The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that the charges against the New Jersey Democrat will be unsealed at 11 a.m. Friday. President Joe Biden appointed the prosecutor behind the charges, Damien Williams.

The indictment involves “charging Robert Menendez, U.S. senator from New Jersey, and his wife, Nadine Menendez, with bribery offenses in connection with their corrupt relationship with three New Jersey businessmen,” the U.S. attorney’s office noted.

A press event will be held today at 11:00 a.m. to announce the unsealing of an indictment charging Robert Menendez, U.S. Senator from New Jersey, and his wife, Nadine Menendez, with bribery offenses in connection with their corrupt relationship with three New Jersey businessmen. pic.twitter.com/CLTXnU0mAm

— US Attorney SDNY (@SDNYnews) September 22, 2023

NBC News reported Monday that FBI and IRS criminal investigators are investigating whether Menendez or his wife had taken up to $400,000 in cash, gold bars, payments toward a home mortgage, a luxury vehicle, and more from Fred Daibes, a New Jersey developer and former bank chairman, or his associates. Daibes allegedly bribed Menendez to reach out to the Justice Department and aid the “admitted felon” accused of banking crimes.

This is a breaking story and will be updated.

The odds against Hunter ever actually facing jail time are astronomical. Leftists simply play one legal game after another until either the judicial clock runs out, or the emotions of their opposition are eventually exhausted, as enthusiasm levels are continually ratcheted up, only to be let down when “prosecutors” reveal that they have no real intention of seeking decisive action.

That’s how Hillary Clinton, the Nation’s number one career criminal, walks the streets as a “free” person in 2023, despite having engaged in a lifelong pattern of selling influence from every single position of power she ever held throughout her sordid time in office. Surely, such blatant misuse of government assets and power, reaping tens of millions in solicited bribes from her personal computer server (No, it wasn’t about Chelsea’s wedding plans), should have resulted in prosecution for high crimes and treason. Except that Hillary knew she could count on the equally flagrant corruption of others in high office such as former FBI director James Comey, along with the fecklessness of those on the Right who might actually be in pursuit, to give her cover.

In like manner, Hunter has little to worry him. Nor does the Biden/Obama crime cabal have any reason to expect any sort of diligent “follow up” from all this, which might lead to their own criminality being scrutinized and pursued. Instead, Conservatives now look to exact any sort of punitive action against Hunter, desperately hoping to spotlight it as “validation” of their efforts to uncover crimes and treason on the left. In this, the entire exercise appears increasingly desperate and petty.

“Something is better than nothing” we are told. But is it really? Are we not far better off focusing on the real crimes committed by the Biden/Obama cabal in the White House, from the Afghanistan sellout to the Taliban, in which American interests were totally betrayed in front of the rest of the world, to the ongoing “revolving door” of billions being sent to Ukraine, with so much of it ending up back in leftist Democrat coffers. Against all of this, any slap on the wrist meted out to Hunter Biden is less than merely inconsequential. Rather it is an enormous slap in America’s face.

Meanwhile, the thoroughly politicized and weaponized “Justice” system is being unleashed with a vengeance on law-abiding and honest Americans, for the purpose of silencing their efforts to warn the Nation of the consequences of the stolen 2020 Election. A relentless “Witch Hunt” is still being waged against anyone who was even remotely involved in the January 6 episode at the US Capitol.

Despite the fact that, at worst, a relative handful of people may have been guilty of trespassing, and the overwhelming majority of those were manipulated into entering the premises by the duplicitous coordinated actions of leftists, in conjunction with a large cadre of FBI infiltrators, the goal is to exact such enormous penalties on those individuals, and to so publicly disgrace and attack them, that nobody will ever again muster the nerve to confront leftist election fraud, regardless of how flagrant and pernicious it might be. Even discussing the theft that Americans all witnessed is becoming “taboo,” which is the surest means of establishing such behavior as the primary method of determining “leadership” in American government going forward.

