Trump Slams Bret Baier for Criticism Over Presidential Records at Mar-a-Lago

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Trump Slams Bret Baier for Criticism Over Presidential Records at Mar-a-Lago

(Corine Gatti, Headline USA) President Donald Trump sparred with Fox News anchor Bret Baier for storing presidential records at his Mar-a-Lago home in a recent contentious one-on-one interview.

Baier questioned Trump about him allegedly possessing a classified document detailing a U.S. military attack plan on another country.

“You were quoted on the recording saying, ‘The document was secret,’ adding that you could’ve declassified it while you were president, but ‘now I can’t. You know this is still secret, highly confidential.’ You say on tape that you can’t declassify it, so why have it?” Baier questioned.

Trump responded that when he said he couldn’t declassify certain information, it was because there was no specific document. Instead, there were “many articles and stories in various media about Iran and other topics.” Therefore, there was nothing to declassify as it wasn’t a formal document, he said.

The topic of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the storage of presidential records at Trump’s estate entered the heated conversation.

The revocation of Trump’s executive privilege by Biden created an opportunity for the former president to be subpoenaed. The DOJ charged Trump with 37 federal crimes, including the deliberate retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements. The preliminary court date is set for Aug. 14, Fox News Digital noted.

Baier also pressed Trump on the DOJ’s investigation into whether he mishandled classified documents after leaving office in January 2021. The National Archives went after Trump a year later about the boxes of records stored at Mar-a-Lago.

“The only way NARA could ever get this stuff back would be to say please, please, please could we have it back,” Trump said.

“They did ask for it,” Baier snapped back. “Why not just hand them over then?”

“Because I had boxes. I want to go through the boxes and get my personal things out. I don’t want to hand that over to NARA yet,” Trump said. “And I very was busy as you’ve sort of seen,” Trump shot back.

“I have every right to have those boxes,” he added.

Washington Post Hints at Impending Trump Indictment over 2020 Election

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Washington Post Hints at Impending Trump Indictment over 2020 Election

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Washington Post published a tell-all story Monday about the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest and alleged 2020 election interference—strongly suggesting that Donald Trump will be indicted over these matters in the near future.

Indeed, the punchline of the Post’s roughly 7,000-word story came at the last paragraph, when the publication revealed that two pro-Trump state officials from Nevada appeared in front of a grand jury investigating J6 last Tuesday—the same day Trump pled not guilty in his classified documents case.

The Post suggested that the officials’ grand jury appearance was related to Trump’s plan to use alternate electors to challenge the results of controversial results in Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona.

“Michael McDonald and Jim DeGraffenreid, the chairman and vice chairman of the Nevada Republican Party who had signed a document claiming to be electors for Trump, entered the area of the D.C. federal courthouse where a grand jury has been meeting on cases related to Jan. 6,” the Post reported.

Most of the Post’s story is focused on explaining why DOJ officials were supposedly reticent about charging a former president. According to the article, the DOJ declined to investigate Trump’s alleged election interference in February 2021, and the FBI did not open an investigation of the electors scheme until April 2022.

“The Justice Department’s painstaking approach to investigating Trump can be traced to Garland’s desire to turn the page from missteps, bruising attacks and allegations of partisanship in the department’s recent investigations of both Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server,” the Post reported.

However, conservative observers pointed to a more likely culprit to why the Trump investigations only started in earnest about a year ago: because that’s when the DOJ was finally staffed with Biden toadies.

“The Biden DOJ and its allies spent years pushing the FBI to go along with it. The FBI did not join that probe until April 2022,” noted journalist Daniel Greenfield.

Greenfield focused on a paragraph of the Post’s article, which said the decision to charge the Oath Keepers with seditious conspiracy “was slowed as the Biden Justice Department waited months for Senate confirmation of senior leaders.”

In other words, “The Biden DOJ needed more political operatives on board to further weaponize the Justice Department and the FBI against its political opponents,” Greenfield said.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Prosecutors Plan to Use Trump’s Words against Him in Documents Case

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Prosecutors Plan to Use Trump’s Words against Him in Documents Case

(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) Federal prosecutors plan to use former President Donald Trump’s comments about former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton against him in a case alleging he illegally kept classified documents.

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team of prosecutors must prove Trump’s actions were willful as opposed to careless.

