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FBI coordinated targeting of Catholics from MULTIPLE field offices across US

The House Judiciary Committee revealed on Wednesday that the FBI’s Richmond Field Office had coordinated with multiple other member locations across the nation to produce its infamous memo labeling traditional Catholics as potential domestic terrorists.

The letter, sent to FBI Director Christopher Wray, said that new information produced to the committee revealed the FBI had relied on offices across the country, including a liaison contact in the Portland office and reporting from the FBI’s Los Angeles Office, to develop its assessment of traditional Catholics as potential domestic terrorists.

The letter noted that the information contradicts what Wray previously testified before the committee.

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-fbi-coordinated-targeting-of-catholics-from-multiple-field-offices-across-us

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Biden DOJ fines Elon Musk $350,000 after he REFUSES to give them access to Trump’s Twitter account

The district court held X in contempt for missing the deadline and the social media platform was fined $350,000.

Newly released court documents reveal that federal prosecutors had obtained a search warrant for 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s Twitter account in January for their investigation into Trump’s alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election, but X, formerly known as Twitter, under owner Elon Musk, refused to give over the information.

The search warrant had been sent with a nondisclosure order prohibiting X from notifying anyone about the existence or contents of the warrant.

The court document said that X had initially delayed the production of the materials required while undertaking unsuccessful litigation objections to the nondisclosure order.

While the social media platform ultimately complied with the warrant and handed over the requested information three days after the deadline, the district court held X in contempt and was fined $350,000.

The revelation came as part of an appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in which the court upheld a lower court’s ruling on the case.

“In sum, we affirm the district court’s rulings in all respects. The district court properly rejected Twitter’s First Amendment challenge to the nondisclosure order. Moreover, the district court acted within the bounds of its discretion to manage its docket when it

declined to stay its enforcement of the warrant while the First Amendment claim was litigated. Finally, the district court followed the appropriate procedures before finding Twitter in contempt of court – including giving Twitter an opportunity to be heard and a chance to purge its contempt to avoid sanctions. Under the circumstances, the court did not abuse its discretion when it ultimately held Twitter in contempt and imposed a $350,000 sanction,” the ruling stated.

X argued in its appeal that the nondisclosure order had violated the First Amendment and the Stored Communications act, and that the district court should have issued a stay of the enforcement of the search warrant until the objections to the nondisclosure order were solved.

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-biden-doj-targeted-trumps-x-twitter-with-search-warrant-elon-musk-refused-to-comply-hit-with-350000-fine

 

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Dershowitz Says Indictments Will Fail

Prosecutors claim “Donald Trump actually believed that he lost the election that everything he did was fraudulent that he conspired with unnamed lawyers mostly to affect the election,” Dershowitz said.

“So the government has the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that subjectively Donald Trump actually believed that he lost the election and acted contrary to that belief.”

Nothing in the indictment backs that up, Dershowitz said.

“Now, I read the indictment very carefully. There is no smoking gun,” he 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 that people told him he lost the election, but you know Donald Trump, and you know that he’s going to make up his own mind, and they’re going to have a very hard time proving that.”

A “hard time proving that” is an understatement.

Even Trump’s worst detractors have to have difficulty believing that he actually thinks he lost the 2020 election. Tens of millions of his supporters have trouble believing it, given the hair-breadth margins of victory President Joe Biden recorded in key swing states, and the evident meddling of the FBI and the barons of social media — not to mention the lingering suspicions of more traditional election fixing that haven’t disappeared.

For Trump himself, who has been unfailingly consistent in his public statements about the vote for the past three years, it’s almost inconceivable.

But, as Dershowitz pointed out, Smith won’t be bringing his case in a jurisdiction of fair-minded Americans. The case is in Washington, D.C. — where Biden took more than 90 percent of the vote.

“Now, it’s the District of Columbia, 90 some-odd percent of the jury pool will have voted against them so they may actually get a conviction from a D.C. jury, but will it survive appellate review and review to the Supreme Court?

“I don’t think so.”

And that, essentially, is where the Smith prosecution is resting its case. He has a history of political prosecutions — including a corruption conviction of former Virginia Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell that was overturned by a unanimous Supreme Court in 2016. (It was an 8-0 vote. The seat left open by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February of that year was still open — and Democrats were trying to put Merrick Garland in it.)

This isn’t about pursuing “justice” in the traditional American understanding of the word. It’s about shopping a weak-as-water political prosecution to the most sympathetic jury pool in the country and landing a conviction that would stand as a public smear against the most popular political opponent of the current president.

But it has nothing to do with loyalty to the law.

That’s why, Dershowitz said, “the first motion his lawyers will make will be a change of venue to northern Virginia, where the jury pool will be fairer … and you could move it further, you could move it to southern Virginia, where it’s much more even. You could move it to an adjoining state.”

“Remember, this is a federal indictment. It doesn’t have to be tried within the state or the area. You can make a motion for a change of venue.”

Former Harvard Law Professor Declares Jan. 6 Trump Indictment Is Not Likely to ‘Survive’

 

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Trump’s J6 ‎Case Judge Worked at DC Law Firm During Hunter Biden’s Tenure

176 attorneys there…

U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who will oversee former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election case, worked at Boies, Schiller, & Flexner, a high-powered Washington, DC, law firm, at the same time Hunter Biden worked for the firm as a lobbyist.