Yet these despicable precedents go far beyond the single outrage of the 2020 Election theft, abhorrent as it may be. With one national election already wrested from the voters, and America put into the clammy tentacles of the “Deep State” through all the 2020 fraud and chicanery, the Nation teeters on the brink of forever losing any vestige of self-government by the people.

Already, so much of the electoral process has succumbed to the raging propaganda blitzes and censorship of the leftist Fake News crowd. Yet even that has lost its ability to totally manipulate and blind the populace at large. So increasingly, Americans must be told which ideologies they ostensibly embrace, followed up by every possible effort to manipulate vote tabulations in order to match the approved talking points of the state propagandists. Once that milestone is achieved, the plan is to loudly proclaim that Americans wholeheartedly embrace the squalor, oppression, and brutality of socialism, citing the manipulated vote counts and ballot stuffing as “proof,” and threatening severe repercussions against any who dare disagree.

This is the nightmarish future currently facing America, if leftists are able to continue their onslaught unabated. And given such a prospect, it should be obvious that no amount of official chastisement against Hunter will lessen the existential threat facing our Nation. It is therefore incumbent on all concerned Americans to brush aside the Hunter situation, and focus on the real crimes and treason being committed on a daily basis by the Biden/Obama Cabal. It is those things which portend an eventual end to the greatness of America, if the cancer they represent is allowed to remain in place and continue to spread amongst us.

Bio

Christopher G. Adamo is a lifelong conservative from the American Heartland. He has been involved in grassroots and state-level politics for many years, seeking to restore and uphold the Judeo-Christian principles on which our Nation was founded. His book, “Rules for Defeating Radicals,” is the “Go To” guide for effectively confronting and overcoming the dirty tricks of the political left. It is available at Amazon.

Free speech, and even freely expressed protests against perceived wrongs committed by the government pose no inherent threat to it, but only if it seeks to abide lawfully within the framework established for it at the founding of the Nation. When those in high office are operating with integrity, no amount of truth can be a detriment to them. In fact, if government somehow becomes detached and attempts to be isolated from accountability to the citizenry, a righteous rebuke can have a cleansing effect on it.

Of course everything changes, once efforts to corrupt the scope and function of government gain a toehold from within. And any honest appraisal of the growing monster inside the Beltway must concede that it passed that milestone a long time ago. Currently, the efforts of honest Americans, from national figures down to the farmers and shop keepers on Main Street, are to figure out how to rein in the malignancy that has supplanted government “Of, By, and For the People.” American Government is now fully at war with the American people.

The stage was actually being set throughout the past several decades. It is hard to know exactly when the boundaries of propriety and legality were breached, but by the 1990s, Bill Clinton was already weaponizing the IRS against his political enemies. George W. Bush did little to bring anyone to accountability, and actually allowed several corrupt, agenda-driven Clinton appointees to remain in office. That turned out to be the ugly reality of his “New Tone.”

Of course everything went onto steroids under the thoroughly corrupt and vindictive administration of Barack Obama. While some gullible minions believed his plans to “fundamentally transform” America would usher in a golden age of socialist “utopia,” the grim reality was a thoroughly corrupted and weaponized DOJ and FBI, along with virtually every other government agency. They now wreak havoc on the Constitution and Bill of Rights with each passing day. Clearly, America is no longer the “Land of the Free.” Transformation nearly complete!

Yet the evil entity supplanting our Constitutional Republic is hardly invincible. And the increasingly outrageous behavior of its detestable “inner circle” proves that its members know it. As they get ever more vile and extreme in their actions, they become more paranoid. A such a juncture, the single thing that strikes the greatest fear into an illegitimate government is a general awareness of its illegitimacy among those subjugated to it. The latest attacks on President Trump stand as inarguable proof of this!