Prosecutors allege he kept sensitive military documents, shared them with people who didn’t have security clearance and tried to evade the government’s efforts to get them back.

Trump talked about classified documents often during the 2016 presidential election campaign against Clinton when Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state was a point of controversy.

“In my administration I’m going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information,” Trump said on Aug. 18, 2016. “No one will be above the law.”

On Sept. 6, 2016, Trump said: “We can’t have someone in the Oval Office who doesn’t understand the meaning of the word confidential or classified.”

The next day he said: “One of the first things we must do is enforce all classification rules and to enforce all laws relating to the handling of classified information.”

And five days before the 2016 election, Trump said: “Service members here in North Carolina have risked their lives to acquire classified intelligence to protect our country.”

Prosecutors included five public statements from Trump on classified documents in the 49-page indictment. They also noted a July 26, 2018, statement Trump made while president.

“More broadly, the issue of Mr. Brennan’s security clearance raises larger questions about the practice of former officials maintaining access to our Nation’s most sensitive secrets long after their time in Government has ended,” Trump said after he decided to revoke the security clearance of John Brennan, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

“Such access is particularly inappropriate when former officials have transitioned into highly partisan positions and seek to use real or perceived access to sensitive information to validate their political attacks,” he continued. “Any access granted to our Nation’s secrets should be in furtherance of national, not personal, interests.”

In 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation determined that Clinton and her colleagues “were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”

“Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case,” then-FBI Director James Comey said in July 2016. “Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent.”

Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 counts that allege he kept sensitive military documents, shared them with people who didn’t have security clearance, and tried to get around the government’s efforts to get them back.

He is charged with 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information along with conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record, corruptly concealing a document or record, concealing a document in a federal investigation, scheme to conceal and false statements and representations.

The indictment laid out the charges against Trump and Nauta. Trump was charged with keeping classified documents after leaving office and later obstructing the government’s efforts to get them back. The indictment contains specific dates and times with to-the-minute details of where the documents were stored, where they were moved, and who was involved.

Among the records were 197 that contained classified markings, including 98 marked “secret” and 30 marked “top secret.” The “top secret” designation means that unauthorized disclosure “reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage” to national security,” according to the indictment.

Trump turned those records over to the National Archives and Records Administration on Jan. 17, 2022, in response to demands from that federal agency.

On June 3, 2022, an attorney for Trump provided the Federal Bureau of Investigation with 38 additional documents with classified markings. And during a raid of Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, 2022, the FBI recovered 102 additional documents with classified markings.

While the U.S. Secret Service provided security to Trump while he was at his Palm Beach property, Trump never told the agency that classified documents were stored there, according to the indictment.

Mar-a-Lago hosted 150 social events – such as weddings, fundraisers and movie premieres for tens of thousands of guests from January 2021, when Trump left office, through the FBI raid on Aug. 8, 2022. Mar-a-Lago had about 150 employees during that time, prosecutors said in the indictment.

Prosecutors allege the documents belong to some of the nation’s most secret agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, the National Security Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, the Department of Energy and the Department of State.

The documents contained information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of the United States and other allied nations, U.S. nuclear programs, plans for possible retaliation in case of an attack and potential U.S. vulnerabilities, according to the indictment.

Trump stored the boxes in several locations at Mar-a-Lago, his social club with 25 guest rooms in Palm Beach. The boxes that contained classified documents were stored in a ballroom, a bathroom and shower, an office space, his bedroom and a storage room, prosecutors alleged in the indictment.

The club was not authorized to store classified documents.

Prosecutors further alleged that Trump showed classified documents to people not authorized to see such records. In one case on July 21, 2021, at the Bedminster Club in New Jersey, Trump allegedly showed a writer, a publisher and two staff members classified documents. During the recorded interview, Trump said that the documents were “highly classified” and that could have declassified them while president, but could no longer do so after leaving office, according to the indictment. In August or September 2021, prosecutors allege Trump showed a representative of his political action committee a classified map of a country.

In April, Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts in New York related to charges he paid hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels through a lawyer before the 2016 presidential election and covered it up as a legal expense before being elected president.