According to Chutkan’s official bio, the Obama administration appointed Chutkan to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in June 2014. Before her appointment, she worked at Boies, Schiller, & Flexner from 2002 to 2014 in litigation and white collar criminal defense.

Hunter Biden worked at Boies, Schiller, & Flexner from 2009 to 2014, overlapping Chutkan’s timeframe at the firm for five years. Hunter Biden lobbied primarily for colleges, hospitals, and tech firms, the Associated Press reported.

Hunter Biden maintained his position at the firm even as his father became vice president in 2008. He left the law firm in 2014, the same year he became a board member of Burisma Holding for $83,000 a month, and one year after co-founding BHR Partners, a Chinese state-backed investment fund, with Devon Archer and Jonathan Li.

BHR Partners was formed 12 days after Hunter had joined his then-vice president father aboard Air Force Two for a state visit to Beijing.

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No! Jack Smith and Merrick Garland – The State Farm Late Night Ballot Stuffing Video Was NOT DEBUNKED

Jack Smith included several paragraphs on the State Farm Center election night vote counting in Atlanta, Georgia.

We all know the story, election officials announced they would shut down counting early on election night. The counting room was then cleared of all election observers and local media reporters. Then several minutes later, after the room was emptied, at least five election workers entered the counting room, dragged a seemingly hidden suitcase of ballots out from under a table, and began counting ballots again and apparently shoving stacks of ballots through the machines numerous times.

The Gateway Pundit is currently fighting a lawsuit brought against us by election workers funded by far-left groups for pointing out what appears clearly to us to be obvious election observations.

Jack Smith says the controversial Georgia Secretary of State posted a tweet that “debunked” this reporting (paragraph 23 below). No, it did not. It was a tweet.  A tweet is insufficient to debunk anything.

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Jack Smith then mentions the Trump phone call to Georgia officials but does not mention that the Georgia officials misrepresented the call, deleted the audio, then got caught when the audio was recovered by investigators!

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Jack Smith then attacks co-conspirator 1 for playing the video again before the Georgia House of Representatives.

Jack Smith and the Biden DOJ filled their indictment with numerous opinions and false statements. It is not clear how this amateur indictment will hold up in court. The DOJ gave the case to a far-left radical Obama judge. So they have that in their favor.

Jack Smith and Merrick Garland are hoping to make speech illegal with this indictment. They are hoping to make challenging elections “won” by Democrats a crime in America.

The Gateway Pundit was sued in December 2021 by the State Farm election workers who were filmed inside the State Farm Center on election night.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/no-jack-smith-merrick-garland-state-farm-late/

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DC judge assigned to Trump Jan. 6 case labeled ‘toughest punisher’ in Capitol riot cases

The federal judge in Washington, D.C. assigned to preside over the prosecution of former President Donald Trump for charges related to the Capitol riot is notorious for issuing tougher sentences to other Jan. 6 defendants than what the Justice Department requested, and put every one of them behind bars.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan was assigned to oversee the case involving Trump, who on Tuesday was indicted on four federal charges, including conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights.

Chutkan, a former assistant public defender before her appointment by President Barack Obama, has handled several cases involving individuals who entered the Capitol on January 6.

The Associated Press called her the “toughest punisher” and reported that she has “consistently taken the hardest line against Jan. 6 defendants of any judge serving on Washington’s federal trial court.” The Justice Department has brought more than 800 cases so far, marking the largest prosecution in the department’s history.

In seven cases, Chutkan even handed out tougher sentences than what DOJ was seeking. She matched the prosecution’s requests in four others and sent all 11 riot defendants who have come before her behind bars, the outlet notes.

In four cases in which DOJ did not seek jail time, Chutkan gave prison sentences ranging from 14 days to 45 days.

In a case against Robert Scott Palmer who sprayed the contents of a fire extinguisher at police officers the day of the riot and threw the empty canister at them, Chutkan sentenced him to more than five years in prison.

“Every day we are hearing about reports of antidemocratic factions, people plotting potential violence in 2024. It has to be made clear that trying to stop the peaceful transition of power, assaulting law enforcement, is going to be met with certain punishment,” CNN reports Chutkan to have said. “Not staying at home, not watching Netflix, not doing what you were doing before you got arrested.”

Trump has been ordered to appear in federal court in Washington D.C. for his arraignment on Thursday, Aug. 3, at 4:00 p.m.

“The Defendant, Donald J. Trump, was the forty-fifth President of the United States and a candidate for re-election in 2020. The Defendant lost the 2020 presidential election,” Smith’s indictment states. “Despite having lost, the Defendant was determined to remain in power.”

Smith alleged that “for more than two months following election day on November 3, 2020,” Trump “spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won.” It lists various claims Trump’s team made during post-election state challenges in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

“These claims were false, and the Defendant knew that they were false,” Smith alleged. “But the Defendant 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 the election.”

Smith alleged that Trump, between Nov. 14, 2020 and Jan. 20, 2021, “did knowingly combine conspire, confederate, and agree with co-conspirators, known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to defraud the United States by using dishonesty, fraud and deceit to impair, obstruct and defeat the lawful federal government function by which the results of the presidential election are collected, counted, and certified by the federal government.”

There are also six unnamed co-conspirators in the indictment.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dc-judge-assigned-trump-jan-6-case-labeled-toughest-punisher-capitol-riot-cases