From 2016 to the present, leftists from those little Twitter trolls all the way up to candidate Hillary Clinton and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, made regular accusations against President Trump, claiming for every absurd reason that he should not be in the White House. And while they were annoying, he wasn’t overly bothered by them, since he knew his position was secure and he had the National Mandate he needed to pursue his promise of “Making America Great Again.”

Claims that President Trump was lawfully defeated in an honorable and secure election in 2020 stand in stark contrast to the obvious absurdities of the nearly non-existent Biden “campaign,” as well as the outrageous events of Election Day, and the early hours of the morning after. From that point forward, the leftist/Globalist monster that illegally wormed its way into power has been on an obsessive quest to silence every threat posed by the least suggestion of its treasonous behavior.

These latest bogus “indictments” may be totally beyond any sense or reason. Yet in one respect, they are totally predictable. Having committed the vilest of attacks on our Nation in its history, there is no turning back. Leftists have no option but keep pressing forward in order to escape accountability. So the attacks are an inevitable continuation of the previous crimes and propaganda. A return of the President to the White House in January 2025 would portend the total unmasking of the Deep State, and accountability for the guilty. This is a risk they simply cannot afford to take. So any means of preventing it is within the realm of possibility.

“Special Counsel” Jack Smith, the current attack dog sent to bring down President Trump (though he is certainly operating under orders from much higher up), is now attempting to silence President Trump and all the evidence that might be unearthed during the discovery phase of any upcoming trial. Leftists viciously attack the President of the United States with every bogus accusation they can concoct, and then try to keep the facts of the situation from being made public!

Predictably, Smith plays the “victim,” claiming that Trump’s warning “If you go after me, I’m coming after you!” is a threat. And on this basis, the Swamp seeks to hide its sedition during his first term and the realities of the 2020 Election somewhere behind the same closed doors as the “mysterious” death of Seth Rich, the “suicide” of Jeffrey Epstein, and the sequestering of the entire “client list” of perverts and rapists who visited his infamous island. Do we see a pattern here? This outrage is not only against President Trump, but every decent, honest American!

“Republicans” who ignore the flagrant criminality of the DOJ/FBI and join in with this abomination of justice are either proving their allegiance to the anti-America ideology of the left, or are such shameless opportunists that they are willing to see President Trump taken down, believing they can then restore their insipid Republican Establishment with its totally self-serving “Business as Usual.” In either case, the real message Americans should take away from this is that the corruption is “bipartisan,” and needs to be expunged from both sides of the aisle.

Either way, the one benefit of this ugly moment in the course of our Nation is that the mask is coming off of both camps. Leftists can be seen as the imminent danger to the American ideal that they are, and the RINO enablers prove themselves to be dupes and lackeys who ultimately do the bidding of the enemy. Going forward, neither camp can ever again credibly claim to be the voice of “We the People.”

Bio

Christopher G. Adamo is a lifelong conservative from the American Heartland. He has been involved in grassroots and state-level politics for many years, seeking to restore and uphold the Judeo-Christian principles on which our Nation was founded. His book, “Rules for Defeating Radicals,” is the “Go To” guide for effectively confronting and overcoming the dirty tricks of the political left. It is available at Amazon.

Mr. Ramaswamy announced the lawsuit, filed in district court in Columbia on Aug. 1, in a statement on Twitter, now known as X.

The GOP 2024 presidential candidate accused the DOJ of having failed to “substantively respond” to his FOIA request to “uncover what White House officials, including President Joe Biden, communicated to [Attorney General] Merrick Garland and [special counsel] Jack Smith about the unprecedented indictment in the classified documents case of a former U.S. President and one of Biden’s political opponents in the 2024 Presidential election.”

The Epoch Times has contacted the Justice Department for comment. The biotech entrepreneur said he is also filing a new FOIA records request for more details regarding “any similar communications” relating to the recently-issued indictment against Mr. Trump.

On Tuesday, a grand jury convened by special counsel Smith to investigate the former president and his allies’ alleged attempts to dispute the 2020 election charged Mr. Trump in a 45-page indictment (pdf).

