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This is Jeffrey Clark, one of donald trumps assistant attorneys general who had his house raided by the fbi in connection with the plot to overthrow the election on January 6 2021
I want more photos like this of his administration, and him
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#donald trump#attempted coup#rudy giuliani#john eastman#jeffrey clark#kenneth chesebro#sidney powell
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Donald Trump just needs a few names.
In recent months, the former president has asked close advisers, including at least one of his personal attorneys, if “we know” all the names of senior FBI agents and Justice Department personnel who have worked on the federal probes into him. That’s according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter and another person briefed on it.
Trump has then privately discussed that should he return to the White House, it is imperative his new Department of Justice “quickly” and “immediately” purge the FBI and DOJ’s ranks of these officials and agents who’ve led the Trump-related criminal investigations, the sources recount. The ex-president has of course dubbed all such probes as illegitimate “witch hunts,” and is now campaigning for the White House on a platform of “retribution” and cleaning house.
Separately, the twice-impeached former president has been saying for many months that on “day one” of his potential second term, he wants FBI director Christopher Wray “out” of the bureau, according to another source familiar with the matter and two people close to Trump. It’s an ironic turn, given that Trump appointed Wray in 2017.
(Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Trump’s 2024 primary rival, has also pledged to fire Wray, telling Fox News last week that he’d do so on “day one.”)
But in the years since, Trump came to deeply distrust Wray. By the end of 2020, Trump was venting to senior administration officials that he would make it a top priority to replace Wray “next year,” blasting the director for not wholesale purging the FBI of non-Trump-loyalists. Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, and thus didn’t get his chance to fire Wray in 2021.
During some of the conversations this year, including at Trump’s Florida club Mar-a-Lago, some of Trump’s close political allies told him that they are working on figuring out the identities of the FBI and DOJ staff and forming lists, two of the sources relay to Rolling Stone.
However, others have complained that the feds aren’t making it easy for them.
In December 2022, the conservative nonprofit Judicial Watch — run by prominent Trump ally Tom Fitton — filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding information about “all employees hired by or detailed to the office of Special Counsel Jack Smith.” In April, the Justice Department denied the request on the ground that it was an “unwarranted invasion of personal privacy” and that it would “interfere with enforcement proceedings.”
“One can only conclude, after seeing the uproar over the anti-Trump, partisan Mueller operation, that the Garland Justice Department has something to hide about Jack Smith and his prosecutors again targeting Trump and other Republicans with unprecedented investigations,” Fitton said at the time.
On Friday, Fitton told Rolling Stone that the DOJ is still “stonewalling” him and his group on the identities: “I don’t understand why it is that the names of prosecutors involved in a criminal investigation are secret. The Durham report shows it’s important we know who’s working there. We don’t want Social Security numbers or personal phone numbers, but certainly senior leaders and others who are pursuing this need to be disclosed.”
“We were able to get hiring material for the Mueller investigations, interviews applications and stuff like that,” he added.
Fitton said his group is still seeking the information administratively, but that “this is the type of lawsuit we typically would pursue.”
Other developments have made it harder for MAGA allies to create a comprehensive list of whom to potentially fire. Prior to Smith’s appointment, full names — in official DOJ email addresses — would appear in emails sent by Justice Department lawyers working on the Trump-related probes, to attorneys for subjects and likely targets of the investigations. But in the time since Special Counsel Smith started overseeing the probes last year, such emails began at times only showing initials for multiple DOJ addresses, obscuring the names of certain lawyers or personnel working on the special counsel’s team, according to a source with direct knowledge of the situation.
The feds, including Special Counsel Smith’s office, are currently investigating Trump and his associates for their efforts leading up to the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol attack, as well as for the ex-president’s hoarding of classified documents after he left office. Trump remains the leading candidate for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in various polls, and he has already been indicted in a separate criminal investigation in New York. His lawyers are also expecting a federal indictment in the Justice Department’s Mar-a-Lago documents probe soon, and have already briefed Trump as such.
The identities of law enforcement personnel involved in the Mar-a-Lago investigation have been a flashpoint between Trump and the Justice Department since the FBI executed a search warrant on his residence in August 2022. Prosecutors unsealed a copy of the search warrant with the names of agents redacted, but the former president posted a copy of the document with the names of two FBI agents involved in the search.
The search kicked off an “unprecedented” number of threats against FBI agents and an attack by an armed Trump supporter on the FBI’s Cincinnati field office.
