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When former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saw the indictment of Trump, she observed that, “it’s interesting to see how similar they are to some of the charges recommended by the January 6 committee and I commend, again, the committee.”
Soumya Dayananda, a senior investigator for the House Democrat committee claimed that, “the committee’s work provided this path.”
A New York Times article described the indictment as having a “narrative that was nearly identical”.
The Democrat prosecutor’s team admitted its dependence on the Democrat congressional committee by citing its work in its demand that the former president’s trial take place in early January 2024 so that it can overshadow the election and any potential inauguration.
The document filed by the Smith team claimed that it would produce materials to the Trump team including “unredacted materials obtained from other governmental entities, including the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol”. The filing also argued for the relevance of the “report written by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.”
Smith’s team was arguing that much of the evidence that it would introduce at trial had already been produced and made public by the House Democrat J6 committee. Trump’s team would receive the unredacted version of the materials and could then expect to be ready for trial.
It was a more official admission that the J6 indictment was just the J6 committee operating within the Justice Department and empowered to abuse the law by bringing criminal charges.
The media had described the House Democrat J6 criminal referrals as “historic.” They are historic in the sense that no partisan congressional committee had ever arranged to conduct a criminal trial of an opposing presidential candidate before.
That’s history of the banana republic kind.
The Democrat committee had issued four criminal referrals Three of the four charges in the indictment were adopted verbatim from the Democrat committee’s criminal referral. Smith swapped out the entirely unsupportable ‘insurrection’ charge for an anti-Klan law which among other things bans wearing costumes on highways.
All of this violates what Attorney Merrick Garland, who handpicked Smith to go after Trump, had promised. During his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings, Garland had assured his audience that no “politics would have any influence over prosecutions or investigations.”
“The president has promised that those decisions will only be made by the attorney general, and that is what I plan to do. I do not plan to be interfered with by anyone. I expect the Justice Department will make its own decisions in this regard,” he told senators.
“I want to make clear to the career prosecutors…that my job is to protect them from partisan or other improper motives,”
By the time the J6 committee circus was on their way, Garland was telling a different story. “I am watching, and I will be watching all the hearings, although I may not be able to watch all of it live,” he promised Democrats. “And I can assure you that the Jan. 6 prosecutors are watching all the hearings.”
“The Jan. 6 Committee Returns With One Viewer in Mind: Merrick Garland,” Time Magazine headlined its coverage.
AG Garland and his boys and girls were doing more than watching. The Justice Department contacted the House J6 lead investigator to let him know that his work “may contain information relevant to a criminal investigation we are conducting” and asked for transcripts.
Despite that the Justice Department kept claiming that these were separate investigations. It is now undeniable that the DOJ J6 investigation piggybacked on the work of the House Democrat J6 committee, and that Garland lied when he claimed that there would be no political influence.
The investigation had been as political as it could possibly be because it was undertaken by Democrat opponents of the former president in order to prevent him from running again.
Despite Garland’s promise to “pursue justice without fear or favor”, he provided a rubber stamp for a partisan effort by his boss and his congressional allies to go after an opposing candidate.
Smith’s reliance on the work of the J6 Democrats also raises serious questions about his claim that the Justice Department was conducting “the most wide-ranging investigation in its history”. If the DOJ was conducting a more wide-ranging investigation than say after the attacks of 9/11, why does it appear like such a carbon copy of the work of House Democrats? Why is Smith’s team citing the J6 committee’s materials as representing much of the evidence for the trial?
The House Democrats on the J6 committee had far more unlimited purse strings, blowing through millions of dollars in its investigations, hiring outside investigators and benefiting from a large staff. The “most wide-ranging investigation in its history” wasn’t conducted by the DOJ or Jack Smith, but by the House Democrats who spent lavishly on their political lynch mob.
The 57 staffers and the millions in spending meant that House Democrats and their paid personnel and outside investigators did the real work that Smith had dropped in his lap. This was nearly the same arrangement as Russiagate, where work done by Hillary Clinton’s campaign was then deposited in the Justice Department and the FBI for a rubber stamp.
The Justice Department followed the same protocol in both Russiagate and J6: taking an outside Democrat political hit job and pretending to go through the process of validating it. The actual purpose of both Russiagate and the J6 indictment is the same: to rig an election.
Attorney General Merrick Garland lied when he promised an apolitical justice department. Instead he set out to replicate the abuses that the Obama administration had perpetrated with Russiagate on a much larger scale.
The Trump indictment is not the work of an apolitical DOJ, but of a Democrat committee. It’s not there to provide justice, but to define the election around a Democrat criminal proceeding.
The only real difference between Russiagate and the J6 trial is that the former failed to launch. Garland, Smith and their political backers and bosses intend to make sure this one sticks.
Dan, I rarely comment below your articles but rather dig them immensely and often share them with others. But you don’t see that. Yet I’m sure so many people do that. You and all the regulars on Front Page put out such important, thoughtful content.
Thanks so much!
Thank you, Jim. I’m always glad to hear that. I only know what I see after all. And you, like all the commenters, bring so much that way by just leaving a message.
I live in England Dan and have total respect for your truth telling.
It begs belief the BS coming out of your “ Justice Department.
America deserves so much better than the demented and delusional dross being perpetrated against Trumpie.
I admire his sheer tenacity and fighting spirit.
I absolutely hope the DemonRATS get properly smashed next year!!
Keep up the great work.
We need a strong US that cherishes freedom and traditional hard won freedoms otherwise the rest of us are truly f***ed !!
Allez Trumpie
We in U.K. suffer the same it’s just we don’t have the first or second amendment or a constitution. uk govt and it’s satellite bureacracies are just as corrupt, we just don’t hear of it except through American places like this. For which I too am eternally grateful.
