@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
🚨THREAD: General Michael Flynn (RET) filed a lawsuit against the United States for malicious prosecution and abuse of process. (@GenFlynn) If you never fully understood what happened or didn't know, this thread is for you. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66930673/flynn-v-united-states/
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
This story is one of (if not the) most important stories of our time. There are so many people out there who are unaware of the depravity that occurred with this case. There are more still who are COMPLETELY uninformed. People think that @GenFlynn went to jail. He didn't.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
People think that because he initially pled guilty, he was guilty. People use things a corrupt judge said (and later corrected) to call Flynn a traitor. These people don't know anything about what actually happened. This case was a TRAVESTY of justice.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
The FBI and DOJ turned over every stone and tried to get water from them. They came up empty. This thread will be the telling of the depravity. You really must pay attention, because after it is done, you wont have so many questions anymore, and everything in it is a PROVABLE…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Before we move forward and in full disclosure, I want to let everyone know that I sit on the board at http://AmericasFuture.net where @GenFlynn is the Chairman. We are doing some amazing work. Please take a moment to check it out.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
That aside, very few people did more work on the case of General Flynn than our corner of twitter. I dedicated COUNTLESS hours to reporting on this case. I didn't meet General Flynn in person until after his case had already been *finally* dismissed.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
That said, grab a cup of coffee and settle in because we are about to dissect this filing from the Middle District of FLORIDA.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
We are starting at the end. People who attack Flynn don't come CLOSE to understanding the case and don't bother to try. Understand that the DOJ, after discovering what the FBI had *really* done, DROPPED the case that was pending against General Flynn .
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Remember, General Flynn was charged with a 1001 violation. This is one of the weakest and most ridiculous charges they have at their disposal because it is often used for purposes other than intended. If you have followed along, you know George https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
The DOJ admitted it should NEVER have brought the charges against Flynn because the interview that formed the basis for the charges should never have happened. Even though it DID (we will get to the circumstances surrounding this in a moment) there wasn't a proper basis. HE…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Most cases like this make some guesses. They guess that there was malicious intent or something was going on behind the scenes. In this case, we have THEIR OWN DOCUMENTS that prove it. There is no "guessing." This ABSOLUTELY happened.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
**NOTE: For the hardcore of us out there- *everything* isn't included in this complaint. There will be things that we know happened that were omitted and you will feel were important. As always, and attorneys can chime in here, you don't want your complaint to be so voluminous as…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
They targeted General Flynn for several reasons, but these are a mere two. He was associated with Trump, and he became the National Security Advisor, and they really couldn't have that for reasons we will explain shortly.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Here is where the government is going to have an issue. Because the documents are already available BEFORE discovery, they can't argue against this without discrediting themselves. This is a very rare case where the Plaintiff already has a mountain of evidence before the case…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
As the trolls come to pile on this thread with pictures of Flynn sitting with Putin (that will be addressed and boy will their heads spin) remember that for almost 5 years EVERYONE in the establishment media and the corrupt uniparty LIED TO YOU about Russia and the Trump…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
High-ranking members of the FBI knew what the FBI and DOJ were doing was wrong. Bill Priestap, who was Assistant Deputy Director wrote in his notes the day Comey sent CI agents to interview Flynn: "Is the goal to get to the truth, or to get Flynn to lie so we can prosecute him…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Understand we have the above-handwritten notes. There is no question that this is what Priestap wrote. There is no question that they knew it was wrong to entrap General Flynn. There is no question that Comey knew exactly what he was doing during the ambush interview. We have the…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
They go through a list of the "wrongdoers" in the government. Included are the DIJ, the FBI, the Special Counsels' Office (Mueller,) the Executive Office of the President, and more whom they include more details about.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Comey verified under penalty of perjury 2 false FISA warrant affidavits, participated in and approved the initiation and continuation of the investigation into General Flynn, and the decision to send agents to interview him without notice to WH Counsel, and assisted in the…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Andrew McCabe served as Deputy Director of the FBI from 2/2016-1/2018. He was an original and primary participant in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation (SPYGATE.) He was the lead signatory on the final FISA renewal in June of 2017 and was a key participant in the investigation…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Andrew McCabe is also a known liar and leaker. There could be a book written about it all. I may have written enough to fill one already. Some light reading for you, and you may also want to check out the next post for some truly stunning info that I broke https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2018/o20180413.pdf
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Peter Strzok was a career agent until August of 2018, and was the Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence. He supervised the Flynn investigation and was involved in the decision to start and continue it and initiate the prosecution. He also likes to let people he is…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Also included are Lisa Page, Joe Pientka (the agent who interviewed Flynn with Strzok and a whole bunch more) Mueller and Brandon Van Grack, the US Attorney who oversaw the case.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
There won't be a successful jurisdiction argument. USG will try, but I don't foresee that succeeding. The Plaintiff lives in this judicial district, and the entire government is being sued.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Some on General Flynn's background, but if you really want a better picture of what a HERO he is, read some of the letters written and submitted to the judge back in the original case. They are found at the end of this filing. Everyone should take https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.191592/gov.uscourts.dcd.191592.50.0.pdf
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
General Flynn served as DIA Director until he stepped down in August of 2014, and then returned from the Army on September 30, 2014. Admiral Rogers, director of the NSA, praised General Flynn as the "best intelligence officer of the past 20 years" He then started a successful…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Many people don't know that General Flynn consulted for several 2016 candidates. In February of 2016, he became a foreign policy advisor to President Trump. He continued to serve in this role until it was announced he would be incoming President Trump's selection for NSA.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
7/31/16: The FBI under Comey, McCabe, Priestap and Strzok open the CI investigation named "Crossfire Hurricane" assumed to concern FARA to determine whether "individuals associated with the Trump campaign are sitting of and/or coordinating activities with the Government of…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
This thread will NOT be a dissertation on the entirety of Spygate; we'd be here for years and years, but the FBI said that the basis for opening CH (Crossfire Hurricane) was a tip from Andrew Downer, who recalled a months-prior conversation with Papadopoulos. Downer said that…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
One of the only real qualms I had about this filing is that they say that the emails that Wikileaks released from the DNC were hacked. I beg to differ. However, the FBI opened one of the most corrupt investigations in its history based on hearsay that someone heard at a bar.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
We can't forget the infamous August 15, 2016 "insurance policy" text messages between Strzok/Page .