Trump’s latest crusade against the FBI coincides with his plans for a complete remaking of the federal bureaucracy. That includes promises to install extreme loyalists like Jeffrey Clark and Michael Flynn, who aided Trump’s anti-democratic efforts to overturn the 2020 election outcome. Trump also has pledged to sign an executive order, dubbed Schedule F, that would make it easier to hire loyalists and fire nonpartisan civil servants.
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From the November 7, 2023 column by Jack Shafer:
Trump and his think tank loyalists are collecting the ingredients and refining the recipe for an authoritarian regime should he win the 2024 presidential election. According to a page one story in The Washington Post Monday, Trump plans on the first day of his new administration to invoke the Insurrection Act so he can dispatch the military to counter any demonstrations that might resist his policies.
Why might he need the Insurrection Act? Well, the piece also notes Trump intends to turbo-politicize the Department of Justice and order prosecutions of his former aides and officials who have criticized him. Perhaps he thinks the country won’t let him go buck wild on the rule of law without a stink, so he wants to be ready to sic troops on the inevitable protestors. Fingered by Trump for legal beat-downs, the Post reports, are one-time Trump stalwarts and staffers like former chief of staff John F. Kelly, former attorney general William Barr, his ex-attorney Ty Cobb, and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Mark A. Milley. Trump has singled out other officials at the FBI and the Department of Justice for prosecution, the piece adds, as well as President Joe Biden and his family.
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CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM MUST BE MOVED UP THE TO DO LIST.
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the fourteen days of Elections (the twelve days of Christmas parody)
on day one of elections
the just courts gave to us
faith restored to the public trust
on day two of elections
the just courts gave to us
no evil choice and
faith restored to the public trust
on day three of elections
the just courts gave to us
3rd party picks,
no evil choice and
faith restored to the public trust
on day four of elections
the just courts gave to us
four indictments more,
3rd party picks,
no evil choice and
faith restored to the public trust
on day five of elections
the just courts gave to us
fifth grand jury,
four indictments more,
3rd party picks,
no evil choice and
faith restored to the public trust
on day six of elections
the just courts gave to us
six no longer sitting
fifth grand jury,
four indictments more,
3rd party picks,
no evil choice and
faith restored to the public trust
on day seven of elections
the just courts gave to us
seventy plus convictions,
six no longer sitting
fifth grand jury,
four indictments more,
3rd party picks,
no evil choice and
faith restored to the public trust
on day eight of elections
the just courts gave to us
80 felony charges,
seventy plus convictions,
six no longer sitting,
fifth grand jury,
four indictments more,
3rd party picks,
no evil choice and
faith restored to the public trust
on day nine of elections
the just courts gave to us
nine more 6'ers sentenced
80 felony charges,
seventy plus convictions,
six no longer sitting,
fifth grand jury,
four indictments more,
3rd party picks,
no evil choice and
faith restored to the public trust
on day ten of elections
the just courts gave to us
tense lobbyist lockouts,
nine more 6'ers sentenced,
80 felony charges,
seventy plus convictions,
six no longer sitting,
fifth grand jury,
four indictments more,
3rd party picks,
no evil choice and
faith restored to the public trust
on day eleven of elections
the just courts gave to us
eleven swing state pickups,
tense lobbyist lockouts,
nine more 6'ers sentenced,
80 felony charges,
seventy plus convictions,
six no longer sitting,
fifth grand jury,
four indictments more,
3rd party picks,
no evil choice and
faith restored to the public trust
on day twelve of elections
the just courts gave to us
twelve cronies cryin',
eleven swing state pickups,
tense lobbyist lockouts,
nine more 6'ers sentenced,
80 felony charges,
seventy plus convictions,
six no longer sitting,
fifth grand jury,
four indictments more,
3rd party picks,
no evil choice and
faith restored to the public trust
on day thirteen of elections
the just courts gave to us
thirteen-cast ranked choice voting,
twelve cronies cryin',
eleven swing state pickups,
tense lobbyist lockouts,
nine more 6'ers sentenced,
80 felony charges,
seventy plus convictions,
six no longer sitting,
fifth grand jury,
four indictments more,
3rd party picks,
no evil choice and
faith restored to the public trust
on day fourteen of elections
the just courts gave to us
14th ballot removal,
thirteen-cast ranked-choice voting,
twelve cronies cryin',
eleven swing state pickups,
tense lobbyist lockouts,
nine more 6'ers sentenced,
80 felony charges,
seventy plus convictions,
six no longer sitting,
fifth grand jury,
four indictments more,
3rd party picks,
no evil choice and
faith restored to the public trust
(12/9/23)
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A Glimpse Into What Might Have Been
The indictment that was handed down earlier this week, and on which Trump was arraigned yesterday, paints a painfully clear picture of what might well have happened if things had gone just a little bit differently. Jamelle Bouie gives us a chilling view in his OpEd for the New York Times today …
The Most Frightening Part of the Trump Indictment
By Jamelle Bouie
04 August 2023
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The FBI executed a search warrant on former-President Trump’s home in Florida on Monday, the ex-President said, lashing out at law enforcement for what he called “political persecution.”
