Happy Thanksgiving!



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Jack Smith’s Political Persecution of Donald Trump Ends

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Following a request by Special Counsel Jack Smith, a judge has dropped
the charges against President-elect Donald Trump. At last, this
egregious political persecution comes to an end. This is a good day
for the rule of law.

The political decision to seek this dismissal is forced recognition
that the American people essentially found President Trump innocent of
the political and baseless lawfare charges brought against him by the
Democratic Party machine.

The Department of Justice under Joe Biden became a Department of
Injustice as it waged lawfare against Donald Trump. Jack Smith’s
mission was never anything more than retaliation and election
interference at the highest level. The fake charges against Trump were
built on sand and about nothing. Judicial Watch and I witnessed
firsthand the corruption of Jack Smith’s operation when they forced
me to testify for hours before a grand jury over my tweets, election
and public policy battles, and what I had for lunch with President
Trump.

Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray
and all the other shady characters at Justice are no less villainous
than their puppet Smith. The FBI and Justice Department (and many
other Deep State agencies) are irredeemably corrupt. Indeed, even in
seeking dismissal, the Biden regime asks the court to keep the option
open to further persecute President Trump when he leaves office!

This unprecedented corruption and abuse of power by the Biden regime
and its party allies must now be the subject of a thorough criminal
investigation. In the meantime, Judicial Watch will continue to
investigate and sue over what has been the worst government corruption
in American history.
In my new book _Rights and Freedoms in Peril_
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I detail a long chain of abuses
officials and politicians have made against the American people and
call readers to battle for “the soul and survival of America.” The
book details how the progressive movement threatens America’s most
venerable institutions, undermining the core principles that make this
country a beacon of hope to the world.

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit
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in May
2023 after the Justice Department rejected a December 9, 2022, FOIA
request
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for
”staff rosters, phone lists, or similar records depicting all
employees hired by or detailed to the office of Special Counsel Jack
Smith.”

In February 2024 the Department of Justice asked
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a federal court to allow the agency to keep secret the names of top
staffers working in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office that is
targeting former President Donald Trump and other Americans.

In May 2024 we asked
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the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, to declare a default
judgment against District Attorney Fani Willis in Judicial Watch’s
lawsuit seeking records of communications Willis had with Special
Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee.

Before his appointment to investigate and prosecute Trump, Jack Smith
previously was at the center of several other controversial issues,
the IRS scandal
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among them.

In 2014, a Judicial Watch investigation
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revealed that top IRS officials had been in communication with Jack
Smith’s then-Public Integrity Section 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. Jack Smith appears to have
been a key player in this attempt to silence conservative voices.

You can see that the end of this chapter of terrible abuses of
President Trump is only the middle of Judicial Watch’s ongoing
investigation and accountability lawsuits over this unprecedented and
dangerous lawfare.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Each year I like to remind our supporters to recall what life was like
for the Pilgrims who arrived on these shores in December of 1620. As
the Plimoth Plantation
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describes it:

Many of the colonists fell ill. They were probably suffering from
scurvy and pneumonia caused by a lack of shelter in the cold, wet
weather. Although the Pilgrims were not starving, their sea-diet was
very high in salt, which weakened their bodies on the long journey and
during that first winter. As many as two or three people died each day
during their first two months on land. Only 52 people survived the
first year in Plymouth. When _Mayflower _left Plymouth on April 5,
1621, she was sailed back to England by only half of her crew.
Nevertheless, a year after their arrival they sat down for a feast
of thanksgiving. They had befriended and made a treaty of mutual
protection with the Pokanoket Wampanoag leader, Ousamequin, also known
as Massasoit to the Pilgrims.

In the fall of 1621, the colonists marked their first harvest with a
three-day celebration. Massasoit and 90 of his men joined the English
for feasting and entertainment. In the 1800s this famous celebration
became the basis for the story of the First Thanksgiving.It would be
easy to focus on the passing difficulties of our time, especially for
those of us who fight daily to preserve the God-given liberties that
have blessed this land since the time of the Pilgrims. But, as they
did, we must pause to reflect on all that is good and on the Source of
this goodness.

I am particularly fond of a hymn
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popularly associated
with Thanksgiving Day and often sung at family meals and religious
services on this day, having been brought to America by Dutch settlers
in New Amsterdam, now New York City. It was written by Adrianus
Valerius and is entitled “_Wilt Heden Nu Treden” (“We Gather
Together.”)_

We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing;
He chastens and hastens His will to make known.
The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing.
Sing praises to His Name; He forgets not His own.
Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining,
Ordaining, maintaining His kingdom divine;
So from the beginning the fight we were winning;
Thou, Lord, were at our side, all glory be Thine!
We all do extol Thee, Thou Leader triumphant,
And pray that Thou still our Defender will be.
Let Thy congregation escape tribulation;
Thy Name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free!
All of us at Judicial Watch wish you and yours a most blessed
Thanksgiving! I would be remiss if I also did not thank you, dear
supporter, for any and all support you’ve given Judicial Watch
throughout the year. Of course, your special support
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now for Judicial
Watch’s essential work would be most welcome.

Until next week,





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