Trump Maintains Lead over Biden in Post-Indictment Polling Average

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Trump Maintains Lead over Biden in Post-Indictment Polling Average

(Casey Harper, The Center Square) Former President Donald Trump has a slight lead against President Joe Biden in national polling even after being charged with 37 criminal counts in an indictment related to his handling of classified documents,

Real Clear Politics’s polling average has Trump ahead of Biden by 2.4 points in a general election matchup, showing that the federal indictment against Trump has so far not sunk his chances to return to the White House. In fact, it may have bolstered them.

A Harvard CAPS Harris poll released over the weekend showed Trump winning in a head to head matchup against Biden by six points, 45% to 39%. The same poll found Trump would beat Vice President Kamala Harris by seven points.

Quinnipiac released a poll last week showing Biden leading Trump by four points, 48% to 44%.

“In Quinnipiac University’s previous national poll on May 24th, Biden received 48 percent and Trump received 46 percent,” the group said. “Today’s results continue a string of close head-to-head results between Biden and Trump since Quinnipiac University started asking this question in February 2023.”

The figures from these polls are close enough to be considered a statistical tie with over a year until election day, but they demonstrate that so far the indictment has not hindered Trump’s campaign.

Trump touted his poll numbers recently, saying his fundraising has spiked since the indictment.

“REALLY BIG FUNDRAISING, EVEN GREATER POLLS, SINCE THE RADICAL LEFT INDICTMENT HOAX WAS INITIATED BY THE MISFITS, MUTANTS, MARXISTS, & COMMUNISTS! THANK YOU !!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Trump has also increased his lead since the indictment over his closest rival in the Republican primary, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, continuing a trend in recent weeks. Trump was also boosted in the eyes of Republicans after the FBI raided his Florida residence last year.

According to polling averaging from FiveThirtyEight, Trump has 53.5% support in the Republican race, with DeSantis in second at 21%. That is a significant shift since the beginning of March, when Trump had 46% support and DeSantis had 30% support.

Notably, RCP’s average has DeSantis beating Biden in a matchup by 1.3 points.

The failure of the indictment to sink Trump may come in part because Biden faces his own corruption allegations with evidence mounting that Biden and his family benefited from millions of dollars in payments made from Chinese and Ukrainian entities.

Earlier this month, House Republicans said they obtained an FBI document showing Biden himself as well as his son Hunter were allegedly paid $5 million each by an executive at the Ukrainian energy company Burisma to stop a corruption investigation.

Biden has repeatedly dismissed media inquiries about these allegations, recently calling them “malarkey.”

In addition, a plurality of Americans say Trump’s indictment is “politically motivated.”

A recent ABC/Ipsos poll found that 47% of those surveyed say the federal charges against Trump are “politically motivated” compared to 37% who do not while the rest are unsure.

“These views are mainly driven by Republicans, while Democrats want to see Trump charged and to suspend his campaign,” Ipsos said. “Interestingly, independents are split, with roughly half agreeing with all three sentiments.”

YouTube Vax Cabal Censors RFK Jr.’s Explosive Interview w/ Jordan Peterson

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YouTube Vax Cabal Censors RFK Jr.’s Explosive Interview w/ Jordan Peterson

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Already intimately familiar with social media censorship and vax fanaticism cancel culture, Democrat presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was once again targeted and, in compliance with regime dictums, sanitized for his views on vaccines.

Google-owned YouTube on Monday yanked Jordan Peterson’s compelling interview with Kennedy, during which he claimed that chemicals in the country’s water supply were leading to “sexual dysphoria” and turning kids trans.

YouTube claimed that the interview, and Kennedy’s assertions, violated the tech giant’s guidelines about sharing so-called vaccine misinformation.

“We removed a video from the Jordan Peterson channel for violating YouTube’s general vaccine misinformation policy, which prohibits content that alleges that vaccines cause chronic side effects, outside of rare side effects that are recognized by health authorities,” a YouTube spokesperson gaslighted Monday.

Kennedy, who was previously censored by Instagram for his vax views, lashed back at YouTube for blacking out alternative and legitimate views on vaccines, while muzzling a presidential contender.

“What do you think … Should social media platforms censor presidential candidates?” Kennedy tweeted. “My conversation with @JordanBPeterson was deleted by @YouTube. Luckily you can watch it here on @Twitter (thank you @elonmusk).”

A growing number of social media users appeared anxious to act on Kennedy’s prompt, and calls grew for a boycott of YouTube, via platform shifting.

