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The Department of Justice reveals a secret probe into a plot to bribe White House in exchange for a presidential pardon for a federal intern. It was kept secret for months before the presidential election.
President Donald J. Trump’s final weeks are marred with endless controversies.
The court records were unsealed on Tuesday in federal court.
The disclosure is in 20 pages of partially redacted documents made public by the District of Columbia District Court on Tuesday afternoon. The records show Chief Judge Beryl Howell’s review in August of a request from prosecutors to access documents obtained in a search as part of a bribery-for-pardon investigation.
The filings don’t reveal a timeline of the scheme, or names anyone that could be involved, except it does note there were communications between people including at least one lawyer were seized from an office that was raided sometime before the end of summer.
No one is publicly charged with a crime as of yet.
The White House declined to the comment on the matter. However, Trump did tweet on social media his thoughts.
Pardon investigation is Fake News!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 2, 2020
The Justice Department said there are “no government official(s) or anyone currently a subject or target of the investigation disclosing in this filing.”
According to the court records, at the end of this summer, a filter team, used to make sure prosecutors don’t received tainted evidence that should have been kept from them because it was privileged, had more than 50 digital devices including iPhones, iPads, laptops, thumb drives and computer drives after investigators raided the unidentified offices.
CNN reports that communications between attorneys and clients are typically privileged and kpet from prosecutors as they build their cases, but in this situation, Howell allowed the prosecutors access. Attorney-client communications are not protected as privileged under the law when there is discussion of a crime, among other exceptions.
“The political strategy to obtain a presidential pardon was ‘parallel’ to and distinct from [redacted]’s role as an attorney-advocated for [redacted name],” Howell wrote in her court order.
The grand jury investigation also appears to relate to unnamed people acting as unregistered “lobbyists to senior White House officials” as they sought ot secure a pardon and use an intermediary to send a bribe, the unsealed court records say.
Who’s under that redacted name?
RUDY GIULIANI
Prosecutors hadn’t provided evidence to the judge, however, of any direct payment, and instead showed evidence that a person was seeking clemency because of past and future political contributions.
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Trump had pardoned numerous figures. Alice Johnson, an African American woman who was serving a lengthy bid for drug trafficking, Joe Arpaio, the former Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff who was federally indicted on witness tampering, Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor who tried to sell the seat of then-senator Barack Obama, Roger Stone, a political ally of Trump who lied to federal officials about his contacts with Wikileaks and Michael Flynn, the former National Security Advisor who lied to the federal officials about his registered lobbying for foreign operatives and his back channel deal with former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Trump has signalled he will pardon numerous others. It was rumored that Giuliani is hoping to get a pardon as well as Steve Bannon and Paul Manafort. There are rumors that Trump may pardon his children, Donald, Jr., Ivanka and Eric Trump and maybe himself.
Joe Biden has said that the main goal is to get control of the pandemic. He said that obsessing over Trump will not dictate his governance. He said that the U.S. Department of Justice will handle any matters involving federal officials independently.
The president-elect has made it clear that if we keep giving Trump oxygen, it will suck the life out of us.
I will be honest with you, I am ready to turn the page on Trump. He wants to be the center of attention even in defeat. If he thinks of running in 2024, that will be focused on him and not Biden.
We can’t allow it.
We have seen four years of a reality television show. It’s time to cancel it.
Let’s get back to normal.
Trump will face a litentanty of problems once he’s out of the White House.
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