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President Trump Vindicated [Weekly Update]
Judicial Watch ^ | April 19, 2019 | Tom Fitton

Posted on 04/20/2019 9:52:00 AM PDT by jazusamo

Vindication for President Trump
What Was the FBI Telling and Paying Anti-Trump Dossier Author Steele?
Judicial Watch Sues for Collusion Docs Between Obama FBI and Clinton-DNC Lawyers
Good News for all Land Owners from the Supreme Court
Digging Into John Kerry’s ‘Shadow Diplomacy’ Over Iran Nuclear Deal
Happy Easter!


Vindication for President Trump

President Trump has been vindicated. The Mueller investigation failed to find any evidence to support the big lie that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government and failed miserably to prove any obstruction.

We’re pleased that Attorney General Barr saw through the 448-page smear of President Trump by highlighting the simple conclusion that there is no collusion and no obstruction. Neither Mueller, the Obama FBI, DOJ, CIA, State Department, nor the Deep State ever had a good-faith basis to pursue President Trump on Russia collusion. Russia collusion wasn’t just a hoax, it was criminal abuse, which is why Judicial Watch has fought and will continue to fight for Russiagate documents in federal court.

The targeting of President Trump served to protect Hillary Clinton and her enablers/co-conspirators in Obama administration from prosecution. Attorney General Barr can begin restoring the credibility of the Justice Department by finally initiating a thorough investigation of the Clinton email and related pay-to-play scandals and the abuses behind the targeting of President Trump.

We have long called for the shutdown of the Mueller special counsel operation and have pursued dozens of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits in connection with the illicit targeting and other abuses of President Trump. Judicial Watch FOIA litigation exposed, for example:

You can be sure your Judicial Watch will continue to “investigate the investigators”! We already have over 40 FOIA lawsuits on Obama/Clinton/Deep State effort to illegally spy on and overthrow President Trump. This assault on our Republic is the worst corruption scandal in American history and Judicial Watch is on it – no matter what Congress or the Justice Department does.


What Was the FBI Telling and Paying Anti-Trump Dossier Author Steele?

Judicial Watch is the leader in exposing the Deep State coup targeting President Trump.

We just filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records of communications and payments between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele and his private firm, Orbis Business Intelligence.

We sued after the FBI failed to respond to our September 27, 2018, FOIA request ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:19-cv-00572)) for some basic documents:

All records of communications between any official, employee, or representative of the FBI and Mr. Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer and the owner of the private firm Orbis Business Intelligence.

  1. All records related to the proposed, planned, or actual payment of any funds to Mr. Steele and/or Orbis Business Intelligence
  2. All records produced in preparation for, during, or pursuant to any meetings or telephonic conversations between any official, employee, or representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Mr. Christopher Steele and/or any employee or representative of Orbis Business Intelligence
  3. All records produced in preparation for, during, or pursuant to any meetings or telephonic conversations between any official, employee, or representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Mr. Christopher Steele and/or any employee or representative of Orbis Business Intelligence

The time frame for this request is March 9, 2017, to September 27, 2018.

Former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr testified to Congress that “at some point during 2017, Chris Steele did speak with somebody from the FBI, but I don’t know who.”

This is our latest FOIA lawsuit in an extensive investigation into the Clinton-funded, anti-Trump dossier and its use to obtain FISA warrants in order to spy on the Trump campaign.

In a case seeking Steele payment information between January 1, 2016, and March 8, 2017, we previously released FBI records showing that Steele was cut off as a “Confidential Human Source” in November 2016 after he disclosed his relationship to the FBI to a third party. The documents show that there were at least 11 FBI payments to Steele in 2016. (President Trump just tweeted this key disclosure by Judicial Watch!)

Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm hired by the Clinton campaign and the DNC, reportedly paid $168,000 in 2016 to Steele’s company, Orbis Business Intelligence.

In a related case, we recently released 339 pages of heavily redacted records from the DOJ revealing Bruce Ohr remained in regular contact with Steele after Steele was terminated by the FBI.

How and why did the FBI pay Christopher Steele, who was already being funded by the Clinton campaign and DNC through Fusion GPS? That we had to sue for this basic information shows the FBI may have something more to hide.


Judicial Watch Sues for Collusion Docs Between Obama FBI and Clinton-DNC Lawyers

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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Tom Fitton:

Happy Easter!

Christians around the world are celebrating the resurrection of the Christ this week. There are no more powerful symbols of hope than the cross and the empty tomb. From me and mine, I wish you and yours all the Joy of Easter! Happily, Passover coincides with Easter this year – so, Happy Passover, as well!


Until next week …

1 posted on 04/20/2019 9:52:00 AM PDT by jazusamo
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To: GOPJ; Diana in Wisconsin; ColdOne; Art in Idaho; Conservative Gato; ptsal; onyx; Tucker39; ...

Off the Wall Ping!

Contact to be added.


2 posted on 04/20/2019 9:57:06 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

1. The Supreme Court has ruled that if there is no underlying crime, the investigated cannot be accused of obstruction for having pushed back in any way.

2. Therefore, the entire report regarding obstruction should not exist.

3. The obstruction findings amount to nothing more than innuendo and uncorroborated hearsay.......and it came from a prosecutor?

4. The only possible purpose of the obstruction loose talk is to fire up a political attack.......and it came from a prosecutor?

5. From the beginning it was known that the Dept. of Justice would not indict a sitting President. So the only point of the entire investigation had to be to entrap the President’s associates in perjury traps.


3 posted on 04/20/2019 11:49:49 AM PDT by gandalftb
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To: gandalftb

Well said.

You’ve probably heard what Mark Levin had to say about this on Fox News but if not it’s worth looking at, he really rips the report. Mark starts at 40 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnhN31hOgKM


4 posted on 04/20/2019 12:03:44 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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HOORAY Tom Fitton. Good posts. Mark did tear it up. Thanks for the link.


5 posted on 04/20/2019 2:32:16 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: PGalt

Bump!


6 posted on 04/20/2019 2:41:02 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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MAGA!

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7 posted on 04/20/2019 2:41:31 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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