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Trump Indictment is More Biden Abuse of Power

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Yesterday, the Biden Justice Department indicted former President
Trump. That day will go down in infamy.

The unprecedented and corrupt indictment of Trump is built on sand and
is brazen election interference. It is an indictment about nothing.
Biden’s further transforming of the FBI and Justice Department into
political enforcers in order to jail his leading political opponent
could lead to the end of our constitutional republic. The indictment
has followed years of prosecutorial misconduct, harassment, and abuse
victimizing Trump. Not only is Trump innocent but he is a crime
victim.

Joe Biden wants to distract from his own personal corruption and join
the ranks of foreign dictators by jailing and turning Trump into a
political prisoner. Congress should act immediately and do everything
possible under the law to undo this attempt to wreck our republican
form of government. Every candidate for public office should denounce
this attack on our elections.

Let’s hope the courts recognize this sham indictment for what it is
and shut it down. In the meantime, Judicial Watch will continue to
hold the Biden administration accountable for its role in the worst
corruption scandal in American history – the effort to abuse and
destroy President Trump!

DELAWARE SUPREME COURT HEARING IN BIDEN SENATE RECORDS LAWSUIT

We’ll move a step forward next week in our effort to undo the
coverup of Joe Biden’s Senate records held in secret by the
University of Delaware.

A hearing will be held in the Supreme Court of Delaware on Wednesday,
June 14, 2023, in the FOIA lawsuit we filed on behalf of the Daily
Caller News Foundation regarding the secret deal keeping President
Biden’s Senate records from being made public (_Judicial Watch, Inc.
v. University of Delaware_
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(No. N20A-07-001)).

The Supreme Court of Delaware proceeding will be available for viewing
here:
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We filed an April 30, 2020, FOIA request for:

* All records regarding the proposed release of the records
pertaining to former Vice President Joe Biden’s tenure as a Senator
that has been housed at the University of Delaware Library since 2012.
This request includes all related records of communication between the
University of Delaware and any other records created pertaining to any
meeting of the Board of Trustees during which the proposed release of
the records was discussed.
* All records of communication between any representative of the
University of Delaware and former Vice President Biden or any other
individual acting on his behalf between January 1, 2018, and the
present.

On April 30, the Daily Caller News Foundation submitted its FOIA
request to the University for:

* All agreements concerning the storage of more than 1,850 boxes of
archival records and 415 gigabytes of electronic records from Joe
Biden’s senate career from 1973 through 2009.
* Communications between the staff of the University of Delaware
Library and Joe Biden or his senatorial, vice-presidential or
political campaign staff, or for anyone representing any of those
entities between 2010 [April 30, 2020] about Joe Biden’s senate
records.
* Any logs or sign-in sheets recording any individuals who have
visited the special-collections department where records from Joe
Biden’s senate career are stored between 2010 to the date of this
request.
* All records from Joe Biden’s Senate career that have been
submitted to the University of Delaware Library.

In response to both requests, the university claimed, without
corroboration, that public funds are not used to support the Joseph R.
Biden, Jr. Senate papers.

In January 2023, we and the Daily Caller News Foundation filed an
appeal brief
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in
the Delaware Supreme Court after the Superior Court sided with the
university.

Later that same month, we asked the Supreme Court of Delaware for
limited discovery
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including,
at a minimum, deposing a university representative. The brief argued:

> Despite FOIA’s acknowledgment that “public entities, as
> instruments of government, should not have the power to decide what
> is good for the public to know,” over the multi-year course of
> this FOIA proceeding, the University’s efforts to satisfy its
> statutory burden of proof have been parceled out piecemeal, in
> minuscule increments, and only in response to court orders, entered
> after briefing by Appellants. When the shortcomings of the
> University’s effort are noted in briefing, the University calls
> “foul.” The University’s umbrage at these proceedings is
> misplaced. To date, the FOIA Coordinator’s efforts (and her
> recollections of what steps she took) remain untested by cross
> examination. Appellants have every right to challenge what they
> believe has been a lackluster effort by the University to satisfy
> its statutory burden.
While in the Senate, Biden served as chairman and ranking member of
the Foreign Relations Committee, which would have given him access to
classified records. Bob Bauer, Biden’s personal attorney, stated
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in January 2023 that classified Senate records were discovered during
a search at Biden’s Wilmington, DE, home:

> The Justice Department “took possession of materials it deemed
> within the scope of its inquiry, including six items consisting of
> documents with classification markings and surrounding materials,
> some of which were from the President's service in the Senate …”
In January 2023, Special Counsel Robert Hur
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was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate
Biden’s potential mishandling of classified documents.