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
On 8/16/16, the FBI opened their investigation into General Flynn as a sub-part of the CH investigation. They called it "Crossfire Razor" and it was intended to determine if General Flynn knowingly or unknowingly was "involved in activity on behalf of the https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.411523/gov.uscourts.flmd.411523.1.6.pdf
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Crossfire Razor had no legitimate investigative predicate and was politically and maliciously initiated as part of the "insurance policy" referenced above. As part of this, they tried to get FISA warrants from the FISC. As per OIG, the FBI was originally told they didn't have…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Well, what do you do when you don't have probable cause?! YOU INVENT SOME. Enter one, Christopher Steele. In September 2016, the FBI and DOJ received info from Steele. When the info came in, the FBI KNEW that he had been paid by the DNC and the Clinton campaign to perform oppo…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
FUN FACT: Steele was also being paid by the Eff-Bee-EYE. Amazing how all of that works.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
The FBI didn't tell the FISC that the evidence it has obtained was tainted oppo research that wasn't true. Instead, the FBI lied to the FISC to get the most intrusive warrant known to man to spy on the campaign. The FBI didn't tell the FISC that the primary sub-source for the…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
No, this isn't just "crazy conspiracy theorists" going on again. The DOJ OIG report from 12/2019 established *numerous* material failures by the FBI to follow the Woods procedures and other policies in obtaining the warrants. The FBI had no supporting documentation,…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
If you are the government trying to defend against this in court, your argument has to be "the OIG doesn't know what he's doing. This is a lie." Good luck with that.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Without the FISA warrants, the entire CH case would have never happened. They lied to get the warrants and the renewals. That is a proven FACT at this point.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Here are the predicates the FBI used to open the investigation into General Flynn: 1. His position as an advisor to Presidential candidate Trump. 2. "Open source" reporting on his ties to "various state-affiliated entities of the Russian Federation." 3. The fact that he traveled…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
These purported justifications, taken alone or combined, reveal the baseless and malicious nature of the investigation and were in violation of the FBI's policies - which as Merrick Garland keeps telling you as they wage political war - prohibit investigation to monitor 1st…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
They can't investigate him just because he is an advisor to a presidential candidate. That isn't a proper justification to investigate him as a Russian spy. He was one of the nation's greatest intelligence officers - this is patently ridiculous- AND THEY KNEW IT.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Speaking at events when retired and receiving fees for doing so is commonplace. The left likes to attack General Flynn for the RT gala he spoke at, but decline to mention that Adam Schiff consistently appeared on RT over the years... But there's more on this as well. Don't go…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Here is where the heads explode. The FBI was fully aware - General Flynn briefed the USG both BEFORE and AFTER the RT trip. He acted as an information gathering agent FOR the US when he made it. Not AGAINST. Next time someone sends you that damn picture and calls him a traitor,…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
And, the fact that he had a TS/SCI clearance meant that he had been thoroughly vetted just MONTHS before the FBI started wondering if he was a "Russian spy." It's absurd. It's malicious.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
This is great. "It would require the FBI to fantasize that a three-star general had betrayed his country on the basis of a few thousand dollars in speaking fees, bare fraction of what generals make on the speaking circuit.."
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Understand, this is what the FBI used to open the investigation. We have the documents. We know. That is what makes this case so much different than many.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Let's put all reality aside and pretend the FBI did nothing wrong in opening the investigation. They still wrongfully and maliciously kept it going after it had been completed and General Flynn was CLEARED. It was supposed to be closed in 12/2016 because they found NOTHING.…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
For some reason, they never closed the investigation. They would later refer to incompetence as a stroke of luck. Flynn called Kislyak as part of his duties on the transition. The FBI had transcripts of those calls. They knew the calls were legitimate and proper.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Knowing that the CI investigation was slated to be closed, they started considering opening a new criminal investigation based on the Logan Act. DOJ poo pooed the idea, and instead decided to keep the CI investigation open based solely on the calls to Kislyak,
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
They knew they had nothing. They knew that the statements he made to Kislyak had NOTHING to do with sanctions and everything to do with Russian diplomats that Obama had kicked out of the country- they knew this because they had the transcripts of the calls. They knew and they…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
The FBI knew that General Flynn did NOT discuss sanctions on the call with Kislyak. They had the transcripts. The transcripts were later released. No matter what you say, no matter how people try to spin that call, etc - the transcript of the calls proves that General Flynn DID…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Obama warned Trump not to appoint Flynn. The Obama WH held a special contempt for him. Top brass at the FBI also had it out for him. A decorated CI agent at the FBI had filed an EEOC complaint against Andrew McCabe. Flynn who had worked with the agent, wrote a letter voicing for…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
They all knew that General Flynn would be able to piece apart and destroy their attempt at taking President Trump out using the Intelligence Apparatus-- so for this and other reasons, they needed him gone.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
This was the meeting where the infamous "CYA" email was sent- stating that "everything was done by the book." And here is where it starts getting REALLY bad.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
They planned a perjury trap for General Flynn. We know they planned a perjury trap for a few reasons. We have the documents, and JAMES COMEY TOLD US.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
They had another Oval Office meeting on 1/10/17 where the group agreed that Flynn's actions on the call were "legit." Then, they committed a felony and leaked details about the calls to WAPO. The "leaks" were real. The news was fake. This is treasonous behavior.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Then, Biden kept on the Logan Act as a possibility-- utterly absurd. They leaked to the press that they were considering the Logan Act. The FBI later used the leaks and the media as justification for not putting the WH or DOJ on notice before they ambushed him with agents for…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Comey didn't want the Trump admin to know what was *actually* said on the calls. If he did, there never would have been any "resignation." Looking back now, I'm not sure what Pence would have said. Comey's reasons for withholding the transcript changed several times.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
And it wasn't without debate- According to documents, Yates and other DOJ officials wanted the transcripts shared. So did DAG, DNI, and CIA.... But Comey went it alone.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Their sole goal was to ambush Flynn and try to get him to "lie" about SOMETHING. It could be ANYTHING, but they needed SOMETHING. They should've followed procedures, tell him the purpose, inform him why he was being interviewed, instead they kept it from him and McCabe…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
They went there intending to get General Flynn to lie - and they left writing down that he didn't lie about anything. Not included in the suit is how Pientka used a briefing to get a "baseline" for Flynn...