“Very bad on part of YouTube,” tweeted one frustrated user. “Alternatives? Rumble? Any others?” asked another. “Truth Social,” offered a reply.

“Outrage is not enough,” one commentator urged. “Cancel subscriptions.”

During an interview on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, tagged “Rekindling the Spirit of the Classic Democrat,” Kennedy referenced a study into the effects of the common herbicide atrazine and its documented links to sexual dysphoria and chemicals has been documented in other species, and suggested the same was possible for today’s youth.

“They’re swimming through a soup of toxic chemicals today,” Kennedy argued. “If you put atrazine in a tank with frogs, it will chemically castrate and forcibly feminize the frogs in there. The male frogs will turn into fully viable females capable of producing viable eggs. If it’s doing that to frogs, there’s a lot of evidence that it’s doing it to human beings as well.”

Kennedy’s campaign told Fox News Digital that the presidential contender “does not believe the attacks are coordinated,” in relation to YouTube pulling the video and other censorship crackdowns on Kennedy. “People are simply speaking out according to what they believe,” a Kennedy spokesperson said. “These beliefs are the result of the long influence of corporate money in medicine, research, media and government.”

Peterson ripped YouTube for pulling the interview, not only as a means to control the vax narrative, but also for more nefarious reasons, tweeting that “YouTube has taken upon itself to actively interfere with a presidential election campaign.”

Fetterman’s Juneteenth Celebration Marred by His Racist, Shotgun-Toting Past

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Fetterman’s Juneteenth Celebration Marred by His Racist, Shotgun-Toting Past

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) The on-again/off-again clinically depressed, psychedelic ‘shroom dropping Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., received an embarrassing trip down memory lane when he posted a Tweet celebrating Juneteenth.

“Happy Juneteenth! Today we celebrate emancipation + reflect on the long shadow of systemic racism in America,” Fetterman wrote. “PA always stands by the unshakeable truth that Black families matter + Black lives matter.”

Except, critics were quick to remind, when an unhinged, white, Lurch-like politician pulls a shotgun on and chases down an unarmed black jogger.

“Senator, why don’t you tell that story about that time you chased a black jogger and held a shotgun on him because you thought he was a criminal?” tweeted Tim Murtaugh, Washington Times columnist and former Trump 2020 comms director.

That unfortunate incident unfolded when Fetterman was mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, and he claimed his actions were meant to ensure public safety.

“It was a decision I made in a split second to protect the community as the chief law enforcement officer,” he said, adding later, “It’s not something that I would repeat, simply because right now I’m not in that kind of a role,” Fox News reported of the incident.

While he’s no longer “in that kind of role” where he felt free using a shotgun to chase an unarmed black jogger, he is currently a sitting U.S. senator and the backlash to his Juneteenth tweet was swift and brutal.

Fetterman ultimately received a Big D-shield pass for his transgression, along with accusations that the Democrat was also the benefactor of “white privilege,” recalled the New York Post.

“He was a white man with a gun chasing a black man,” Fawn Walker-Montgomery, a former city council member of a jurisdiction near Braddock, told NBC News last April. “I used to be on the council in McKeesport, and if I chased after a person with a gun, I would still be in jail. He’s showing he’s not aware of his white privilege.”

The hits gained renewed vigor Monday, after Fetterman’s misguided tweet.

“Is that what you told the unarmed black teen you held at gun point because he looked suspicious?” asked one commentator, while another cracked, “You chased down a black jogger and pointed a shotgun at him. It’s not your fault you don’t remember it, but your wife and staff do, and they should delete this tweet.”

Steve Guest, a former comms advisor for Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, kept his reply short and brutally effective.

Fetterman’s roundly-ridiculed post came on the heels of his disastrous train-wreck press conference over the weekend with President Joe Biden, in response to a bridge collapse in Philadelphia.

“Why are Dems so interested in abusing unwell people for political gain?” lamented one reply to Fetterman’s Juneteenth misfire. “Can’t this guy be recalled? Shame on Pennsylvania,” read another.

“Please step down,” implored one observer. ‘You’re not well, man.”