According to the indictment, Mr. Trump was charged with both conspiring to impede the Jan. 6 congressional proceeding and of attempting to obstruct and obstructing the certification of the electoral vote. He is also charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy against the rights of citizens.

The indictment also lists six alleged unnamed co-conspirators, four of whom are attorneys and one of whom was a Department of Justice official.

Indictment ‘Pathetic’ Trump Says

The indictment against the former president acknowledges that all Americans, including Mr. Trump, have the right to speak publicly about the election and even claim that he won. Mr. Trump said he was also “entitled to formally challenge” the election results, the indictment states.

However, Mr. Trump, prosecutors wrote in the indictment, knew his claims about winning were false but “repeated and widely disseminated them anyway — to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate, create an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger and erode public faith in the administration of elections.”

He also allegedly “pursued unlawful means of discounting legitimate votes and subverting the election results,” prosecutors said.

The Trump campaign has called the new indictment “the latest corrupt chapter in the continued pathetic attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their weaponized Department of Justice to interfere with the 2024 Presidential Election, in which President Trump is the undisputed frontrunner and leading by substantial margins.”

‘Dangerous Precedent’

Mr. Ramaswamy, in his lengthy post on X, claimed the indictment against Mr. Trump was based on “unprecedented legal theory” citing the U.S. Supreme Court case U.S. v. Alvarez, which held that political candidates even have a First Amendment right to make inaccurate statements knowingly.

“If you’re going to indict a former president and leading presidential candidate, it better not be based on unprecedented legal theory,” he said. “Further, it’s more than a stretch to call something criminal if someone is seeking legal counsel from their own lawyers.”

“Jack Smith has created a dangerous precedent by criminalizing the behavior of Trump’s lawyers who offered him legal advice, labeling them co-conspirators instead,” Mr. Ramaswamy continued. “This jeopardizes the future of our legal system. If we fail to admit the truth, Jan 6 will just be a preview of far worse to come. We must reunite this country, but the path forward will not be easy.”

According to his lawsuit (pdf) Mr. Ramaswamy—who has vowed to pardon the former president if elected—first submitted a FOIA request to the DOJ on June 12, 2023.

The request was for “documents and records in DOJ’s possession related to the decision to bring a federal criminal indictment” against Mr. Trump after he was indicted by a grand jury in Miami on 37 felony charges, including the willful retention of national defense information and conspiring to obstruct justice. That indictment followed a separate DOJ investigation.

Mr. Ramaswamy notes that FOIAs require a federal administrative agency to “promptly make available” the requested documents within 20 working days of them being requested, except for in the case of “unusual circumstances” under which 10 additional days are granted. However, more than 30 days have passed since he first filed the FOIA, the Republican 2024 candidate said.

“The Campaign accordingly brings this suit to compel DOJ to immediately respond to the Campaign’s FOIA request and promptly disclose all responsive, non-exempt records,” the filing reads.

Mr. Ramaswamy’s lawsuit against the DOJ comes after he settled a separate lawsuit with the World Economic Forum (WEF) after accusing the organization of falsely and inaccurately associating him with their “Young Global Leaders” program.

Mr. Ramaswamy settled the lawsuit for an unknown amount and has vowed to donate the settlement money to a conservative nonprofit, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), “because it stands for American interests against the WEF agenda.”

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Smith secured a four-count indictment of Trump relating to his efforts to contest the results of the 2020 election after he previously secured a 37-count indictment against Trump in June based on an investigation into allegation surrounding classified documents, which was supplemented with a superseding indictment issued Thursday that included charges against Carlos De Oliveira, a maintenance worker at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida estate owned by former President Trump. Trump was ordered to appear before a federal magistrate Aug. 3.