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Yates called Comey the DAY OF this interview to demand that they let the Trump admin know the contents of the calls, but it was too late, as Strzok and Pientka were already there. Yates knew this was a losing move. She knew what would happen and it wasn't worth the risk to her.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
And no one can ever forget the way James Comey gloated about what he did..
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
McCabe called Flynn and downplayed any need for attorneys or formality, stating instead that it was merely to "put to bed" the Kislyak rumors in the press-- rumors his FBI had leaked in the first place. No one advised him he was the subject of an investigation. They didn't give…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
This was their entire goal. After the meeting was finished, even they were forced to admit that General Flynn had not lied during the interview. He told the truth. THEY wrote it down.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
One of the key components of a 1001 charge is something called "materiality." Whatever "lie" or omission must impact an investigation for them to use this. Even if General Flynn "lied" at this meeting (he didn't), the FBI had the transcripts of the call; therefore, whatever he…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
This was a large part of the DOJ having to dismiss this case against General Flynn-- and if you thought it was bad so far, I have more coming for the "BUT HE PLED GUILTY" crew. This case is a TRAVESTY.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Following the interview, it took Strzok and Pientka THREE WEEKS to submit their notes or 302's. FBI regulations require those to be submitted after 5 days. Despite the delay and controversy about them being edited and changed by Lisa Page, someone who wasn't authorized to do so,…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
On 11/30/2017, the SCO filed a criminal information against Flynn, alleging that he had intentionally omitted and denied speaking with Kislyak during the interview with Strzok and Pientka. That was a lie. It didn't happen.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
When they filed, Van Grack (US Attorney for SCO) knew it was a lie. They had notes taken at the WH meeting that his conversations with Kislyak were "legitimate." They knew there could be no materiality. They filed anyway.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
Strzok and Pientka continued prosecuting and investigating Flynn even though they had certified themselves that they didn't think he lied. Intentionality would have had to be a part of it if he did lie. None of that existed.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
The SCO WILLFULLY failed to disclose exculpatory information to General Flynn. They didn't provide the notes from Stzrok and Pientka showing that the FBI believed he didn't lie, they did;t share the notes from the oval, and much more. The government didn't follow its Brady…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
The SCO threatened his son, Michael Flynn Jr. with prosecution unless he pled guilty. They withheld the exculpatory information, and I will say it although the filing doesn't: He retained lawyers straight out of the damn swamp who were experts in FARA - another piece of this…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
The DOJ ultimately determined that continuing the prosecution of General Flynn would not serve the interests of justice because he didn't commit any crime, and the DOJ/FBI knew it the entire time. This isn't an assumption; there are REAMS of documents proving it.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
There is another story to be told here that isn't told in this filing about the FARA "violations" that really never were Two people are still being targeted by this prosecution- they have committed no crimes. I will review that at a later time.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
After 3 long years in court- after withdrawing his guilty plea and retaining new counsel, the DOJ dismissed the prosecution of General Flynn... And everyone lived happily ever after... WRONG.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
In one of the most stunning things to happen in a criminal court that I have personally ever reported on, Judge Emmett Sullivan REFUSED to approve the dismissal of prosecution!!!
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
READ EVERY WORD. The judge's "friend of the court" ended up being a wildly partisan hack who had not even weeks before penned an op-ed about the special counsel which bled his contempt for anyone or anything in Trump world. This was the most back asswards thing that I have ever…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
As the months ticked on towards the 2020 election, President Trump stepped in with something extraordinary- a "pardon of innocence." In my opinion, the judge was stalling dismissing the case because he was waiting for a Biden administration to step in-- thereby allowing them to…
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
President Trump pardoned an innocent man - who the facts have shown was completely innocent and targeted by a government he pledged his life to serve - to ensure that he wasn't a target of a rogue administration should he not win the Presidency.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
General Flynn is suing the government for a minimum of $50m dollars. He deserves quadruple that amount. Any time you see someone accusing General Flynn f being a "traitor" send them to this thread. The documents are all there. They can read for themselves.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
General Flynn was not a Russian Agent. General Flynn never lied. General Flynn pled guilty because they threatened his family and withheld information that proved his innocence in contravention of the law.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
General Flynn is STILL dedicated to saving this country. He is a hero. The attorneys who are arguing this case are some of the best we have. @jbinnall is an AMAZING attorney, as is @JGreaves1787 - they are a stellar team and there are few better for this case.
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
What happened to General Flynn is an absolute travesty of justice that can never happen again, but unfortunately happens all too often. Our "justice" system is irreparably broken. To help with legal fees for this case: https://www.generalflynn.com/donate/
@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
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@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz
ADDENDUM: A good friend sent me the video I was talking about with Mike Rogers.
@RepMTG - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸
I read the Biden Family SARs reports at the Treasury Department with my own eyes. Human trafficking, prostitution, money laundering. It was shocking. Now a brave whistleblower has come forward with information that may directly implicate Joe Biden himself in a foreign…
@RepMTG - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸
I just read the FBI’s FD-1023 form implicating Joe Biden in a political bribery pay-to-play scheme. Here’s what the American people deserve to know.
@Gapeach_3102 - Peach
According to Trump indictment 1 of the most damning charges is a TAPE RECORDING of HIM admitting having docsBiden admitted to having CLASSIFIED DOCS DATING BACK to 1970's when a Senator Thats 50yrs Senator's arent allowed to remove docs ONLY way he COULD'VE was by STEALING THEM
@SpeakerMcCarthy - Kevin McCarthy
We have a sitting president who possessed classified documents dating back decades to his time as Vice President and as a Senator. Yet he is now weaponizing the federal government to go after his leading political opponent. Where is the equal justice under the law?
@HansMahncke - Hans Mahncke
If you thought this was bad, here's the real shocker. Shortly after Poroshenko's aide blew the whistle, Poroshenko asked Biden whether the aide was now cooperating with the FBI. Incredibly, Biden assured Poroshenko that the FBI wasn't pursuing it. How would Biden have known? https://t.co/FdkBQEdQMY
@VivekGRamaswamy - Vivek Ramaswamy
A Ukrainian state-affiliated company’s multimillion dollar bribe to the Biden family is a likely reason reason why President Biden is now otherwise inexplicably showering Ukraine with hundreds of billions of US taxpayer dollars. “Bribery” is one of the explicit bases for impeachment specified in Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution - far more specific than the more nebulous “high Crimes & Misdemeanors” clause that was used for both Trump impeachments. This time U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill for a personal bribe, and even worse our nation is marching closer to major conflict with a nuclear superpower as a consequence. If the tables were turned & a Russian state-affiliated company had *actually* paid millions to a Trump family member, and then if Trump had sent hundreds of billions to Russia to support them in war, Trump would have been impeached & removed from office instantly. We cannot and should not apply two standards of justice. Prosecuting Biden will not be the focus of my administration, but there can be no reconciliation without first getting the TRUTH.
