How Trump Received Preferential Treatment & Evaded Justice
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis reveal explosive new details from their book “Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department.”
Key Revelations:
đ¨ The “Arrest Him Tomorrow” Moment: After the Mar-a-Lago raid on August 8, 2022, FBI agents recovered highly classified documentsâsome so sensitive that even national security experts with top clearances couldn’t view them. That night, Assistant Attorney General Matt Olson asked his team: “What do we do now?” Julie Edelstein, an encyclopedic expert on mishandling classified records, responded: “If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow.”
đ The Documents Case: Prosecutors called it a “slam dunk” caseâevidence was on surveillance tape, texts, and in FBI vans. Yet Trump received special deference as a former president.
â¸ď¸ The 60-Day Freeze: Attorney General Merrick Garland demanded investigators freeze the classified documents investigation for two months before the 2022 midtermsâeven though Trump wasn’t on the ballot. This shocked people inside DOJ.
âď¸ The Judge Cannon Problem: Prosecutor David Raskin warned that Judge Aileen Cannon was “an existential threat to the case.” When the case was assigned to her, one attorney said: “We’re screwed.”
Plus: Why DOJ didn’t know about Cassidy Hutchinson until her public testimony, and how the January 6 Committee was ahead of federal investigators.
Merrick Garland’s Incompetence Helped Trump Evade Justice
The Mueller Report established that Trump Obstructed Justice on at least 10 occasions. Merrick Garland proved to be a WIMP who helped destroy our country by failing to file charges against Trump and failing to arrest him for Instigating an Insurrection, Obstruction of Justice and plus other charges. Ultimately it’s Biden’s fault for running for president in 2020 when he was too old and for picking Merrick Garland.
Merrick Garland’s Fatal Mistake: How DOJ’s Bottom-Up Approach Let Trump Escape Justice
Prosecutors Lay Out 6 Crimes Trump Could Be Indicted For Right Now
A pair of former prosecutors and legal scholars, writing for NBC News, have laid out the 6 most obvious crimes that they believe Donald Trump has committed â crimes that they insist he could be indicted for right now if it came down to it. There are the obvious ones that have been revealed in recent weeks, then there are plenty that most people have forgotten about because they feel like ancient history in the growing scandal timeline that Trump has created.
Trump should be indicted for at least six crimes and banned from politics: legal experts
Donald Trump should be facing prosecution for a half dozen crimes, according to a pair of legal experts, but instead he’s preparing for another presidential run that he just might win.The twice-impeached president has raised $122 million, more than twice the amount of the Republican National Committ…
Per the above article: âTrump should be indicted for at least six crimes and banned from politics: legal expertsâ
Donald Trump should be facing prosecution for a half dozen crimes, according to a pair of legal experts, but instead heâs preparing for another presidential run that he just might win.
The twice-impeached president has raised $122 million, more than twice the amount of the Republican National Committee, ahead of the 2024 presidential campaign that he shouldnât even be eligible to take part in, argued former White House ethics attorney Richard Painter in a new column for MSNBC.
âThe 14th Amendment, Section 3, disqualifies from public office anyone who took an oath of loyalty to the United States and shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof,â Painter argued in a forthcoming law review article with Claire Finkelstein, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
âCrimes for which Trump could be indicted include but are not limited to,â Painter and Finkelstein wrote,
â(1) obstructing justice as identified in the Mueller investigation
(2) bribing and/or extorting Ukraine with military aid to investigate his political opponent Joe Biden and conduct another investigation undermining the Mueller investigation,
(3) coercing cabinet members and other federal employees to engage in partisan political activity in violation of the criminal political coercion provisions of the Hatch Act,
(4) soliciting election fraud in a phone call to the Georgia Secretary of State in November 2020,
(5) criminal sedition in authorizing preparation of the unsigned draft Executive Order dated December 16, 2020 pursuant to which President Trump would have ordered the Secretary of Defense to seize voting machines in certain states to look for evidence of election fraud, and
(6) inciting insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. These alleged politically-related crimes are over and above the financial crimes being investigated by the Manhattan DA, who has already indicted the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer.â
Trump is President and evaded justice because Merrick Garland was incompetent and failed to do his job. The entire world is having to endure Garland’s mistakes.
Trumpâs Niece Calls Merrick Garland An Idiot For Not Prosecuting Her Uncle
Even before Donald Trump appeared to admit to obstruction of justice during a Fox News interview, his niece, Mary Trump, did an interview where she said that Attorney General Merrick Garland was an âidiotâ for not prosecuting her uncle. Sheâs right. Thereâs no excuse for investigations to not be immediately launched into so very many of Trumpâs activities from when he was in office, but Garland doesnât seem to care one bit about any of that.