“I read the indictment very carefully. There is no smoking gun,” Dershowitz said. “There is no one who is credibly prepared to testify that Donald Trump said to him, ‘I know personally, I lost the election.’ There’s a lot of evidence people told him he lost the election, but you know Donald Trump and you know he’s gonna make up his own mind and they’ll have a very hard time proving it. Now, it’s the District of Columbia, 90-someodd percent of the jury pool will have voted against him. So, they may actually get a conviction from a D.C. jury, but will it survive appellate review and review in the Supreme Court? I don’t think so.”

“This indictment strikes me as an amateurish joke. Frankly, Jack Smith, the special counsel, should be indicted for stupidity, it’s that bad,” Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said. “But he has this disreputable habit of bringing politically-driven prosecutions by contorting the law and mangling the evidence.”

Smith prosecuted then-Republican Gov. Bob McDowell of Virginia over receiving gifts, and secured a conviction on multiple charges that the Supreme Court unanimously threw out in 2015.

“I’ve never seen an indictment this messy and sloppy in my life,” former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker said. “Really at the end of the day, they are saying it is not, it should be a matter of what Donald Trump thought or didn’t think but instead, they tried to use a reasonable person test to suggest that because Director [of National Intelligence John] Radcliffe, Attorney General Barr and others had told president that he lost, somehow, no reasonable person would believe that.”

“It’s a junk indictment and it is politically motivated,” Jarrett said.

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The saddest thing was watching Dementia Joe Biden stumble out of the White House in cuffs, as remaining federal agents finally arrested him for decades of corruption involving quid-pro-quo schemes that enriched his family by selling the powers of his various offices to the highest foreign bidders.

Oh, right — none of that happened, because the Deep State and those in bed with the Deep State protect their own.  At this point, anybody not being attacked or politically persecuted should be presumed as secretly working for some shady enterprise hostile to the best interest of the United States.

Yet somehow special counsel Jack Smith has the temerity to stand before the American people, announce the federal government’s continuing crusade to keep President Trump from office, and shamelessly declare, “We have one set of laws in this country.”  Right.  What he really means is, “The Deep State controls America, and if you mess with those gangsters, we’ll lock you up and throw away the key.”  Jack Smith — like Robert Mueller, Andrew Weissmann, so many inspectors general who ignore crimes under their purview, and too many partisan political operatives posing as judges — is just another thug enforcer sent out to protect the ruling regime.  Well done, Jack!  Collect your thirty pieces of silver and career advancement as your reward!

It wouldn’t be election season without the Department of (in)Justice setting people up and prosecuting fake crimes to influence voters.  In 2016, while shutting down numerous criminal investigations involving Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation, D.C.’s lawfare-waging politburo concocted an elaborate hoax blaming Russian internet trolls for her embarrassing loss to a political outsider.  Two weeks before the 2018 midterms, the FBI arrested a mentally unstable and childlike Cesar Sayoc for allegedly threatening Trump opponents with pipe bombs made in his van/home.

Just before the 2020 election, the FBI announced that it had stopped a kidnapping plot against Democrat governor Gretchen Whitmer — a “plot” that was planned primarily by undercover federal agents.  And the DOJ and FBI “carpet-bombed” Trump associates with J6 subpoenas, announced more J6 protester arrests, and improperly raided the former president’s Mar-a-Lago home in the run-up to the 2022 midterms.  Covering up the crimes of Democrats, framing domestic political enemies, and engaging in blatant election interference are what the FBI and DOJ now primarily do.

That’s also why Clueless China Joe is so certain of his re-election victory, when a super-majority of the country is worse off since his installation and strongly want him gone.  Even many of his Marxist fellow-travelers and World Economic Forum foreign enablers have been looking at his cratering poll numbers and inability to take two steps without face-planting and have begun expressing a sense of urgency that the brain-dead doofus be replaced on the Democrat ticket.