@tristanleavitt - Tristan Leavitt
🧵@WaysandMeansGOP voted to release all these IRS whistleblower documents pursuant to its legal authority under 26 USC 6103. Some items to point your attention to regarding the investigation... https://waysandmeans.house.gov/event/meeting-on-documents-protected-under-internal-revenue-code-section-6103-2/
@tristanleavitt - Tristan Leavitt
@WaysandMeansGOP ➡️The FBI Form 302 summarizing its March 28, 2019 interview with Gal Luft. https://gop-waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/T18-Exhibit-400-HWM-Gal-Luft-Interview-Requested-Redactions_Redacted.pdf
@tristanleavitt - Tristan Leavitt
@WaysandMeansGOP ➡️ A month before AUSA Wolf told investigators she thought they should give up on the search warrant for BlueStar Strategies, she told them during the drafting process that the proposed search warrant should have nothing in it about "Political Figure 1" (Pres. Biden).
@tristanleavitt - Tristan Leavitt
@WaysandMeansGOP ➡️ SSA Shapley previously described the FBI asking the prosecution team on 9/21/20 if they could cut the investigation down to just 5 interviews. SSA Shapley's memorandum of this call has now been released: https://gop-waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/T84-Shapley-3_Attachment-3_WMRedacted.pdf
@tristanleavitt - Tristan Leavitt
@WaysandMeansGOP ➡️ Before AUSA Wolf even received the October 23, 2020 briefing on the confidential human source FD-1023 (later released by Grassley), she had already pre-judged it. This info further undermines @RepRaskin's claim that the Biden bribery allegations were fully investigated.
@tristanleavitt - Tristan Leavitt
@WaysandMeansGOP @RepRaskin Pittsburgh reportedly found this info was *not* disinformation. But no wonder that just 6 weeks later Wolf told investigators (who didn't know about the bribery allegations) they couldn't ask about Joe Biden because there was "no specific criminality to that line of questioning."
@tristanleavitt - Tristan Leavitt
@WaysandMeansGOP @RepRaskin Critics will no doubt argue that AUSA Wolf being "ordered" by the Principal Deputy Attorney General to receive the briefing somehow shows the Barr DOJ interfering. But Wolf was Hunter Biden's firewall. (Here rejecting the request to search HB's residence despite probable cause.)
@tristanleavitt - Tristan Leavitt
@WaysandMeansGOP @RepRaskin ➡️ Long before IRS SAC Waldon refused to answer Congress's questions about the storage unit that AUSA Wolf tipped HB's lawyers off about, Waldon's predecessor SAC was talking with IRS-CI leadership about his frustration with the Delaware USAO's not allowing that search warrant.
@tristanleavitt - Tristan Leavitt
@WaysandMeansGOP @RepRaskin SSA Shapley's Significant Case Report to his chain of command for that month of Dec. 2020 contained the type of information US Atty Weiss was no doubt unhappy to later read, leading to his retaliation against SSA Shapley.
@tristanleavitt - Tristan Leavitt
@WaysandMeansGOP @RepRaskin ➡️ IRS investigators learned in Sep. 2021 from @CNN that they had "an email from Hunter saying he expected all this 'stuff' to go away when his dad becomes President." https://gop-waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/T67-Exhibit-506-Plea-offer-Email-with-IRS-09.22.2021_WMRedacted.pdf
@tristanleavitt - Tristan Leavitt
@WaysandMeansGOP @RepRaskin @CNN ➡️ SSA Shapley's May 2021 report highlighted that AUSA Wolf "did not want any of the agents to look into the allegation" regarding campaign finance violations. She "does not want to include their Public Integrity Unit because they would take authority away from her."
@tristanleavitt - Tristan Leavitt
@WaysandMeansGOP @RepRaskin @CNN By 1/12/22, as the IRS charging recommendations were being finalized, SSA Shapley recorded that AUSA Wolf again said "she is not 'personally' interested in pursuing" the campaign finance case, and again indicated working with Public Integrity was just "more levels of approval."
@tristanleavitt - Tristan Leavitt
@WaysandMeansGOP @RepRaskin @CNN ➡️ It's a big deal that U.S. Attorney Matt Graves declined to bring a case against HB after the WH announced on 3/31/22 Pres. Biden didn't think his son had done anything wrong. This statement from the WH added to an already clear conflict of interest. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/31/press-briefing-by-director-of-communications-kate-bedingfield-and-nec-director-brian-deese/
@tristanleavitt - Tristan Leavitt
@WaysandMeansGOP @RepRaskin @CNN Graves should have recused himself as a presidential appointee. But the WH spokesperson's timing may have influenced Graves overruling his career First Assistant, who had told DOJ Tax Division they were optimistic about the case against HB and would assign an AUSA of their own.
@tristanleavitt - Tristan Leavitt
@WaysandMeansGOP @RepRaskin @CNN I've already shared a 🧵 here on the chain of events the White House's 3/31/22 statement kicked off, particularly AG Garland being grilled by Senator Hagerty on 4/26/22: https://x.com/tristanleavitt/status/1703135027775881366?s=20.
@tristanleavitt - Tristan Leavitt
@WaysandMeansGOP @RepRaskin @CNN ➡️ The timeline in Sep. 2022, when the HB case was presented in the Central District of California, is also illuminating. Recall SSA Shapley's testimony that prosecutors seemed to delay the California case until U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada (a Kamala Harris donor) was confirmed.
@tristanleavitt - Tristan Leavitt
@WaysandMeansGOP @RepRaskin @CNN What has previously gone unnoticed is the timeline of public events in this period. On 9/18/22 Pres. Biden was interviewed on 60 Minutes and (incorrectly) said HB's troubles had caused no conflict for the government. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-joe-biden-60-minutes-interview-transcript-2022-09-18/
@tristanleavitt - Tristan Leavitt
@WaysandMeansGOP @RepRaskin @CNN Estrada was sworn in on 3/19/22--the day after Pres. Biden's 60 Minutes interview. That same day, 33 Republican Senators wrote to AG Garland asking that he give U.S. Attorney Weiss special counsel authorities to avoid political conflicts of interest. https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Hunter-Biden-Special-Counsel-Letter-FINAL-2.pdf
@bennyjohnson - Benny Johnson
BIDEN: “I just look… I mean… *long pause*… I'll never forget… Well, I won't go into that —Anyway...”