“No more obfuscation. No more excuses. It’s time for the
University of Delaware to answer for its refusal to release Biden’s
Senate records,” said Michael Bastasch, editor-in-chief of the Daily
Caller News Foundation.

The sketchy secrecy on the Biden Senate records and his deal with the
University of Delaware need to end. And President Biden could end the
dispute by simply releasing the details about his Senate records. What
is Biden hiding?

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES JUSTICE FOR DETAILS ON SPECIAL COUNSEL SMITH’S
STAFF

Jack Smith just indicted President Trump but he and his Justice
Department don’t want to tell us who is working on the special
counsel team abusing Trump and other innocents!

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against Joe
Biden’s Justice Department for records disclosing the names of
staffers working in Special Counsel Smith’s office on two
investigations targeting former President Donald Trump and other
Americans (_Judicial Watch Inc. v U.S. Department of Justice_ (
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1:23-cv-01485)).

Given the overwhelming evidence of anti-Trump bias disclosed in the
Durham Report, it is urgent that Americans be able to find out who is
again investigating Trump from the Garland Justice Department and his
appointee Jack Smith. Special Prosecutor Smith isn’t above the law,
and the American people have the right to know about just who is
working on his unprecedented and politicized anti-Trump investigation.

We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after
the Justice Department rejected a December 9, 2022, FOIA request
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for staff rosters
or similar records that would identify the names of Smith’s
employees.

Justice responded on April 12, stating that records responsive to our
request have been located but are being withheld “pursuant to
Exemptions 6 and 7(A)” of FOIA:

Exemption 6 pertains to information the release of which would
constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
Exemption 7(A) pertains to records or information compiled for law
enforcement purposes, the release of which could reasonably be
expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings.

Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith
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in November to take over two investigations involving Trump, who is
running for president in 2024.

The first investigation involves Trump’s handling of classified
documents he retained at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida, residence after
leaving the White House in January 2021.

The second investigation regards Trump’s challenge of the 2020
presidential election results, which allegedly included a plan to
submit separate slates of electors to block Congress from certifying
Democrat Joe Biden’s victory.

Garland named
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Smith
to the position three days
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after Trump announced he would run for president again in 2024. Smith
previously was at the center of several controversial issues, the IRS
scandal
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among them.

This isn’t our first effort to shine some light on agency staffs.
Through FOIA, we uncovered information
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about Special Counsel’s Mueller’s budget and staff
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We also sued for and obtained records
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for the budget
of Special Counsel John Durham. We also uncovered calendar entries of
Mueller special counsel prosecutor Andrew Weissmann
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showing that he led the hiring effort for the investigation that
targeted President Trump.

In 2014, a Judicial Watch investigation
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revealed that top IRS officials had been in communication with
Smith’s then-Public Integrity Section at Justice about a plan to
launch criminal investigations into conservative tax-exempt groups.
Government officials were looking to step up a probe
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into requests for tax-exemption from organizations with conservative
sounding names like “Tea Party” and other “political sounding
names,” according to a later report by the Treasury Department’s
inspector general. Smith appears to have been a key player in this
attempt to silence conservative voices.

According to the documents we obtained, Smith directed the head of the
Justice Department’s Election Crimes Branch, Richard Pilger, to meet
with the director of the IRS’s Tax-Exempt Organizations division,
Lois Lerner. In one email we obtained, Lerner discusses an idea that
the Justice Department could build “false-statement cases” against
tax-exempt conservative groups.