Obama insiders and the Deep State praetorian guard, however, are all smiles while doing their best Hans Gruber impressions and calmly responding, “You ask for miracles.  I give you the F…B…I.”  It is true that “exceptional thieves” are just as common in the Justice Department these days as in the Die Hard movie franchise.

While the DOJ goes after Joe Biden’s principal 2024 opponent, the old corrupt codger is looking to repeat his election strategy of 2020 — which is to say, he will hide in some undisclosed basement and watch as the Deep State’s criminal element rigs another election his way.  We’re watching history in the making.  In 2020, quid-pro-quo Joe — a politician who would have struggled to win an election outside of his native Delaware — “won” more votes than any candidate in American history while hardly campaigning.  In 2024, the corrupt Department of (in)Justice will just prosecute his rivals, until he’s the only candidate left.  Some might call that kind of system indistinguishable from the Chinese Communist Party’s stranglehold over their people — and the Obama Marxists running America into the ground all say, “Isn’t it great?”

After the protests for free and fair elections on January 6, 2021, the federal Leviathan hunted down and locked up any dissenter with a voice.  Going into the 2024 election, it will hunt down and lock up any dissenter who refuses to obey the one-party State.  If foreign countries engaged in the same behavior as D.C.’s corrupt “elite,” they would be publicly pilloried and ostracized as enemies of “democracy.”  Everything the hypocrites in D.C. claim to abhor, they do every day.  Censorship, political persecution, and rigged elections — it’s the new American way!

So much for all those dire NeverTrump warnings about the America First political outsider destroying precious civic norms with his behavior.  The Uniparty RINOs fanning themselves on fainting couches claimed President Trump would lock up his enemies, start nuclear wars, destroy the economy, betray conservative voters, and put family members on the Supreme Court.  Instead, he presided over the most consistently conservative administration in a hundred years, brought jobs home, increased middle class incomes, avoided new foreign wars, saved what’s left of the Constitution from an increasingly activist Court, and tried to pursue a policy of national reconciliation by refusing to punish those who sought to topple his presidency.  Clearly, his capacity for forgiveness has been rewarded only with more malicious villainy aimed at keeping him down permanently.

This is about so much more than just an election.  This is about taking a stand against outright political tyranny.  It’s about defiance.  It’s about rage.  It’s about refusing to surrender meekly.  It’s about refusing to board the trains or aid those who wish to load them with our silent complicity.

According to investigative journalist Paul Sperry, they may not have anything to back up their “bombshell”:

Sources say Special Counsel Smith does not actually have the supposed “smoking gun” doc Trump is heard on an audio talking about, which means he cannot prove it is classified and thus prove Trump knew it was classified. Prosecutors have no real evidence to show jurors.

BREAKING: Sources say Special Counsel Smith does not actually have the supposed "smoking gun" doc Trump is heard on an audio talking about, which means he cannot prove it is classified and thus prove Trump knew it was classified. Prosecutors have no real evidence to show jurors

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) June 10, 2023

Admittedly, I am not a legal expert, nor do I pretend to be one on Twitter. But from what I’ve been told an important part of prosecuting someone in a court of law is having actual evidence. Again, not an expert.

He retweeted the thread below by Matt Beebe that delivers an analysis of the indictment of President Donald J. Trump. It offers insights into what powers the president possesses over classified documents that are relevant to what we’re seeing today…

Deep dive on the classified document fiasco: The entire classification scheme is a *control system* established by Executive Order and therefore applicable *only* to people below POTUS.

As CINC, Trump was entitled to do *anything* with classified material while President. Let that sink in.

Surely he would be subject to impeachment for any alleged misuse, but his authority is inherent in the Constitutional position, and there are no statutory restrictions that apply to him*.

*NOTE: The Atomic Energy Act, which established a separate classification & control scheme for certain US nuclear secrets, purports to also apply to POTUS. But this actually presents interesting separation of powers issues that aren’t so cut & dry. It’s not relevant here though.

The primary classification scheme promulgated by EO also prescribes a mechanism where classified material can be declassified.