@LindseyGrahamSC - Lindsey Graham
There were numerous legal and factual concerns about the 2020 presidential election. As the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with many others, I expressed concerns and investigated different allegations. The president has the right and duty, just like others involved in the process, to challenge the results. While I voted to certify the 2020 election, there were problems. It is very unnerving to see the justice system try to criminalize a president for questioning and challenging an election.
@Techno_Fog - Techno Fog
Special Counsel Robert Hur's report has been released. "Biden willfully retained" marked and unmarked classified documents at his home. This "risked serious damage to America's national security" Yet Biden will not be charged. Here are the highlights 🧵 https://t.co/1iS7pgEQx5
@Techno_Fog - Techno Fog
There are tapes: in 2017, Biden told a writer he "found all the classified stuff downstairs" at his Delaware home. These documents were later found by the FBI. Hur: this evidence shows "Biden willfully retained the marked classified documents about Afghanistan." https://t.co/3zbrUkuL99
@Techno_Fog - Techno Fog
There is also evidence that Biden: - Unlawfully retained classified notebooks post-Vice Presidency. - Disclosed classified info in his notebooks to his ghostwriter. https://t.co/N0bcZNUNnn
@Techno_Fog - Techno Fog
Biden's excuse to the Special Counsel amounts to a criminal false statement: Biden explained that when he described material in his notebooks as "classified" he did not actually mean "classified" The Special Counsel didn't buy it. https://t.co/Pq5BnM52Bo
@Techno_Fog - Techno Fog
Recordings from 2017 captured Biden giving his ghostwriter classified info multiple times. Biden was on record admitting the info "probably was classified." https://t.co/FIsCaYAOUX
@Techno_Fog - Techno Fog
Obstruction of Justice: Biden's ghostwriter "deleted digital audio recordings of his conversations with Mr. Biden" after he learned of Hur's appointment as Special Counsel. Hur declined to press charges.
@Techno_Fog - Techno Fog
Photographs of documents (many containing classified info) found in Biden's home: https://t.co/V6Jh2PogEz
@Techno_Fog - Techno Fog
Biden's serious cognitive issues are exposed - "He did not remember when he was vice president" He forgot "when his term began" "He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died." https://t.co/a6l7xZ3PE1
@Techno_Fog - Techno Fog
Hur would decline to press charges against Biden for a number of reasons: A jury would not likely convict. Biden is too old to prosecute. A jury could believe he did not willfully retain the docs. A jury would see Biden "as an elderly man with a poor memory." https://t.co/4WrcpaVVmm
@WarClandestine - Clandestine
The Democrats just told us for 4 years that Joe was not senile, and anyone who questioned his mental acuity was a Right-wing extremist. Now, the Special Counsel claim Joe was too old and senile to be charged with classified document crimes… 8 years ago. Joe is above the law. https://t.co/kizQY5jicl
@eyeslasho - i/o
There's still more damning language in the just-released special counsel's report: "Mr. Biden's apparent lapses and failures... in 2017 [italics mine] will likely appear consistent with... diminished faculties and faulty memory. Therefore, we conclude that the evidence does not establish that Mr. Biden willfully [italics mine] disclosed national defense information." Basically: We're not going to charge him with a crime because he was mentally unfit in 2017 to commit that crime. (Does anyone imagine that in the years since then his mental faculties have improved?) Holy smokes.
@krassenstein - Brian Krassenstein
I'll say this loud and clear. The Special Counsel's claims about Biden's memory is concerning to me. While his lawyers argued over the wording that Hur used, it is disingenuous for any Democrat to pretend that the statements are not concerning. With that said, if you think that I'm going to vote for the man who is only 3 years younger, who has actually been indicted for 91 felonies and has the complete opposite views as I do, you are nuts. Biden has done a good job for the country because he has surrounded himself with great people. Trump didn't do the same. Even he admits that he hired bad people. I will vote for Biden even though I wish that both parties would start nominating and electing younger people who have more to lose if this country fails. Democrats should not feel shy speaking up about Biden's age, just as Republicans should not feel shy speaking up against Trump's alleged crimes and sexual assault, as well as his age.
