BOMBSHELL: "If It Was Anybody Else, We'd Arrest Him Tomorrow" - FBI Expert on Trump revealed
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as posted by the channelPulitzer Prize-winning journalists Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis reveal explosive new details from their book "Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department."
Key Revelations:
đ¨ The "Arrest Him Tomorrow" Moment: After the Mar-a-Lago raid on August 8, 2022, FBI agents recovered highly classified documentsâsome so sensitive that even national security experts with top clearances couldn't view them. That night, Assistant Attorney General Matt Olson asked his team: "What do we do now?" Julie Edelstein, an encyclopedic expert on mishandling classified records, responded: "If it was anybody else, we'd arrest him tomorrow."
đ The Documents Case: Prosecutors called it a "slam dunk" caseâevidence was on surveillance tape, texts, and in FBI vans. Yet Trump received special deference as a former president.
â¸ď¸ The 60-Day Freeze: Attorney General Merrick Garland demanded investigators freeze the classified documents investigation for two months before the 2022 midtermsâeven though Trump wasn't on the ballot. This shocked people inside DOJ.
âď¸ The Judge Cannon Problem: Prosecutor David Raskin warned that Judge Aileen Cannon was "an existential threat to the case." When the case was assigned to her, one attorney said: "We're screwed."
Plus: Why DOJ didn't know about Cassidy Hutchinson until her public testimony, and how the January 6 Committee was ahead of federal investigators.
This one is a keeper. And an unbelievably inside look into what went wrong in the DoJ after January 6th and the Trump secret documents case.
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