Declassification doesn’t change the nature of the information, it changes the control system & procedures applicable to the information which are obligatory to non-POTUS actors. Again, this process is not binding on POTUS. Otherwise his power as CINC is dependent & conditional, not inherent.

Think about it — if he has the inherent power to do whatever he wants with it, does he need to follow a process (that he controls)? Does his compliance with every jot & tittle of a process (that he controls) impair his right to determine the disposition of that material? No. It cannot, or it’s not a power inherent to the Presidency.

Trump’s ham-handed explanation of this as “thinking it” declassified notwithstanding, and his inability to clearly articulate the finer points of the classification & control system and how it interacts with Article II powers doesn’t make it any less true.

This brings us to the Presidential Records Act (and subsequent case law), which clearly grants the President unilateral authority to determine what he keeps as a “personal record.”

Wait, this seems like a disaster waiting to happen — how can he be allowed to keep marital that might still be marked classified or a subsequent administration might decide to control differently? It’s quite a minefield with a bunch of inter-related gotchas.

And that’s the quandary that the PRA sought to avoid— by granting a former POTUS clarity and wide latitude surrounding his records.

To be sure, there are national security implications with a POTUS keeping material that remains sensitive or a subsequent administration might deem subject to different classification and control rules. This is why NARA has SCIFs, this is why Presidential Libraries have SCIFs, this is why a former President identifies “records custodians” (who receive continued security clearances), and this is why former Presidents are generally granted security clearances (Biden Administration refused to grant Trump a clearance by the way)

Bottom line: there is no legal basis for any of the mishandling/wrongful possession claims, and any bonafide national security concerns presented are able to be handled amicably through various procedures.

Which then beings us to the obstruction claims:

I’m somewhat disappointed in his apparent willingness to play games with NARA/DOJ (who were clearly out to get him, not to preserve Presidential Records).

My sense is that he really didn’t know what he still had, wanted to personally filter the material, and was ensured he could consider them all personal records, so he handled the initial NARA/DOJ requests unseriously. (Nobody steps on rakes better than Trump)

And I am troubled by his alleged comment to his lawyer which was essentially “Hillary had liars for lawyers and they made her problems go away, <wink-wink>” — which, by the way we only know about because of an unconstitutional piercing of the attorney-client privilege. (This should honestly concern more people than it does)

But you can’t “obstruct justice” unless there is an underlying crime. Which there isn’t here.

The entire case is built on a stack of lies and will eventually result in his complete and total exoneration.

But at what cost? It’s a dark, dark day in America.

Which then beings us to the obstruction claims:

I’m somewhat disappointed in his apparent willingness to play games with NARA/DOJ (who were clearly out to get him, not to preserve Presidential Records).

My sense is that he really didn’t know what he still had, wanted to…

— Matt Beebe (@TheMattBeebe) June 9, 2023

It is the darkest of days we’re facing, and it’s only going to get worse if this travesty is not resolved.

“Everything is on the table,” said a committee spokesman when asked by The Epoch Times if a subpoena and potentially an additional contempt charge against FBI Director Christopher Wray or other top [DOJ] officials could result if the documents demanded in Jordan’s June 9 letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland aren’t produced. Jordan has been pressing Garland and Wray for related documents for months but has yet to get them.

The abnormalities of the Mar-a-Lago raid were described to congressional investigators during a June 7 transcribed interview with Steven D’Antuono, the FBI’s former assistant director in charge of the Washington Field Office and, according to the Jordan letter, “one of the most senior FBI officials in charge of effectuating the unprecedented raid.”

“During his testimony, Mr. D’Antuono expressed strong concerns with the department’s pursuit of the raid and noted several unusual features in the department’s handling of the case,” Jordan told Garland. “Mr. D’Antuono, who had over two decades of FBI experience, noted his frustration that the FBI was going to be ‘left holding the bag again’ with respect to the search of President Trump’s residence.