Ex-Prosecutor’s Epic Smackdown Debunks Claims in Biden’s Trump Prosecution

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Ex-Prosecutor’s Epic Smackdown Debunks Claims in Biden’s Trump Prosecution

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) In a recent article published by The Federalist, former federal prosecutor Will Scharf, known for his work on Supreme Court confirmations, sheds light on several critical issues surrounding the indictment brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith against former President Donald Trump.

The first issue Scharf addressed is the interplay between the Espionage Act and the Presidential Records Act. He highlighted the argument that Trump’s authority to retain personal records, as well as personal records, could complicate the Biden administration-led case against Trump under the Espionage Act.

Scharf questioned whether Trump knowingly withheld National Defense Information (NDI) if he considered the documents as personal records. “Based on the documents I’ve read and his actions I’ve read about, I believe Trump viewed his ‘boxes’ as his personal records under the PRA,” Scharf said. “There are statements he made, quoted in the indictment, that support that view.”

Scharf also emphasized that classification does not automatically make something NDI under the Espionage Act. “To put it simply, not everything classified constitutes NDI. This case revolves around actual legal standards and statutory language, not a bunch of scary-looking all-caps acronyms,” he stated, later saying that if Trump had asked the Navy’s lunch menu, the answer could have come back “with a classification marker on it.”

Drawing attention to allegations of misconduct by the DOJ, Scharf highlighted the allegations made by Trump aide Walt Nauta’s lawyer, Stanley Woodward. Woodward accused a DOJ attorney of offering favors to Nauta if they volunteered damning information against Trump.

“Watch this issue as the case against Trump and Nauta begins to move. We will all hear more about it, I am sure,” Scharf said of the legacy media’s failure to report on that fact. 

Another issue raised by Scharf involved the highly reported fact that the Biden DOJ violated Trump’s attorney-client privilege. He noted that a large part of the indictment relies on information abruptly obtained from Evan Corcoran, one of Trump’s attorneys. 

“They pierced attorney-client privilege using obstruction as the predicate crime for the crime-fraud exception, saying that Trump’s conversations with Corcoran amounted to him attempting to enlist Corcoran in a criminal obstruction scheme,” Scharf said, implying that the conversations between Trump and his attorney “sound a lot more like honest attorney-client communications than they do crime fraud.” 

Scharf’s analysis underscores the complex legal issues surrounding the indictment against Trump. As the case progresses, these concerns are expected to play a significant role in shaping the public’s perception and understanding of the charges brought against the former president.

The former federal prosecutor concluded by calling out the DOJ’s timing of the case. “Why Now,” asked Scharf. “They know Trump is the leading candidate for president. They know he is beating Biden in the polls. They must know how bad it looks for a sitting president’s DOJ to indict that president’s primary political opponent,” Scharf concluded.

Real Scharf’s full smack down of the DOJ’s case against Trump here.

Lincoln Project Donor Arrested for Igniting Fire Dems Blamed on Climate Change

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Lincoln Project Donor Arrested for Igniting Fire Dems Blamed on Climate Change

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Prosecutors in Arizona have arrested Edward Fredick Wackerman, a donor to the Democratic Party and Lincoln Project, for allegedly igniting what law enforcement officials called a “ginormous inferno.”

High-profile Democratic officials, without evidence, blamed climate change for the fire, which occurred in Yosemite National Park in July 2022. According to The Washington Free Beacon, the fire quickly spread over 30 square miles, engulfing several areas and resulting in the destruction of 127 homes, 66 outbuildings, and injures to several firefighters.

“Ed Wackerman is facing several felony charges, including aggravated arson,” said Walter Wall, the Maricopa County District Attorney of the charges. “These charges carry serious legal consequences and the District Attorney is committed to ensuring a fair trial and upholding justice.”

The Maricopa DA declined to provide details on how the Democrat ignited the fire. “Currently, the investigation is under review by our office,” Wall added. “Due to the sensitive nature of the case and the rights of the defendant, we cannot disclose anything other than what has been released in the Cal Fire press release.”

Wackerman’s alleged arson led to the evacuation of approximately 6,000 individuals. According to records from the Federal Election Commission, Wackerman is an avid supporter of the Democratic Party, having donated $1,775 to Democratic candidates since 2020. The Free Beacon first reported Wackerman’s connections to Democrats.

The accused Democrat gave $1,000 to Tim Ryan’s unsuccessful senatorial campaign and blessed the infamous Lincoln Project with a $400 check.