We later obtained additional documents detailing a planning meeting
between Justice Department, FBI and IRS officials about possible
criminal prosecutions. Thanks to our disclosures, House investigators
discovered that the IRS improperly turned over confidential tax
records of non-profit organizations to the FBI—sparking a public
uproar and forcing the return of the records to the IRS. Read more
about the case here
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I’ll keep you apprised as events warrant on this important lawsuit.

RECORD NUMBER ON FBI TERROR WATCHLIST CAUGHT CROSSING INTO U.S. VIA
MEXICO

If you’re going to throw the border wide open, you can expect all
kinds of scoundrels to come rushing over. Our _Corruption Chronicles_
blog describes
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a very
serious class of illegals.

> While the Biden administration and its media allies highlight that
> illegal immigration has dropped considerably since the termination
> of a Trump-era restriction, a record number of suspected terrorists
> have been caught trying to enter the U.S. through Mexico. Not
> surprisingly, mainstream news reports have focused on the positive
> effect that the expiration of a COVID-related rule known as Title 42
> has had on migration. One story
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> claims encounters between federal agents and illegal aliens have
> dropped by half since the administration nixed the emergency public
> health order implemented by Trump to quickly expel migrants from the
> country. Another celebrates that the measure’s expiration has
> “brought fewer migrant arrivals than expected”
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> and quotes Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas saying
> that the number of migrants at the southwest border is “markedly
> down over what they were prior to the end of Title 42.”
>
> In the meantime, a record number of people who appear on the Federal
> Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) terror watchlist have been
> apprehended by Border Patrol agents this fiscal year. In April
> alone, the frontline Homeland Security agency caught 16 foreigners
> who appear on the nation’s Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB)
> trying to enter the country through the southern border, according
> to the latest government figures
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The
> TSDB contains thousands of records that are updated daily and shared
> with federal state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement
> as well as the intelligence community and international partners to
> “ensure that individuals with links to terrorism are appropriately
> screened,”
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> according to the FBI. The April figure is more than the total
> terrorists caught in four previous years—2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020
> combined. With more than three months till the end of the fiscal
> year, Border Patrol agents have already encountered 98 migrants that
> appear on the TSDB list.
>
> The unprecedented figures have caused incredible alarm in Congress
> and lawmakers who serve on several committees—including Homeland
> Security, Counterterrorism, Judiciary and Oversight—have launched
> investigations. Last month they fired off letters demanding answers
> from Mayorkas, who was shamefully ousted as a Bill Clinton federal
> prosecutor after orchestrating the pardon of a big-time southern
> California drug dealer. The first letter
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> warns the DHS secretary that the House Oversight, Judiciary and
> Homeland Security committees are investigating how his agency is
> handling “the elevated national security risk presented by an
> increasing number of aliens with terrorist ties illegally crossing
> the southwest border into the United States.” Since Biden began
> reversing policies deterring illegal border crossings the nation has
> faced historic levels of illegal immigration and the number of
> individuals with “derogatory information in terrorist screening
> databases illegally crossing the southwest border has also
> skyrocketed,” the lawmakers write. They are seeking documents of
> those apprehended on the southwest border with terrorist ties to
> assess the national security risk created by terrorist infiltration
> and determine if DHS handles the cases correctly.
>
> A few days later, a separate group of legislators demanded
> information on the arrest of two men—an Afghan and a
> Pakistani—on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist who crossed the
> U.S.-Mexico border in mid-May. The Afghan national was apprehended
> near San Diego, California along with a group that had just crossed
> the border illegally. The Pakistani national was arrested by federal
> agents in southeastern Arizona one day after the celebrated
> expiration of Title 42. In a letter
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> to Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray members of the House
> Homeland Security, Intelligence and Counterterrorism committees
> demand to know where the individuals are being held, what terrorist
> groups they are associated with, when DHS and the FBI became aware
> of their intentions to travel to the U.S., what was their path of
> travel and what financial support they received. “These reported
> arrests raise serious questions about the security of our Southwest
> border and the potential for terrorists to take advantage of the
> glaring vulnerabilities due to the Biden-Harris administration’s
> open-border policies,” the letter states, adding that witnesses
> warned at a recent congressional hearing that the U.S. withdraw from
> Afghanistan has left a security vacuum in the region that could
> result in further terrorist encounters at the southern border.

Until next week …







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