Former Chief Of Staff Implicates Trump In Massive Criminal Activity

During recent testimony for a lawsuit that was given under oath, former chief of staff to Donald Trump John Kelly implicated his former boss in some fairly massive criminal activity. The former Chief of Staff said that Donald Trump instructed his staff to use the IRS and the Department of Justice to investigate his political enemies, including FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page (along with Hillary Clinton, James Comey, and even Jeff Bezos.) This is explicitly illegal, thanks to a law passed after Richard Nixon's resignation, and could lead to further investigations. Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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So what was revealed just a couple days ago that John Kelly, Donald Trump's former chief of staff, implicated Donald Trump in some very serious criminal activity from his time in the White House. And this is criminal activity that had been alluded to in the past, mostly by people like John Kelly, but had never been so explicitly stated. And of course, it's not something that Trump is under investigation for the accusations that John Kelly made, which for the record, he made under oath, under penalty of perjury as part of a lawsuit filed by Peter Str. But the allegations are that Donald Trump wanted to use the i r s and the Department of Justice to attack his political enemies while he was president of the United States. Now, Peter Strzok, who was an FBI official that was leading the investigation into Trump's Russia connections, uh, along with Lisa Page. But Peter Strzok is the one who is suing Donald Trump right now, essentially for making his life a living hell, because Trump has repeatedly, for many years now attacked Peter Strzok and Lisa Page for, you know, being the lovers, as he calls them on social media.

But John Kelly was called in as a witness to talk about Donald Trump's attacks on the two. And that's when Kelly said, oh, yeah, things were so bad that Donald Trump actually wanted to use the IRS to investigate them, you know, to find out if they're out there committing tax fraud, which would make zero sense. But, you know, if you're the kind of person who yourself commits tax fraud, I can see why you would think everybody else does too, which is why the threat of an IRS audit would be pretty significant. But that's what Trump wanted to do, according to John Kelly, and thanks to a law passed by Congress shortly after Richard Nixon resigned, it is illegal for the President of the United States to direct any government agencies to carry out an investigation of certain individuals. It's illegal. It is spelled out in the law because Nixon basically made us have to do that. And John Kelly under oath said Trump did it. Now, technically, we do not know if these investigations ever happened, but John Kelly went a step further. He said, oh, by the way, it wasn't just Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, he also wanted investigations into Hillary Clinton. He wanted us to do investigations into James Comey. Oh. And he also threw in Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, you know, for good measure, because Bezos owns the Washington Post, and Trump didn't like the Washington Post, so he wanted the IRS to go after Jeff Bezos as well. All of this is

Illegal activity. Whether or not the investigations were carried out becomes irrelevant. The only thing that actually matters is that Donald Trump made the suggestion to people who had the authority to do it. That's the illegal part. A hundred percent like case closed. We don't need that much of an investigation. And unfortunately at this point, we do not have an investigation into this. And, and, and I, I think we need one. I mean, when you have your former chief of staff, the guy that was by your side every single day saying under oath that the former president broke the law, kind of sounds like the thing that maybe we need to get the Department of Justice on right about now, right? I mean, I know the DOJs got their hands full investigating all of the other horrible things that Trump has done. You got your Manhattan investigators, your New York state investigators, your Georgia investigators, everybody's looking into Trump. But this also kind of seems like something that we need to put out there as well. I, I know it's a lot. I know they're very busy, but if Donald Trump did do what John Kelly said, this might be one of the more serious crimes that he could have committed. And I think that at least is worth one or two investigators at the D O J maybe looking into a little bit.