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Link: Ouch.
illustrates the corruption in Trump's DOJ that Baron is trying to 'Project' onto Biden...the Chapter is entitled "It's Time for You Guys to Even Things Out"...
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On August 8, 2018, our offiice charged Chris Collins, a Republican congressman from New York, with insider trading and making false statements to federal law enforcement agents. It was just two weeks later that Michael Cohen surprised us by pleading guilty rather than face felony indictment.
These two events occurred as we were looking into possible criminal conduct by Greg Craig, a prominent DC lawyer, a Democrat, and the White House counsel for the first year of the Obama administration. We were still in the midst of a careful process to determine if there was a basis for charging him when Rob Khuzami got a call from Ed O'Callaghan at Main Justice.
This is the episode that I touched on briefly in the preface. Even as I think about it now, it remains no less stunning and disturbing, and in this chapter I'll give it the fuller exploration it warrants.
O'Callaghan wanted us to charge Craig as soon as possible, before the midterm elections that November, because we had recently prosecuted a couple of Republicans. "It's time for you guys to even things out," he said.
When Khuzami walked into my office right after this call to inform me about it, I asked Audrey Strauss to join us. After the three of us got through expressing our disbelief at the impropriety and outrageousness of O'Callaghan's demand, we talked about how to respond to it. We had no trouble agreeing among ourselves: it would have no weight in the decision we reached, and no influence on its timing.
What I could not know at the time was how determined Main Justice was to see Craig face a jury and the extremes they would go to in order to make that happen.
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Fast forward to the end of the chapter....(note: the SDNY under Berman declined to prosecute, so Main Justice got the DC office to take on the case)...
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The government alleged that Craig lied about his interactions with the media. He countered that he had no reason to, because he was confident that his underlying actions broke no laws. "If anybody was going to talk to The New York Times, it was going to be me," he said. "I was not acting in the interest of Ukraine. I was defending the integrity of the the report."
The trial went on for two and a half weeks.
It took less than five hours for the jury to return with a verdict of not guilty.
Outside the courthouse, William Taylor, one of Craig's lawyers, spoke to the media. "Why, after the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York rejected this prosecution, did the Department of Justice decide it had to hound this man and his family without any evidence and without any purpose?" he said.
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That's how you politicize our DOJ...not that a flimsy case was lost...but that it was done to "Even Things Out"...and as you've read, there are named witnesses to this travesty.
Before anyone alleges similar behavior by the Biden administration, make sure you have named witnesses and evidence behind such a claim.
The courts will settle things.
Like they did when the GOP chanted “lock her up” for years. No crime committed.
We’ll see if the same holds for Trump.
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Why has Hunter not been charged with anything? Why were partner lobbyists, neither licensed, selectively prosecuted depending on whether they worked with Trump?
Some people are above the law in this country, and you support that, and it is total fucking bullshit. You guys are creating the need for someone like Trump, and that also is total fucking bullshit. You are harming the Republic faster than even I thought you could.
"[A] Harvard University professor...estimates that daily life in the United States is so over-criminalized, the average American professional commits about three felonies a day." (Source: Progressive think tank Institute for Policy Studies). That means that prosecutors get to pick who they prosecute, and you can disingenuously claim that they are "just enforcing the law" even when they often enforce the law on political opponents and ignore identical infractions by political allies.
....just look at the cord this Bee satire struck. Their work is best when it's true.
Berman's book "Holding The Line"...he documents and cites individuals involved in what actually took place at the DOJ during the Trump administration..i.e. genuine politicization in the Justice Dept.
Finally...DJT is going to face true Justice...and it's likely to hit him very, very hard...as it should.
and a legitimate business deal with a Chinese company?...as it stands now, HB is under investigation for tax return issues...let's wait and see what happens there.
Wish you were as anxious to see justice served with DJT's delays and obstructions on all of his investigations...e.g. "Those documents are MINE!"...or, "Talk to Michael Cohen about that payment thing",...or, "I just want to find 11,780 votes"...or, "Why was there a "War Room" in the Willard Hotel on Jan. 5th and 6th?"
And million dollar money wires to the widowed sister-in-law of the dude banging her in front of his fucking nieces and nephews.
Moron.
however, based on the GOP's desperate need to "Even Things Out" vis-a-vis all of Trump's travails, I have my doubts as to the validity of the laptop charges, or any Chinese under-the-table deals...and zero belief that Joe Biden had any part in any shady deal...especially since he earned $15M from totally legal book and speaking deals in 2017/18 alone...with the promise of more to come...why take crazy risks for $70K back in 2017??...only Trump would stoop so low to grift every nickel he could...like requiring the U.S. Air Force to land 20 miles from his Scottish Golf Resort and then stay there are higher rates than any other normal stop would require.
If you're really interested in ferreting out corruption in government, you have 'lifetime employment' just with DJT ;-).
Hunter is merely the beneficiary of his parent being in a position of power. You don't really think China would be funneling money to Hunter (and the other Bidens) without the having Joe on the hook to do what they want when they need him to act.
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and Joe is so rich he wouldn’t be involved in shady deals. Did I cover everything for you?
if it actually happened.
And George Floyd had 19 visits to the police station and HRC killed Americans in Benghazi.
Don’t you know anything?
data to back up what they're telling me, and have ethical standards they live by....doesn't leave much time for FOX, OAN, etc.
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I don't know why.
Chris and a few others actually believe what the MSM tells them. Intelligent my ass.
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You figured they would at least be touching now. I cannot believe these idiots continue to say these things.
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