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January 9, 2025
Lawfare

Judge Orders Fani Willis to Pay THOUSANDS in Fees.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been ordered to pay $21,578 in attorney’s fees following her office’s noncompliance with Georgia’s Open Records Act (ORA). The ruling results from a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch—a legal watchdog group—after they filed an open records request regarding Willis’s communications with the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riots. Initially, Willis’s office claimed no such records existed.

However, the court discovered that Willis had withheld key documents, including a letter she sent to the chair of the January 6 committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS). Under legal pressure, she acknowledged the documents’ existence but insisted they were exempt from disclosure, a claim the court dismissed.

Judge Robert McBurney, who issued the ruling, criticized the DA’s office, pointing out that the records request was ignored until Judicial Watch’s lawsuit. He asserted that the “Records Custodian’s own admission” highlighted this noncompliance. McBurney noted, “No one searched until prodded by civil litigation.”

In his decision, Judge McBurney revealed the extent of the violations, mandating that Willis’s office cover Judicial Watch’s legal fees. Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch’s President, criticized Willis for her actions, stating the court was correct in penalizing her and demanding the payment. He emphasized that the ultimate goal was to uncover what he described as Willis’s “political collusion” with the January 6 committee, allegedly aimed at targeting President-elect Donald J. Trump. The payment must be made by January 17, 2025.

Meanwhile, in December last year, a Georgia appeals court removed Willis from her prosecution of President-elect Trump. The appellate judges ruled that an earlier decision by a lower court to allow Willis to remain as prosecutor failed “to prevent an ongoing appearance of impropriety.”

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been ordered to pay $21,578 in attorney’s fees following her office's noncompliance with Georgia’s Open Records Act (ORA). The ruling results from a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch—a legal watchdog group—after they filed an open records request regarding Willis's communications with the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riots. Initially, Willis's office claimed no such records existed. show more
December 13, 2024
William Upton
Lawfare
Politics

J6 Committee Chairman Wants Biden Pardon 👀

Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-MS), former chair of the House Democrats’ January 6 Committee, says he will accept a pardon from President Joe Biden if it is offered. Thompson made the admission while speaking with CNN’s Jim Acosta on Thursday.

“Congressman, apparently, the White House is discussing preemptive pardons for people who may be targeted by Trump when he gets back in office. Do you want the president to offer some kind of pardon to you?” pressed Acosta, with Thompson responding: “Well, you know, the president, it’s his prerogative. If he offers it to me or other members of the Committee, I think I would accept it.”

The Mississippi Democrat went on to defend the Committee’s work and the witnesses who testified, arguing none of them perjured themselves. However, The National Pulse reported earlier this year that after Republicans took control of the House of Representatives following the 2022 mid-term election, Thompson, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), and committee staff deleted at least one terabyte of encrypted files pertaining to its proceedings.

COMMITTEE COVER UP.

At the time, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA)—who chairs the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight—accused Thompson and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) of attempting to prevent the release of documents the Democrats did not make public in the course of the Committee’s investigation. In addition, Loudermilk also discovered that Thompson had destroyed the video records of witness depositions.

While Thompson asserts that none of the witnesses called by the Committee engaged in perjury, that appears untrue. The National Pulse reported in March this year that the January 6 Committee hid testimony by President Donald J. Trump’s Secret Service driver that refuted the claim made by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson that Trump had lunged for the wheel in the presidential limo to join the protestors at the Capitol.

A HISTORY OF CORRUPTION.

Prior to the J6 committee, Thompson was perhaps best known for his support for an extremist, black secessionist group, and his backing of a Nation of Islam splinter group, as first revealed by The National Pulse.

WATCH: 

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Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-MS), former chair of the House Democrats' January 6 Committee, says he will accept a pardon from President Joe Biden if it is offered. Thompson made the admission while speaking with CNN's Jim Acosta on Thursday. show more
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April 22, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Lawfare

‘They Want Him Killed.’ – Lawyer Explains Latest Democrat Plot Against Trump.

Legal analyst Alan Dershowitz has warned moves by Democrat lawmakers to take away Donald Trump’s security if he is sent to prison are intended to facilitate his murder. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, has put forward legislation to strip anyone sentenced to a year or more in prison for a federal or state felony of Secret Service protection.

“That’s ridiculous, that means they want him killed because he’s obviously a target,” Dershowitz said of Thompson’s Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act.