My maudlin appreciation is that the USofA actually does, or did, advance the Lamp of the Enlightenment.
The Left acts in full realization of the the stakes and goals.
The Right seems asleep.
Immediately, your priority and ours is immigration. Stopping it is insufficient. The last several decades of it need be reversed.
Expulsion of fifty million illegals is the burden these saboteurs have infected upon us. I want the persons responsible condemned to long confinement.
We play hard ball or it’s game over.
And, since the J6 committee provided the template for a criminal prosecution in which the defendant has discovery rights, it destroyed its records. This is all just sick.
The GS-13 career government employees who now staff the Deep State Gestapo are a darn disgrace. As to their vengeful motivation, I assume that many of these freaks are the same guys who couldn’t get a date with a pretty girl in high school. There’s a sure way to determine the facts. Get a F.I.S.A. warrant to search and see if the GS-13s kicking down doors still have that same unused condom in their wallet from tenth grade. That may be easier to achieve than you think since the female F.I.S.A. judges issuing warrants were, no doubt, similarly jilted in high school by incipient GS-13s.
It’s simple. Use fake criminals investigations of Democrats to block Congressional oversight. Then use congressional investigations to generate criminal investigations of Republicans.
Burn the evidence that’s the basis for the investigations.
Lock and key model that combines political persecution with political cover-ups neatly slotting together the political and law enforcement arms of government.
How many times have these nazis said “whatever it takes”? They mean it: destroy the republic, destroy our lives. No problem if that’s what it takes.
ALL ROADS lead to Obama with the help from Bill and HILLARY Clinton. Don’t forget Valerie Jarrett and Eric Holder. WHY? Because FJB’s problems would implicate Obama and the Clinton’s numerous shady donations to their Foundation.
IMAGINE IF JACK SMITH TURNED and revealed the Conspiracy actors against Trump WITH RECORDINGS PUSHING HIM! NOW THAT WOULD BE HISTORICAL!!! Or will History record him as a political hack and tool of real Seditionists!
Answer: political hack and complete tool of the left.
Now we find the cabal of thugs in the J6 show trial have destroyed their sleaze paper work . Doesn’t matter the corrupt Jack Smith will replace it with his own fabrications.
It’s the equivalent of police illegally bugging a suspect, then using that as the basis for their raids without submitting it as evidence and destroying the original recordings.
Yes, we do have bananas. We do have bananas today!
Frankly, I think our institutions are so corrupt at this point that we’re giving the term “banana republic” a bad name.
This also makes the apparent destruction of a considerable amount of J6 Committee evidence all the more suspicious and outrageous. Any such evidence destruction was almost certainly quite selective, and eliminated potentially exculpatory material. So we have an indictment (and effectively, a case) based on a partisan investigation and partisans have destroyed a potential counter to those charges and that case.
Possibly they destroyed the evidence because they believed there was some probability of a decent AG being installed in January of 2025 and they would then be prosecuted for their obvious crimes.
After the conspiracy comes the cover-up.
That’s an excellent line Daniel. Going back to the theory of Karma, the action of conspiracy leads to consequences, requiring a coverup. An endless series of entanglements.
The J6 committee itself was a TV production. None of the members voted against Trump’s impeachment prior to the hearings. Findings should be no surprise.
They brought in a TV producer to help ’em choreograph the Goebbelsesque hearings – shamelessly putting the “show” in show trial.
From your earlier reporting the J6 Committee has destroyed their documents. Note that in November 2022 House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy demanded that the J6 Committee keep all records.
What’s more, Fox notes that the committee “has also failed to provide any evidence that it looked into Capitol Hill security failures on the day of the riot.”
So apparently the DoJ has records that no one else can get?
Should do what Pelosi said to their people to do to us, and do it to the j6 committee, rhinos and smith, when ever/where ever you see them, get in there faces and tell them they aren’t welcome here
Nobody ever properly investigated the Feds for the plot to ship guns to ONE cartel while never following up on the supposed purpose of “investigation.” This was the one where AG Eric Holder refused to appear before Congress and accepted a Contempt of Congress designation rather than testify.
One cartel member offered to testify that he knew of an American who made the deal to allow the gun transshipments and received millions of dollars
Republicans promise to look into things when they take over the White House and it never happens.
Democrats promise to look into things when they take over the White House and they do it.
There’s a laundry list of leftist abuses that were never investigated. The arms to cartels scandal was one of them. Holder should have faced real consequences for that one instead of a feeble reputational slap on the wrist.
True, They promise to do something about the abuse of power, and wrong minded policies, but never follow through when they get i office. (Its empty promises.) Many Republicans are part of the Uni-party.
THE JUDICIAL has always been an open sewer. It exist to serve and protect the status quo.
In the first 100 years of the Supreme Court’s rulings, nearly 95% served white supremacist. Now it’s the corporat interests and those who serve it.
Hawley: Trump Indictments a ‘Recipe for One-Party Rule’ — ‘Our Constitutional Democracy Doesn’t Exist Anymore’
During an appearance on FNC’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) warned a Fulton County grand jury’s indictment of former President Donald Trump was an effort to establish “one-party rule” by the party in power.
Garland needs to be removed totllaly
We owe him the opportunity to reflect upon the error of his ways. We can feed him, house him, and provide him with bad hat cuts on his multiyear voyage of self discovery.
Then he can share his epiphanies with the Parole Board.
Nasty Peelosi said… Trump will get his day in Court where he can try to prove his innocence… Read that again… slowly.
Nasty Peelosi the Original Wicked Witch of The West.
Democrats embrace democracy like water embraces oil.
Their honesty in nomenclature is consistent with the nobility of their intentions.