“My beautiful home Mar A Lago in Palm Beach, Florida is currently under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” Trump said in a statement that included a link for donations to his political action committee.
“After working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid at my home was not necessary or appropriate.”
The remarkable execution of a search warrant at a former president’s home comes as the Justice Department has accelerated its investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and the actions Trump took to overturn the 2020 election results to remain in power.
It was not immediately clear what was examined during the search, nor what the search warrant specified, but Trump said the law enforcement officials “even broke into my safe.”
The Department of Justice (DOJ) declined to comment.
The New York Times reported that the search appeared to be focused on records that Trump brought with him to the Mar-a-Lago estate after leaving the White House.
Last year, the National Archives reportedly asked the Justice Department to investigate after authorities recovered 15 boxes of materials from Trump’s Florida home that should have been left with government records keepers. Among the retrieved materials were some that were classified.
The search would appear to be the first of its kind against a former president, but it remains unclear whether it’s a prelude to criminal charges, another scenario without precedent in U.S. history.
In order to have secured a search warrant, federal law enforcement would have had to show probable cause supporting their suspicion of criminal activity and get authorization from a federal magistrate judge.
In recent weeks, DOJ has been focusing on Trump’s efforts to remain in power through a false elector scheme, transmitting what campaign officials referred to as “fake” election certificates in order to reverse the 2020 election in key states won by President Biden. The department has reportedly convened a federal grand jury to investigate the scheme, in addition to the grand jury investigation into the Jan. 6 attack.
It also previously executed search warrants on two lawyers who worked with the former-President.
DOJ seized the phone of John Eastman, who crafted memos for the campaign detailing the false elector strategy as well as a plan for then-Vice President Mike Pence to buck his ceremonial duty to certify the election results. And it also searched the home of Jeffrey Clark, an assistant attorney general Trump weighed installing as attorney general so he could forward an investigation into his baseless claims of election fraud.
But there are signs the department may have expanded its probe.
Last week, Trump’s former White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, was reportedly called to testify before a federal grand jury, as was his deputy Patrick Philbin.
The two men may be able to offer a more wide-ranging look at Trump’s actions leading up to Jan. 6. Cipollone pushed back against another plan by Trump campaign attorneys to seize voting machines. He also had concerns about the legality of Trump’s plans to march to the Capitol on Jan. 6, according to testimony from White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson before the House Select Committee investigating the attack.
Kenneth Klukowski, a former deputy to Clark, is also reportedly cooperating with the DOJ investigation.
In his lengthy statement, Trump railed against the search, comparing it to Watergate.
“Here, in reverse, Democrats broke into the home of the 45th President of the United States,” he wrote.
The White House said late Monday they “did not have notice of the reported action.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland in recent weeks appeared to be more responsive to criticism that DOJ’s probe was lagging that of those by House investigators but has consistently denied the presence of any political motivations within the Jan. 6 investigation.
“We pursue justice without fear or favor,” Garland said in an interview with NBC News late last month. “We intend to hold everyone, anyone who was criminally responsible for the events surrounding Jan. 6 or any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another accountable. That’s what we do.”
“It is inevitable in this kind of investigation that there’ll be speculation about what we are doing, who we are investigating, what our theories are,” he added. “The reason there is this speculation and uncertainty is that it’s a fundamental tenet of what we do as prosecutors and investigators is to do it outside of the public eye.”
#us politics#news#fbi#department of justice#mar a lago#donald trump#2022#fbi raid#the new york times#national archives and records administration#john eastman#jeffrey clark#mike pence#pat cipollone#Patrick Philbin#Cassidy Hutchinson#house select committee#capitol riot investigation#merrick garland#ag merrick garland#biden administration
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The charges are for lying to Georgia officials in the attempt to steal the election in that state.
Clark is reported to be a likely pick for attorney general if Trump wins a second term. Trump only hires the best people, don’t you know.
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