Recall. Back in the stone age of 2022, in the aftermath of the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago — during which the bureau confiscated boxes of White House documents the former president took with him when departing office — I headlined in this space:
FBI Uses Phony Photo to Try and Frame Trump
Those responsible must be held accountable.
The subject was what I called the “infamous photo published by the FBI of classified documents at Mar-a-Largo — the documents spread willy-nilly all over the floor.”
Based on my own personal knowledge of the former president, having met with him over the years both before and during his presidency, I noted:
There is no way Trump would have real-estate brochures or family photos spread around on the floor of his various offices, let alone classified documents that had been declassified. Never, say again never, in all my visits in various places was anything remotely out of place.
Which is to say that this photograph looks like a deliberate attempt to frame Trump for something he would never do in a thousand years even if he had never been president. Trump himself has insisted, “They dropped them, not me — Very deceiving.”
Now here we are, two years later, and this is the headline in the Western Journal — one of many similar headlines in the media. It speaks of “special counsel” Jack Smith, the Biden Justice Department prosecutor assigned to the case of President Joe Biden’s major election opponent:
Jack Smith’s Team Admits They Tampered with Key Evidence in Trump’s Case, Misled the Court About It
Got that?
In other words, two years after I pointed out that the photo of documents spread all over the floor in Mar-a-Lago meant that they had been deliberately mishandled by someone or someones trying to frame Trump — to convey the impression that Trump was guilty of mishandling the documents — mishandling of documents once again hits the headlines.
This time, the allegation is directly about Trump’s obsessive prosecutor, with the Western Journal article saying this:
Smith has revealed that at some point after boxes of documents were seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, the order of the documents changed, which the court did not learn about until now.
The revelation was contained in a new court filing….
The filing admitted the current order of documents in the boxes does not match scans that were made earlier….
Then came a confession of misleading the court.
“The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court,” the document said….
“Prosecutors and investigators should never tamper with or alter evidence in their possession, including the order of documents in a box, because one never knows what may become relevant or crucial to a court or jury later in a case,” Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz told [Just the News].
One of Trump’s former lawyers added:
But at a deeper level, the loss of specific document locations is a destruction of exculpatory evidence…. I went through all of the boxes at NARA and the document order was important because it was clear to us that the boxes had been untouched since leaving the White House.
Not surprisingly, a thoroughly and justifiably angered former president has quickly demanded Smith be arrested, prosecuted, and jailed.
Now move on from the issue of Smith and others before him mishandling documents and/or hiding the evidence from the court, and take a look at this headline from Fox News:
Ex-top Biden DOJ official now prosecuting Trump was once paid by DNC for ‘political consulting’
Matthew Colangelo’s move from DOJ to the NY Trump prosecution has drawn allegations of politicization
Fox reports:
The Democratic National Committee paid Trump prosecutor Matthew Colangelo thousands of dollars for “political consulting” in 2018, Fox News Digital has learned.
Colangelo delivered opening statements in the unprecedented criminal trial of former President Trump and currently serves as a top prosecutor with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Office on the case….
According to Federal Election Commission records reviewed by Fox News Digital, DNC Services Corp/Democratic National Committee paid Colangelo twice on Jan. 31, 2018. Colangelo was given two payments of $6,000, for a total of $12,000.
The “description” for the purpose of payment is labeled “Political Consulting.”
Neither the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office nor the DNC immediately responded to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Fox also reports:
At the time [of the payments], Colangelo was serving in then-New York Attorney General Eric Scheiderman’s office as the deputy attorney general for social justice, assuming the role from Bragg. Bragg, at the time, was appointed as chief deputy attorney general.
Stop right there.
Note that Colangelo had worked for Eric Schneiderman, a New York Democrat. Back long ago in this space, I had taken more than one look at Colangelo’s boss, Schneiderman. Investigating his alleged attempts to use his office to pressure members of the Trump family to make campaign contributions had me dub him here as “Shakedown Schneiderman.” (READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: The Democratic Party: The Purveyor of Anti-Semitism)
Add into all of this the fact that Juan Merchan, the judge presiding over the New York case, both is a Biden contributor and has a daughter running a political consulting firm for Democrats that, per news reports like this one, “has raised $100 million for Democrats, including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”
Not to be forgotten is that Merchan has repeatedly issued gag orders to silence Trump — the soon-to-be Republican nominee for president — on threat of jail time, effectively leading a serious election interference move.
So, what do we have here when all of this is taken together?
Whether it was messing around with boxes of classified documents back at Mar-a-Lago in 2022 (to mislead about Trump), or the brand-new revelation headlined by Western Journal — again, this one:
Jack Smith’s Team Admits They Tampered with Key Evidence in Trump’s Case, Misled the Court About It
Or whether the focus is on the Fox story that focused, surprise surprise, on Colangelo — who not only is identified as an attorney from the Trump-hating Biden DOJ now involved in the New York Trump prosecution but is also an alumnus of the team of another Trump hater, ex–New York Attorney General Schneiderman — or on Judge Merchan’s gag orders and fines…
Taken all together, what Americans are seeing is a decidedly corrupt weaponizing of the American legal system in the Biden era, all in a thug-style effort designed to shut down — and imprison! — Biden’s major opponent for the presidency. Talk about election interference!
To borrow from astronaut lingo: America, we have a problem.
When the Biden era closes, it will be time to seriously investigate and clean up the Biden Department of Justice.
And to make sure this corruption of the American legal system never happens again.
