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'Illegally leaked false allegations': Trump campaign goes ballistic over report he misled attorneys
March 22, 2023
Former President Donald Trump's presidential campaign is pushing back against reports that detailed special counsel Jack Smith's evidence showing the former president “committed criminal violations.”
According to Mediaite, the campaign's concerns stem from a report written by ABC News' Katherine Faulders, Alexander Mallin and Lucien Bruggeman. The writers shared details about U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell's sealed filing noting that Smith's legal team “made a 'prima facie showing that the former president had committed criminal violations.'”
"Sources added that Howell also ordered Corcoran to hand over a number of records tied to what Howell described as Trump’s alleged 'criminal scheme,' echoing prosecutors," the report reads. "Those records include handwritten notes, invoices, and transcriptions of personal audio recordings."
It adds, "In reaching the so-called prima facie standard to pierce Corcoran’s privilege, Howell agreed prosecutors made a sufficient showing that on its face would appear to show Trump committed crimes. The judge made it clear that prosecutors would still need to meet a higher standard of evidence in order to seek charges against Trump, and more still to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt."
Shortly after the report was released, Trump's campaign released a statement on Tuesday, March 21.
"Shame on Fake News ABC for broadcasting ILLEGALLY LEAKED false allegations from a Never Trump, now former chief judge, against the Trump legal team. This disinformation is on par with their breathless Russia, Russia, Russia, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine and 'no-collusion' Mueller speculation, all of which were totally disproven," the statement read.
The campaign team went on to share details about the alleged leak.
"These leaks are happening because there is no factual or legal basis or substance to any case against President Trump. The deranged Democrats and their comrades in the mainstream media are corrupting the legal process and weaponizing the justice system in order to manipulate public opinion, because they are clearly losing the political battle," the statement read.
It adds, “The real story here, that Fake News ABC SHOULD be reporting on, is that prosecutors only attack lawyers when they have no case whatsoever. 'President Trump is the only leader fighting for the Constitution in order to protect the American people from being abused by a crooked system.'"
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Marjorie Taylor Greene hurls incendiary allegations against Manhattan DA as Trump indictment looms
March 22, 2023
The Manhattan grand jury hearing evidence in the investigation over Donald Trump’s alleged hush money payments to Stormy Daniels is off Wednesday, but Marjorie Taylor Greene is on the case.
The far-right congresswoman from Georgia on Wednesday hurled some of the most incendiary allegations yet against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, accusing the prosecutor, without evidence, of “trying to incite civil unrest.”
“Now it’s time to arrest Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg for prosecutorial misconduct after hiding hundreds of pages of exculpatory evidence!” Greene tweeted Wednesday.
“Bragg is on the verge of indicting an innocent former President and top Presidential candidate against the opposing ruling party.”
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Greene wasn’t the only member of the House Freedom Caucus who to rage tweet against the Manhattan DA on Wednesday.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) in a tweet took a not-so-veiled dig at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for not doing more to protect the former president.
“If I were Governor of Florida, I would not allow any Floridian to be hauled before a Soros-backed prosecutor in a blue city over politics. I wouldn’t make an exception to not protect the President of the United States,” Gaetz tweeted.
“Ron DeSantis should be standing in the breach to stop any sort of extradition of President Trump from the state of Florida. The fact that he’s not doing so puts every Floridian at risk who could be the subject of a false allegation.”
But even Gaetz didn’t go nearly as far as Greene, who called for Bragg’s arrest.
“Bragg is breaking the law and trying to incite civil unrest with his Soros funded political war,” Greene tweeted.
“Hold him accountable!”
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A Romanian court on Wednesday extended the detention of controversial influencer Andrew Tate while he's being investigated along with his brother for alleged human trafficking and rape.
Tate, 36, and his brother Tristan, 34, were arrested in late December, and their detention has been extended every month since then by Romanian judges.
Under Romania's legal system, pre-trial detention can be extended to a maximum of 180 days, pending possible indictment.
The Bucharest Tribunal ruled to extend their detention by a further 30 days, a decision which can be appealed.
The latest extension left the brothers "speechless", their media team said.
"The substantial material damages they have suffered are nothing compared to the moral ones. Their image has been irreparably harmed," it said.
The brothers continue to deny all charges brought against them.
Tate, a British-American former kickboxer who has millions of online followers, along with his younger brother and two Romanian women, are under investigation for allegedly "forming an organised criminal group, human trafficking and rape".
As part of the probe, Romanian police raided several properties connected to the Tate brothers and seized many of their assets, including a collection of luxury cars.
A court document from January said that one woman was "recruited" from the UK after she fell in love with Andrew Tate, who then brought her to Romania "with the goal of sexual exploitation".
In 2016, Tate appeared on the "Big Brother" reality television show in Britain but was removed after a video emerged showing him attacking a woman.
He then turned to social media platforms to promote his divisive views before being banned for misogynistic remarks and hate speech.
Tate was allowed back on Twitter after the South African billionaire Elon Musk bought the company.
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