“We live in an age where everybody is in danger… certainly Donald Trump needs to get Secret Service protection,” he added.

Thompson has made it clear his bill targets Trump, complaining that “current law doesn’t anticipate how Secret Service protection would impact the felony prison sentence of a protectee – even a former President.”

“[I]t is necessary for us to be prepared and update the law so the American people can be assured that protective status does not translate into special treatment,” he insists.

‘GUARANTEED VICTORY.’

Dershowitz does not believe Trump will be imprisoned at the end of his election interference trial in Manhattan. He predicts New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan will “bluff, fine and threat, but he’s not going to throw Donald Trump in jail.”

Such a move would mean “a guaranteed victory” in November’s presidential election, Dershowitz explained.

Trump’s legal team argues Merchan is compromised due to his family’s ties to the Democratic Party. The judge’s daughter, Loren Merchan, has links to Adam Schiff and Kamala Harris and expressed support for her father imprisoning Trump by sharing pictures of him behind bars on social media.

However, Judge Merchan has refused requests that he recuse himself and banned the former president from talking about his family.

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Legal analyst Alan Dershowitz has warned moves by Democrat lawmakers to take away Donald Trump's security if he is sent to prison are intended to facilitate his murder. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, has put forward legislation to strip anyone sentenced to a year or more in prison for a federal or state felony of Secret Service protection. show more
January 22, 2024
Ed Kozak
Politics

House Jan 6 Committee Deleted Encrypted Files Days Before GOP Takeover.

The former House Select Committee on January 6 deleted 117 encrypted files days before Republicans took control of Congress, a forensic investigation by the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight found.

The Subcommittee on Oversight, led by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga), is currently tasked with investigating January 6 and was supposed to receive over four terabytes of data from the now-defunct Democract-led January 6 committee, helmed by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss). However, Loudermilk’s committee received hard drives containing less than three terabytes of data. This led the Subcommittee on Oversight to hire a digital forensics team to investigate what information was withheld. The team discovered that 117 files were encrypted and deleted on January 1, 2023, only days before Thompson’s committee was supposed to hand the files over to Loudermilk.

Although the missing files have been recovered, the majority are password-protected and cannot currently be accessed, Loudermilk explained in a letter to Thompson demanding that the passwords be handed over. Loudermilk has also sent letters to the White House and Department of Homeland Security requesting “unedited and unredacted transcripts” of testimony given to the January 6 Committee.

“It’s obvious that Pelosi’s Select Committee went to great lengths to prevent Americans from seeing certain documents produced in their investigation. It also appears that Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney intended to obstruct our Subcommittee by failing to preserve critical information and videos as required by House rules,” Loudermilk said in a statement given to Fox News Digital. “The American people deserve to know the full truth, and Speaker Johnson has empowered me to use all tools necessary to recover these documents to get the truth, and I will.”

Loudermilk previously revealed that video depositions of witnesses for the January 6 Committee were destroyed.
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The former House Select Committee on January 6 deleted 117 encrypted files days before Republicans took control of Congress, a forensic investigation by the Committee on House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight found. show more
December 1, 2023
William Upton
Corruption

The Jan 6 Committee Depositions Have Been Destroyed, Reveals Congressman.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) says the video depositions of witnesses for the Democrat-controlled January 6 Committee – including Cassidy Hutchinson among others – have been destroyed. According to Loudermilk, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) – who chaired the partisan committee – did not believe preserving the video data was necessary.

Loudermilk says when he asked Thompson for the files, the Democrat Congressman confirmed to him they had been destroyed. Expressing frustration with these actions, Loudermilk said, “…according to House rules, you have to preserve any data and any information and documents that are used in an official proceeding.”

The revelation of the deposition tape destructions came after Rep. Loudermilk says he was asked by a constituent for information from one sitting. The Congressman’s staff quickly realized something was amiss when they were unable to locate the tapes. This prompted the Georgia Republican to ask Rep. Thompson for his committee’s original files.

According to Loudermilk, because Rep. Thompson and House Democrats aired portions of the video depositions during the January 6 Committee hearings, House Rules required the Committee to preserve the tapes. Undeterred, Rep. Loudermilk says he still believes the complete video of witness depositions “exists somewhere.”

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Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) says the video depositions of witnesses for the Democrat-controlled January 6 Committee – including Cassidy Hutchinson among others - have been destroyed. According to Loudermilk, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) – who chaired the partisan committee – did not believe preserving the video data was necessary. show more