Legal Expert: DOJ Must Immediately Conduct âFull-Blownâ Jan. 6 Probe
Laurence Tribe calls on his former student, Attorney General Garland, to take action over Trumpâs role in the insurrection: âIf Merrick Garland has not yet ginned up a full-blown investigation, he should do so yesterday.â
âCowardiceâ: Elie Mystal slams AG Garlandâs lack of urgency with Bannon case
âIt speaks to cowardice. He is happy to indict the foot soldiersâbecause that is easy. It is comparatively harder to investigate, and prosecute, and charge the people who planned it, the brains behind the operation,â says Elie Mystal on AG Merrick Garland. âHe doesnât seem to have the gumption to do it.â
Trump Corruption of DOJ Lingers Under Garland, Risks Precedent
Rachel Maddow reviews the abuse of the Department of Justice by Bill Barr in sacrificing justice to serve the political needs of Donald Trump, and notes that rather than cleaning the department with accountability for indulging that corruption, Attorney General Merrick Garland is apparently punishing none of it and even continuing some of it, risking a precedent that will surely be embraced by the next corrupt president.
Former Federal Prosecutor Lists Potential Crimes Trump Committed
Former Federal Prosecutor Glenn Kirschner explains how Failure to Prosecute could be a CRIME in itself⌠violation of 18 U.S. Code § 3 âAccessory after the factâ.
âWhoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the factâ.
The Merrick Garland Justice Department offered two of Ahmaud Arberyâs killers plea deals on hate charges.
Arbery family attorney Lee Merritt said in a statement late Sunday that Arberyâs parents, Wanda Cooper-Jones and Marcus Arbery, âvehementlyâ oppose the deals and said so directly to the U.S. Justice Department earlier in the day.
The deals, Merritt said, would let the McMichaels serve the first 30 years of their terms in âa preferred federal prison.â Merritt said that would be a âhuge accommodationâ to âthe men who hunted down and murderedâ Arbery. He added that Arberyâs family is âdevastatedâ over the proposals and âtheir wishes are being completely ignored.â
Merritt quoted Cooper-Jones as saying, âThe DOJ has gone behind my back to offer the men who murdered my son a deal to make their time in prison easier for them to serve. ⌠I have been completely betrayed by the DOJ lawyers.â Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke told CBS News on Monday that the Department of Justice âentered the plea agreement only after the victimsâ attorneys informed me that the family was not opposed to it.â Merritt said Cooper-Jones would appeal to the court Monday to throw out the deal.
Earlier this month, the DOJ approached Cooper-Jones about a plea bargain that would have both McMichaels admitting that what they did was motivated by hate, according to Merritt. Cooper-Jones told âCBS Morningsâ she rejected the deal because she wants the men to stand trial in court for those charges.
MY OPINION OF GARLAND IS SHARED BY MANYâŚ
Law group calls on Merrick Garland’s removal from DOJ for failure to hold Trump accountable
In face of mountainous evidence that Trump incited an insurrection, the attorney general faces growing pressure
Law group calls on Merrick Garlandâs removal from DOJ for failure to hold Trump accountable
In face of mountainous evidence that Trump incited an insurrection, the attorney general faces growing pressure’
Garland Would’ve Been a Great Justice. He’s Not a Great A.G.
He still has time to find his footing, but so far the man and the moment haven’t aligned.
Merrick Garland Wouldâve Been a Great Justice. Heâs Not a Great A.G.
Time to Say “You’re Fired” to Merrick Garland?
It’s time for the Biden administration to put someone in Merrick Garland’s position who will fight for our republic and the rule of law
Time to Say âYouâre Firedâ to Merrick Garland?
Itâs time for the Biden administration to put someone in Merrick Garlandâs position who will fight for our republic and the rule of law
Opinion: Merrick Garland’s E. Jean Carroll misstep | CNN
Elie Honig writes to anyone hoping that former Attorney General William Barr’s replacement, Merrick Garland, will methodically undo the deep structural harm done by his predecessor: don’t hold your breath. Thus far, Garland has been too timid in his approach, and he seemingly has no plans to become the anti-Barr.
Merrick Garland has no plans to become the anti-Barr | CNN
Elie Honig writes to anyone hoping that former Attorney General William Barrâs replacement, Merrick Garland, will methodically undo the deep structural harm done by his predecessor: donât hold your breath. Thus far, Garland has been too timid in his approach, and he seemingly has no plans to become the anti-Barr.
FEC drops investigation into Trump hush money payments
The Federal Elections Commission (FEC) has closed its investigation into whether former President Trump illegally made hush money payments to women prior to the 2016 election. The FEC voted 4-1 to close the inquiry after failing to find that Trump or his campaign “knowingly and willfully” violated campaign finance law when his former attorney Michael Cohen paid…
FEC drops investigation into Trump hush money payments
The Federal Elections Commission (FEC) has closed its investigation into whether former President Trump illegally made hush money payments to women prior to the 2016 election. The FEC voted 4-1 to close the inquiry after failing to find that Trump or his campaign âknowingly and willfullyâ violated campaign finance law when his former attorney Michael Cohen paidâŚ
Why Is Merrick Garland Defending Donald Trump?
Is there any limit to what Garland will allow Trump to get away with?
Why Is Merrick Garland Defending Donald Trump?
Is there any limit to what Garland will allow Trump to get away with?