@RepThomasMassie - Thomas Massie
Special Counsel just reported that Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” and engaged in practices that “present serious risks to national security.” Even more disturbing: Biden would lack a “mental state of willfulness” necessary to prosecute! https://t.co/v9fKoKH17I
@RepThomasMassie - Thomas Massie
The President of the United States is not well… https://t.co/47ZKE6T9JN
@VDHanson - Victor Davis Hanson
“Oh What a Tangled Web Biden Weaves, When He First Practices to Deceive” Joe Biden and his White House handlers continue to peddle misinformation if not lies about his removal of classified files. The worst is that Biden—supposedly so unlike Trump—came forward willingly as soon as he realized that he had unlawfully, but inadvertently, removed and possessed classified files. And thus he cooperated fully and promptly with federal authorities. The truth is far, far different. Biden removed files improperly both as a Senator and Vice President. He held some of them in his unlawful possession for perhaps at least 14 years without a word to authorities, dating back at least to his departure from the Senate on January 15, 2009 when he resigned to become Vice President—or if not longer over his some 36-year Senate career. In fact, in 2017 Biden was fully aware that he had wrongly removed these classified files. As Hur noted, there is a taped conversation on record between Biden and his ghostwriter to just that effect. Biden, at home in Virginia, was recorded as remarking, “I just found all the classified stuff downstairs”. And yet Biden apparently did nothing. He never came forward to any federal authorities for nearly the next five years. So given that knowledge, why did the attorneys belatedly disclose Biden’s possession of the files on November 2, 2022? Civic virtue? Altruism? Respect for the law? Hardly. Otherwise, Biden would have disclosed his unlawful possession at any time during either the intervening prior years when he was a private citizen or during the first 18 months of his presidency, when he knowingly still possessed classified files and still did nothing about it. In truth, Biden would likely never have come forward, save for one insurmountable problem: Merrick Garland had likely decided to appoint Jack Smith as a special prosecutor to investigate the Trump files that the FBI had swooped into Mar-a-Lago looking for 3 months earlier on August 8, 2022. In other words, knowing that Smith or a generic special counsel would very quickly be appointed (Smith was sworn in a little over two weeks later, on November 18, 2022), suddenly Biden and Co. preempted that announcement, in fear that Biden had done virtually the same thing as Trump—albeit without presidential declassification power and for at least 14 years in possession of classified files. Had the attorneys and Biden not come forward, Trump and others would have asked whether Biden had not also removed files. So to get out in front of the formal announcement of the Smith appointment, they preempted, misleadingly and disingenuously, preening that civic virtue had prompted Biden’s “voluntary” disclosures and “cooperation”. A final note: one of the more disturbing moments in Biden’s catastrophic press conference was his flare up at Hur’s revelation (“How dare he bring up that!”) that in formal interviews an enfeebled Biden had not remembered the general date of his son’s tragic death from a glioblastoma brain tumor on May 30th, 2015 at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC. Biden went on to vent at Hur. But Hur was simply documenting his analysis that Biden was severely cognitively impaired, and not as VP Kamala Harris claimed, gratuitously smearing Biden. But who exactly had serially lied about Beau Biden’s demise, by claiming that he had died while on duty in Iraq, serving in the Delaware National Guard as a Judge Advocate? Joe Biden. He has still a bad habit of directing attention away from grieving families of fallen soldiers, by claiming that he too experienced the same nightmare. Biden had been pilloried in the media to cease such false narratives about his son’s tragic premature death due to natural causes back in the United States, years after his deployment in Iraq. But to no avail, he continues spinning such myths as he did repeatedly as late as last year. Sadly, doctoring family tragedies for his own purposes is not new to Biden, as Jack Fowler noted in 2019. The tragic death in a December 1972 traffic accident of his first wife and daughter, and the injuries of his two sons, was raised for decades by Biden—but in a completely false context of blaming an innocent truck driver, Curtis Dunn for the death. Dunn was innocent of any culpability. No matter, Biden in his serial retelling for years repeatedly smeared Dunn as drunk driver (“an errant driver who stopped to drink”) who had killed his wife and daughter. Biden finally gave in to the repeated pleas for decades from the truck driver and after his death, his family. Or as a 2010 Mark Bowden Atlantic essay on Biden noted: “For many years, he described the driver of the truck that struck and killed his first wife and their daughter in December 1972 as drunk, which he apparently was not. The tale could hardly be more tragic; why add in a baseless charge? The family of the truck driver has labored to correct the record, but Biden made the reference to drunkenness as recently as 2007, needlessly resurrecting a false and painful accusation.”
@IanSams46 - Ian Sams
The Special Counsel report was ~400 pages long, meandering and confusing. That led to a lot of misreporting on its conclusions, namely that it found POTUS “willfully retained” classified docs. That’s wrong. I sent a letter last night to the WH press corps explaining the facts: https://t.co/Dd4pI9abg6
@RobertKennedyJr - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
During the 35 years that I’ve known Joe Biden, he’s always demonstrated his core decency. He has shown his affection and esteem for my family by displaying a bust of my father in the Oval Office. I suspect that the White House decision to deny me Secret Service protection — and many other more important decisions — are being made, not by the President himself, but by the anonymous men in lanyards who now seem to be running our government.
@julie_kelly2 - Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
NEW: Jack Smith's latest filing in classified docs case. Laughably insists Trump's case of retaining classified docs is way worse than Biden's--even tho Biden had a lot more classified records; stored them at numerous locations in accessible areas of his house and Penn Biden Center; held top secret files on foreign adversaries including Iraq, China, and Iran and files on Afghanistan war; had been admonished in 2010 about reckless handling of classified papers as VP; had a history of failing to return classified records; didn't begin a search for classified material in his possession until THE SAME DAY his DOJ issued a subpoena in May 2022 against Trump for more records; shared classified records with his ghostwriter who then DELETED RECORDINGS with Biden; appeared to block another FBI search at Delaware home btw Dec 2022 and Jan 2023; did not want to hand over his notebooks containing classified papers and notes. BUT OTHER THAN THAT...
@julie_kelly2 - Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
More here: https://www.declassified.live/p/why-joe-bidens-handling-of-classified
@ColonelTowner - ColonelTowner-Watkins
Oh my God. Are you serious right now? You know what endangered my life? My government, CIA and NATO overthrowing over 80 governments and then deploying me into harms way to get shot at so global companies could exploit other countries riches or harvest opium. Not one fucking time has the US engaged in a battle for anything other than greed. Period. There has never been a vital US interest in any country post WW2. There was opium in Vietnam, AFG, bananas in Honduras, Nicaragua, etc, there was gold in Haiti, Indonesia, Philippines etc. we left US military dead in every fucking country. There was never any communist threat. You lied about it all. You called Lumumba a communist bc he wanted to sell Congo’s uranium directly to the U.S. and the U.S. refused and killed him AFTER you called him a communist. ALLENDE wasn’t a communist either; he wanted Chile to own their own telephone company so CIA front ITT couldn’t spy on them via telephone or with CRYPTO AG. He wanted 50% of the profit on their copper. But nnnooo. ITT gets Nixon to send in the CIA and kills Allende and installs US’s School of Americas graduate Pinchot who precedes to murder 10’s of thousands of Chileans, who were not ok living under a fascist CIA installed killer. Shut the fuck up about Assange endangering our military lives the fucking war mongers in the Bush and Obama admin endangered them by sending them there in the first place and then promoting pussy ass generals who wouldn’t stand up to ROEs that murdered innocent civilians just like in Vietnam, Nicaragua, El Salvador etc. The days of you warmongering killers lying to us is over.