Democrats and climate change alarmists seized upon the alarming fire as evidence of global warming. But an investigation led to Wackerman’s arrest on Friday. He now faces charges of aggravated arson. 

In July 2022, Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., took to Twitter to use the fire as evidence to demand action against climate change. “Worsening drought and severe weather will only continue to put lives and property at risk from wildfire if we don’t take climate action NOW,” an alarmist Padilla claimed.

Echoing Padilla, former Vice President Al Gore said, “More people will be killed and the survival of our civilization is at stake.”

DA Bragg Colluded w/ Biden White House, DOJ about Trump Charges: Lawsuits Allege

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DA Bragg Colluded w/ Biden White House, DOJ about Trump Charges: Lawsuits Allege

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Alvin Bragg, the embattled Manhattan District Attorney, has been hit with two lawsuits over allegations that this office is deliberately withholding potential correspondence with the DOJ, the White House and a far-left Democrat regarding his charges against former President Donald Trump.

One of the damning lawsuits, filed by The Heritage Foundation, alleges that Bragg and his office colluded with various groups, including Rep. Daniel Goldman, D-N.Y., to prosecute Trump on dubious charges of falsifying business records in relation to hush payments.

According to the lawsuit, Bragg’s office has refused to comply with the requests. “Regrettably, these questions have not been met with answers,” the lawsuit filing alleges, as reported by Fox News. “These reports have raised concerns in many circles based in large part upon the longstanding history of President Trump’s political opponents coordinating their activities to systematically weaponize the criminal justice system against him and thereby pervert the course of Justice.”

The second lawsuit, also filed by Heritage, accuses Bragg of receiving pro-bono services from law firms that prosecute white-collar crimes. Heritage argues that documents associated with the law firm should be subject to New York Freedom of Information Law, the state’s open records law.

Mike Howell, Heritage’s director of oversight, told Fox News that Bragg coordinated with Trump’s opponents. “The fact we have to file a lawsuit against Bragg who says he can’t produce these records and says he doesn’t have the systems to do so, is proof-positive of another dual standard of justice at play in this country,” Howell said regarding Bragg’s alleged stonewalling.

Howell also torched Bragg, whom he called a “hypocrite,” for pursuing questionable charges against Trump, the leading candidate for the GOP nomination for president. “You have a weaponized actor who’s going after the former president on a loony theory about his document retention, whereas the DA can’t even keep his own documents, and it’s in violation of the information laws he is bound by,” he added in his statements.

“He’s a hypocrite. He’s wasting an exorbitant amount of New York’s taxpayer’s dollars to defend this now and delay it and obstruct it when he could’ve just turned it over,” Howell concluded.

Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 state charges in relation to the hush payments.

ACLU Defended Pedophile and Murderer

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ACLU Defended Pedophile and Murderer

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) The American Civil Liberties Union disrespected the victims of a convicted pedophile and murderer Duane Owen who was executed by the state of Florida by defending him in a tweet.

“The state of Florida never provided medically necessary gender-affirming care to Duane Owen — causing her enormous suffering and violating her right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment for the more than 30 years she was in state custody,” the ACLU claimed.

His lawyers tried to save his life by saying that he was insane, which didn’t convince the state Supreme Court, the Daily Wire reported. They also stated that Owen was a delusional schizophrenic and “transgender.” However, expert psychiatrists testified that he was not mentally ill, stating that it was an “act” to avoid the death penalty.

The news source also reported that Owen was sentenced to death for raping and stabbing a 14-year-old to death and raping a 38-year-old, who he beat to death with a hammer — both in 1984. Additionally, he attacked two other women, but they both survived.

Conservatives responded to the insane, far-left position represented in the ACLU tweet.

“If HE had been executed in a timely manner, it wouldn’t have been a problem,” actor James Woods wrote. “Then the loved ones of HIS murdered victims wouldn’t have been the ones who actually suffered for thirty years.”

Conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey agreed with Woods.

“The only injustice in Owen’s case is that it took the state 40 years to execute him.”

Gays Against Groomers also criticized ACLU for prioritizing the criminal over his victims.

“The @ACLU is very upset that a man who raped and murdered a 14-year-old girl was never given ‘gender-affirming care’ in prison before he was executed. This is not a parody. Holy f*** these people are monsters,” the organization wrote.

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