“During his transcribed interview, Mr. D’Antuono detailed how he disagreed with the Justice Department’s approach to the raid and described several abnormalities about the Department’s actions in pursuing its investigation of President Trump.”

Among the abnormalities described by D’Antuono was the fact the Mar-a-Lago action was carried out by the FBI’s Washington Field Office, not the Miami Field Office, which would normally be assigned because of the Mar-a-Lago location.

D’Anuono, according to Jordan, told the committee that “FBI headquarters made the decision to assign the execution of the search warrant to the Washington Field Office (WFO) despite the location of the search occurring in the territory of the FBI’s Miami Field Office. Mr. D’Antuono stated that he had ‘absolutely no idea’ why this decision was made and questioned why the Miami Field Office was not taking the lead on this matter.”

D’Antuono pointed out to the committee that bureau officials told special counsel John Durham that field offices, not FBI headquarters, should run investigations.

Another abnormality was the fact no U.S. Attorney was assigned to the case even though that was standard FBI operating procedure.

“He explained that he ‘didn’t understand why there wasn’t a U.S. Attorney assigned’ and ‘raised this concern a lot with’ department officials because this was out of the ordinary,” Jordan told Garland. “Mr. D’Antuono indicated that he ‘never got a good answer’ and was told that the National Security Division would be handling this matter.”

D’Antuono said Jay Bratt, who leads the DOJ’s counterintelligence division, functioned as the lead prosecutor on the case. Jordan noted in his letter that “Mr. Bratt is the same department lawyer who allegedly improperly pressured a lawyer representing an employee of President Trump.” He was referring to an allegation by a former Trump lawyer that Bratt was pushing another Trump attorney to become a witness against the former president.

Multiple ‘Abnormalities’ in FBI Raid

A third abnormality alleged by D’Antuono was the fact FBI line agents opposed the use of a search warrant to force entry to Mar-a-Lago, and preferred that government officials obtain prior consent from Trump before entering the premises. Jordan told Garland that D’Antuono “indicated a belief that either you or Director Christopher Wray made the decision to seek a search warrant, despite opposition from the line agents working this case in the WFO.”

A fourth abnormality was related to the third, that the FBI agents at Mar-a-Lago did not wait for the presence of a Trump lawyer before entering the former president’s residence. “Mr. D’Antuono testified that the FBI sought to exclude President Trump’s attorney from the search, a move with which Mr. D’Antuono disagreed,” Jordan told Garland.

As a result of D’Antuono’s testimony, Jordan told Garland he wants “all documents and communications referring or relating to meetings between FBI and Justice Department officials prior to the execution of the search warrant on President Trump’s private residence, all documents and communications referring or relating to the execution of a search warrant on President Trump’s private residence, including those sent or received by the following FBI and Justice Department Officials, and all documents and communications between or among Washington Field Office agents and employees and the U.S. Secret Service about a potential search of President Trump’s residence.”

Wray barely averted a possible congressional contempt citation earlier this week when he agreed to allow members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability to view an unclassified FBI document describing an informant’s description of evidence that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter accepted bribes from a Ukrainian energy executive while Biden was vice-president.

The Epoch Times has requested comment from DOJ but none was received by publication time.

Senator Mike Lee reminded us of the facts Thursday night:

Remember: Biden personally green-lighted the raid on Trump’s home.

Remember: Biden personally green-lighted the raid on Trump’s home. https://t.co/52YgsVLQ3R

— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) June 9, 2023

According to Mike Davis:

Biden waived Trump’s claim of Executive Privilege. Deputy White House Counsel Jonathan Su relayed Biden’s order to the National Archives. This led to Garland’s unprecedented, unnecessary, unlawful home raid on Trump. For presidential records Trump was allowed to have.

Do NOT let anyone try to convince you the indictment of a sitting president’s political opponent has anything to do with the rule of law. This is how a banana republic operates.