the Biden administration.
MAGA propagandists are wrongly portraying Matthew Colangelo's job at the Manhattan DA's office as part of a grand conspiracy theory to attack his role as lead prosecutor in the People of New York v. Trump trial.