@Vltra_MK - Michael Rae Khoury
🚨 JOHN DURHAM JR – MS-13 RICO UPDATE 🚨 Looks like John Durham Jr. was quietly made the Chief of the Long Island Division of the Eastern District of New York, as well as Chief of the Long Island Division’s Criminal Section in 2024... [The Hillary Clinton Email investigation started in the EDNY and was moved to the SDNY – where John Durham Jr. clerked in 2001.] (this is where the Ericsson/Telcordia/FISA data center used to spy on Billions is conveniently located) As Chief of the Long Island Division, John oversees both the Criminal and Civil Division for the Long Island Office. This is the LARGEST ACTIVE multinational Federal Taskforce on the planet and was created in 2019 to target MS-13. John joined the Office in October 2005 and has served in the General Crimes and Long Island Criminal Sections. He has been appointed to several leadership positions in the Office and the Department of Justice, including Deputy Chief for the Long Island Criminal Section, the Office’s Capital Case Coordinator, the Attorney General’s Review Committee on Capital Cases and Chair of the MS-13 Subcommittee of the Attorney General’s Transnational Organized Crime Task Force. In August 2019, John was appointed to serve as the Director of Joint Task Force Vulcan (JTFV), a Department of Justice initiative to combat La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), where he spearheaded indictments against MS-13’s highest-ranking international leaders. Durham Jr. became Chief in 2024. During his time in the Office, John has investigated, prosecuted, and supervised a broad-range of federal offenses, including racketeering, murders, terrorism, civil rights, obstruction of justice, armed robberies, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, firearms and public corruption. Most significantly, he has directed the Office’s efforts to dismantle the operations of MS-13 in the EDNY, as well as nationally and internationally. In a series of EDNY indictments, he has led teams of AUSAs and investigators that have arrested and convicted hundreds of MS-13 leaders, members and associates, including charges related to more than 65 murders committed in this district between January 2008 and the present. As the Director of JTFV, John led a team of AUSAs and law enforcement officers from across the country, and secured significant indictments against MS-13’s command and control structure across the United States, Central America and Mexico, including the first use of national security charges against MS-13 leaders. In addition to his work combatting MS-13, John has prosecuted defendants who attempted to travel to Yemen for the purpose of joining al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and fighting jihad against United States allies, and members of numerous other violent criminal organizations, including the Bloods, 18th Street gang, Crips, Salvadorans With Pride and violent narcotics trafficking and robbery crews. Finally, in addition to his violent crime work, John has prosecuted several significant and sensitive public corruption and civil rights matters, including the former Chief of Department for the Suffolk County Police Department, the former Suffolk County District Attorney and former Chief of Investigations and Chief of the Government Corruption Bureau for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, a then-sitting Nassau County Legislator, a New York City Police Department sergeant and a Food and Drug Administration official. His mandate and authority is absolutely massive – he started prosecution against MS-13's corporate divisions in 2024... It should be a very interesting next couple of years... 💯
@Vltra_MK - Michael Rae Khoury
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@Vltra_MK - Michael Rae Khoury
"Feds received whistleblower evidence in 2017 alleging Clinton Foundation wrongdoing"... the foundation and its projects reported collecting about $2.5 billion to help global crises, from AIDS to earthquakes, even as its own auditors, lawyers and employees privately warned of problems over the years. 6,000 pages of evidence attached to a whistleblower submission filed secretly more than a year ago with the IRS and FBI. That evidence was assembled by a private firm called MDA Analytics LLC, run by accomplished ex-federal criminal investigators, who alleged the Clinton Foundation engaged in illegal activities and may be liable for millions of dollars in delinquent taxes and penalties. In addition to the IRS, the firm’s partners have had contact with prosecutors in the main Justice Department in Washington and FBI agents in Little Rock, Ark. And last week, a federal prosecutor suddenly asked for documents from their private investigation. The 48-page submission, dated Aug. 11, 2017, supports its claims with 95 exhibits, including internal legal reviews that the foundation conducted on itself in 2008 and 2011. Those reviews flagged serious concerns about legal compliance, improper commingling of personal and charity business and “quid pro quo” promises made to donors while Hillary Clinton was secretary of State. https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/420131-feds-received-whistleblower-evidence-in-2017-alleging-clinton-foundation/
@Vltra_MK - Michael Rae Khoury
All connected through CIVIL and Criminal RICO cases…
@Vltra_MK - Michael Rae Khoury
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@Vltra_MK - Michael Rae Khoury
9/11 — James Comey HSBC connections…
@Vltra_MK - Michael Rae Khoury
"FBI Dir. Comey: Member, HSBC Board – Clinton Foundation and Drug Cartel Money Launderer" All the same law firms are linked to offshore Banking... https://geopolitics.co/2017/03/21/fbi-dir-james-comey-board-member-of-hsbc-clinton-foundation-drug-cartel-launderer/
@Vltra_MK - Michael Rae Khoury
Let’s investigate… Many are unaware that Comey’s served on the board of banking giant HSBC (‘international drug money clearing house’) before parachuting softly into the head of the FBI in 2013. That’s only the beginning… It appears that James Comey (who is actually a lawyer by trade) also has long history of cases ending favorable to Clintons, including the case of Sandy Berger, a former Clinton Administration aid. During the Berger probe, Comey said publicly that ‘we take issues of classified information very seriously’, all the while seeming to undermine the scope of the investigation – presumably to protect the Clintons: “In 2004, Comey, then serving as a deputy attorney general in the Justice Department, apparently limited the scope of the criminal investigation of Sandy Berger, which left out former Clinton administration officials who may have coordinated with Berger in his removal and destruction of classified records from the National Archives. The documents were relevant to accusations that the Clinton administration was negligent in the build-up to the 9/11 terrorist attack.” “Curiously, Berger, Lynch and Cheryl Mills all worked as partners in the Washington law firm Hogan & Hartson, which prepared tax returns for the Clintons and did patent work for a software firm that played a role in the private email server Hillary Clinton used when she was secretary of state.” “Hogan & Hartson in Virginia filed a patent trademark request on May 19, 2004, for Denver-based MX Logic Inc., the computer software firm that developed the email encryption system used to manage Clinton’s private email server beginning in July 2013. A tech expert has observed that employees of MX Logic could have had access to all the emails that went through her account. In 1999, President Bill Clinton nominated [Loretta] Lynch for the first of her two terms as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, a position she held until she joined Hogan & Hartson in March 2002 to become a partner in the firm’s Litigation Practice Group.”
