When Special Counsel Jack Smith, 55, charged 77-year-old President Donald Trump June 8 in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents no one imagined that the White House coordinated the charges. President Joe Biden, 80, assured the public that the White House has nothing to do with any charges brought by Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland and Special Counsel Jack Smith against Trump. Yet the New York Post reported Aug. 26 that Jay Bratt, the Justice Department’s top counterintelligence official met with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Caroline Saba March 31 at the White House. Also attending the meeting was unnamed FBI field agent, indicating close coordination between the White House, Special Counsel office and the FBI. Looks like the 2016 Russian hoax déjà vu, a conspiracy of government agencies all going after Trump for criminal charges.
Faced with the prospect of government collusion, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya S. Chutkan has some things to consider, other that scheduling Trump for trial on March 4, 2024. Chutkan must answer a Constitutional question of whether the government has conspired to charge Trump with violating the Presidential Records and Espionage Acts, giving ground for tossing out the government’s case. Special Counsel Jack Smith, coordinated with the FBI to raid Trump’s Mar-a-Lag residence Aug. 8, 2022, removing White House moving boxes found in Trump’s basement containing old classified documents. Smith claimed in charging Trump June. 4 that Trump threatened U.S. national security by harboring classified documents. What does Smith think Biden does waging proxy war against the Russian Federation? Do worthless old classified docs really threaten U.S. national security?
Trump reacted on his Truth Social platform to the New York Post’s revelations about DOJ’s Jay Bratt meeting at the White House with Caroline Saba and an unnamed FBI agent. White House and DOJ officials did nothing to disclose their meeting, something uncovered by the New York Post. “It has just been reported that aides to TRUMP prosecutor Deranged Jack Smith met with high officials at the White House just prior to these political Sleezebags indicting me OVER NOTHING,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Liberal media wants to ignore the meeting between the DOJ, White House and FBI. Hasn’t the DOJ or FBI learned anything from the Russian hoax investigation against Trump? How many more fake stories must appear in the New York Times, Washington Post and on CNN or MSNBC, to justify the illegal prosecutions of Trump’s alleged crimes?
What is Trump supposed to think of Smith’s charges when he’s been through years of fake investigations by the DOJ and FBI over his alleged ties to the Kremlin. Even after former Special Counsel Robert Mueller acquitted Trump of any wrongdoing March 23, 2019, Democrats, Congress and the press still accused Trump of Russian collusion. So when it comes to the many charges against Trump today by Smith, what’s Trump supposed to think with the Post’s new report? DOJ officials say they don’t comment on meetings with government officials. White House officials wouldn’t comment on the meetings between the DOJ’s Bratt and Saba, Deputy Chief of Staff at the White House Counsel’s office. Bratt was one of the original investigators in the Mar-a-Lago documents case involved with Smith. No matter how partisan the judge, Smith’s June 1 documents/ case must to tossed out.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) must subpoena Jack Smith to ask about his coordination with the White House before charging Trump with 37 felonies on June 4. “If this is so, which it is, that means that Biden and his Fascist Thugs knew and APPROVED of this Country dividing Form of Election Interference, despite their insisting that they knew nothing,” Trump said on Truth Social. How can any federal judge accept the charges when they have proof of White House and Special Counsel conspiracy? Bratt and Saba’s March 31 White House meeting with the FBI present shows a coordinated attempt to charge Trump in the Mar-a-Labo classified documents case. Trump officials should file for injunctive relief in the Appeals or Supreme Court to stop what looks like an illegal government conspiracy.
Jordan and Comer have urgent work to do on weaponization of the DOJ and FBI now related to Trump four indictments. Showing that Smith conspired with the White House and FBI before charging Trump in the Mar-a-Lago documents case June 4 should invalidate the case to any objective federal judge. Garland and Smith have a lot of explaining to do about how the Special Counsel coordinated its case against Trump with the White House, despite claiming that the White House was not involved. New York Post uncovered the White House lie that it was not involved in prosecuting the various cases against Trump. Whether Smith’s charges are about Mar-a-Lago classified docs or about Jan. 6 Capitol riots, all his charges must be tossed out for conspiring with the White House. How can any federal judge accept the government’s cases against Trump knowing the conspiracy with the White House?
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
