In late 2022, when asked by reporters about the probability that former President Trump would run for a second term, President Biden pledged to make sure “he does not become president again.” This was largely ignored at the time because Trump had not yet been bombarded with the brazenly partisan prosecutions that he is now fending off. In hindsight, it is clear that Biden was referring to a carefully planned lawfare campaign coordinated by the White House. His administration’s fingerprints are all over every prosecution from the first indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to the recent attempt to remove Trump from the Colorado primary ballot.
Trump is no Cicero, but everyone should listen when he tells us, “They’re after you, I’m just in the way.”
The Colorado ballot case provides the clearest White House connection. As The American Spectator noted last year, the initial lawsuit was filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) in September of last year. Noah Bookbinder, CREW’s President, was appointed to an advisory council in March of 2022 by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and his name appears on White House visitor logs multiple times in 2023, according to a recent Daily Caller report. CREW convinced the Colorado Supreme Court to disqualify Trump from appearing on the Centennial State’s primary ballot, but the U.S. Supreme Court has now agreed to hear Trump’s appeal. Bookbinder responded as follows:
Donald Trump is disqualified from holding office under the 14th Amendment after he incited the January 6th insurrection following his loss in the 2020 election. The Supreme Court of Colorado came to the right conclusion in favor of our clients, and the U.S. Supreme Court must now uphold it. In defending this decision, we are working to defend American democracy. We believe in the rule of law and have faith in the judicial system. The Supreme Court should take up this case quickly to ensure that Colorado Republican primary voters like our client—and all Americans—have confidence in the eligibility of the people on their ballots.
Noah Bookbinder is by no means the only Trump antagonist who appears multiple times on the White House visitor logs. New York Attorney General Letitia James appears on the logs at least three times. This fact was mentioned by former President Trump, who suggested that there had been coordination between the Biden administration and the New York AG concerning the bizarre “fraud” charges for which she prosecuted Trump. The Associated Press dismissed any possibility of collaboration as “unsubstantiated,” yet confirmed that James is indeed on the visitor logs for the following dates: 4/8/2022, 7/18/2023 and 8/31/2023. The AP uncritically accepted the White House assertion that the visits were ceremonial. (READ MORE from David Catron: The Democrats Can’t Disgorge Biden)
They were likely as innocuous as meetings Nathan Wade, a prosecutor working for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, had with White House Counsel before Willis filed RICO charges against Trump. One of the latter’s co-defendants, Michael Roman, has filed a Motion to Dismiss containing evidence that Wade invoiced Fulton County for a May 23, 2022 meeting described thus: “Travel to Athens; Conf with White House Counsel.” He also invoiced the county for a November 18, 2022 meeting with this description: “Interview with DC/White House.” This has drawn the attention of House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who has demanded documents from Wade, including the following:
All documents and communications in your possession between or among the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, including yourself, and the U.S. Department of Justice and its components, including but not limited to Special Counsel Jack Smith, referring or relating to the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office’s investigation of President Trump.
All documents and communications in your possession between or among the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, including yourself, and the Executive Office of the President, including but not limited to the White House Counsel’s Office, referring or relating to the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office’s investigation of President Trump.
All notes, memoranda, documents, or other material in your possession referring or relating to your meetings, conferences, phone calls, or other interactions with the U.S. Department of Justice, the Executive Office of the President, or the partisan January 6 Select Committee.
This brings us back to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the first DA to indict a former president in U.S. History. Bragg, you will recall, initially decided not to pursue an indictment because the case was so weak he could very well lose. Then, after Matthew Colangelo from the Biden Justice Department took a position in the Manhattan DA’s office, Bragg had a sudden epiphany and decided to indict Trump. The primary charge involves a $130,000 hush-money payment that then-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen made to an adult film star with his own money. As Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz put it, “In 60 years of practicing criminal law, I have never seen a worse abuse of prosecutorial discretion.” (READ MORE: Trump Ballot Bans and the Specter of Bush v. Gore)
Sadly, abuse of such discretion is the hallmark of the Biden administration, and it isn’t limited to Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, Letitia James or Noah Bookbinder. Nor are its targets limited to Trump. Biden’s Attorney General, Merrick Garland, has used the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot as a pretext for a three-year reign of terror that has ruined the lives of who knows how many ordinary Americans — some of whom never entered the “People’s House.” Meanwhile, the President’s son publicly flouts a subpoena issued by that same body. Who believes Hunter Biden will be prosecuted by Garland’s DOJ for contempt of Congress? Trump is no Cicero, but everyone should listen when he tells us, “They’re after you, I’m just in the way.”
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