@Vltra_MK - Michael Rae Khoury
Now you know why they're pressing for the "9/11 Terrorists" (48hr) to plead guilty in order to avoid life imprisonment... Or why the CEO of the Clinton Foundation quit to go to BARCLAYS... Why don't they want transparency or for the case to go to trial!? https://t.co/uOfOoOCaPs
@Vltra_MK - Michael Rae Khoury
Tying it all together a bit more…
@WallStreetApes - Wall Street Apes
The FBI and Department of Justice are refusing to hand over details on the Donald Trump attempted assassination shooter to Congress Says they’re being stonewalled and they are INTENTIONALLY withholding evidence from the Intelligence Committee “We submitted numerous requests to the Department of Justice and FBI. Their response is, Their response is, this is an ongoing criminal investigation, we can't give that information to congress” “That, in my view, is an unacceptable position” Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), a leader of the task force investigating the Trump assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania says “I sit on the intelligence committee. I've sat on the armed services committee, and congress all the time gets access to our nation's most sensitive secrets, ongoing operations, intelligence operations, military operations. You can't tell me that there isn't a way to put us into a secure facility and get us information about an ongoing criminal investigation when I regularly am receiving briefs on what our our spies and our military special operators are doing regularly around the world.” — “So none of this stands to reason, and we have dedicated ourselves to continue to get those answers. And if the FBI and DOJ thinks that they can wait us out and stonewall us, they are wrong”
@drawandstrike - Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit
Hur explained very patiently in his report - and then again during his live testimony - that the reason he decided NOT to prosecute Joe Biden for illegally taking classified materials without authorization and keeping them for many years and showing them unauthorized persons was... ...and this is on the record... ...he didn't think a jury would convict this nice old man with memory issues of the federal charges. Of course, the major issue at the time for me was the fact that it's impossible for an employee of the Executive Branch to prosecute the Chief Executive of the Executive Branch, something we hashed out extensively during the Mueller Special Counsel unpleasantness from 2017-2019. Nevertheless, instead of just clearly stating he couldn't proceed with a prosecution of Biden for stealing/displaying the classified materials because Biden WAS THE PRESIDENT in office, Hur explained he chose not to prosecute a clearly guilty defendant because he didn't think a jury would convict a nice old confused man with cognitive issues, even IF the evidence decisively showed he committed the charged crimes. And the evidence did, in fact, clearly show Biden committed an entire series of federal offenses. Good thing his cognitive issues saved him, right?
@drawandstrike - Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit
I understand a lot of people thought the entire Robert Hur Special Counsel investigation was a big fat nothingburger. Only now are they starting to realize what it means for a Special Counsel appointed by Biden's very own DOJ under Merrick Garland to have discovered the sitting President had...shall we say....COGNITIVE ISSUES. What I found **exceedingly curious** was WHY somebody wanted to get it into the OFFICIAL FEDERAL RECORD that a DOJ-appointed Special Prosecutor found that President Joe Biden was having...uh...PRONOUNCED MEMORY ISSUES during interviews with his investigators. The MOST I'd expected out of the Hur investigation was the admission that...yes... 1. Biden took a whole bunch of classified documents home with him that he had no authorization to take. Federal crime #1. 2. Biden **displayed** and discussed these classified materials with people not authorized to see/know about them. Federal crime #2. 3. BUT because BIDEN WAS PRESIDENT, Hur's hands were tied and he wasn't allowed to prosecute a case against his own boss, the Chief Executive. That's as FAR as I expected Hur to go. An admission that he couldn't prosecute because a LEO officer of the Executive Branch is not allowed to prosecute his own boss. Any more than a JAG officer could court-martial his own Commander-in-Chief. BUT...as it so happened, Hur threw me and everybody else a huge unexpected CURVE BALL in his final report. Hur gave a DIFFERENT EXPLANATION as to WHY he declined to prosecute Biden for the very serious federal offenses he had obviously committed with these classified documents. In his final report, Hur has an entire section devoted to laying out Biden's memory issues, his cognitive difficulties and how this affected his decision not to prosecute Biden. This explanation for his decision not to prosecute Biden so upset Rep. Adam Schiff that Schiff dressed Hur down AT LENGTH during Hur's testimony to the House Committee. Watch: https://youtu.be/Sg7ReCWasH0?si=gAVLUUobUg6mRpIN… Schiff was especially upset that Hur was officially opening up the door to Biden having pronounced issues with cognition/memory during his presidency.
@drawandstrike - Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit
Schiff, a central figure in the US Congress involved in the cover up conspiracy to hide Biden's cognitive decline from the public for 3 1/2 years [until an EXTREMELY UNFORTUNATE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE OCCURRED between Trump and Biden] was extremely UNHAPPY that Hur was opening up this door 2 years ago. On the record. In an official report. Over a year before that embarrassing debate happened that led to Biden being forced to drop out of the race.
@drawandstrike - Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit
Notice what Schiff keeps RETURNING TO as he browbeats Hur for including this section in his PUBLIC report: YOU COULD HAVE KEPT THIS PRIVATE. YOU COULD HAVE TOLD ONLY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. BUT YOU INSISTED ON MAKING THESE COMMENTS ABOUT BIDEN'S MEMORY PUBLIC! https://t.co/BrBwu9nPrT
@drawandstrike - Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit
I don't really know what some people out there THOUGHT was going to happen. I knew what was going to happen since it was obvious to me from watching Biden even during the 2020 election cycle he was already having cognitive issues. The only REAL suspense after they stole 2020 for him was: how LONG were they going to able to successfully keep the FAKE NARRATIVE GOING that "Biden is fine, it's just your imagination!"? Turns out they managed to keep the Fake Narrative 'Biden is Fine!' in place for almost 3 1/2 years, until the Trump/Biden presidential debate occurred on June 27, 2024. After that dismal Biden performance, top Democrats who'd participated in that 3 1/2 year cover up quickly forced Biden out of the race to replace him with Kamala Harris. Harris was then defeated handily by Donald J. Trump, who is now commenting daily on the growing 'autopen' scandal and last night Trump directly advanced the claim that both the autopen issue and Biden's cognitive issue during his last year in office directly call into question the validity of the pardon's issued during the last days of Biden's term. If you didn't see this coming, why, you just haven't paying attention, have you?
@drawandstrike - Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit
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@RealSLokhova - Svetlana Lokhova
So they 1) re-classified the document Pres Trump declassified to show evidence of their crimes, 2) raided his house to steal and hide those documents until 2091, 3) accused him of holding/passing classified documents. The document is the most important one according to reporters because it shows they opened FBI counter-intelligence investigation of the most senior Trump advisors based on what they knew were lies, and they continued to use the informer anyway to lie about others.
@tristanleavitt - Tristan Leavitt
@WaysandMeansGOP voted to release all these IRS whistleblower documents pursuant to its legal authority under 26 USC 6103. Some items to point your attention to regarding the investigation...