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In a Truth Social post this Wednesday, former President Donald Trump slammed "THE HIGHLY PARTISAN & HATEFUL DISTRICT ATTORNEY" Alvin bragg, accusing him of conducting a "SICK WITCH HUNT" with his investigation into the hush money payment handed over to porn star Stormy Daniels by his then-personal lawyer Michael Cohen in the run up to the 2016 election.
During a segment on CNN the same day, the post was brought up, much to the amusement of network contributor Van Jones.
"When they indict him, I don't think he's gonna be saying the same thing," Jones said while laughing.
"Trump tries to manage his emotions moment to moment," Jones continued, adding that Trump must be feeling good about recent reports saying that the grand jury going in Hiatus for a month.
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"Let's not forget, he was the one who said he was gonna be arrested a week ago ... and so there's no delay except in the false timeline he created."
Watch the video below or at this link.
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Matt Gaetz's military affairs aide served time for shooting Afghan civilian in the head: report
March 29, 2023
Derrick Miller, who serves as a military policy aide for Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), was convicted in a military trial for shooting an Afghan civilian in the head during an interrogation, The Intercept reported on Wednesday.
"While on a combat mission in Afghanistan’s Laghman province on September 26, 2010, Miller shot 27-year-old Atta Mohammed in the head during an interrogation," reported Ken Klippenstein. "Miller has maintained that he was acting in self-defense, alleging that Mohammed, who had walked through a defensive perimeter established by Miller’s unit, could be a threat to his unit and that he had tried to grab Miller’s weapon during the interrogation. But another National Guard member testified he heard Miller threaten to kill Mohammed if he did not tell the truth; and then sat on top of him — Mohammed was lying prone — before shooting him in the head, killing him. According to the prosecutor, Miller then said, 'I shot him. He was a liar.' Mohammed’s body was left in a latrine, in violation of military standards."
According to the report, Miller received a life sentence for premeditated murder of a civilian from a military jury at court-martial. He served eight years, but received parole after an aggressive lobbying campaign for his freedom.
"In 2017, Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking him to review the case. 'As you know, our troops face extremely difficult decisions while serving in the heat of battle,' the letter stated," said the report. "Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, also testified in his defense. By 2018, following a clemency hearing, the Army reduced Miller’s sentence to 20 years, making him eligible for parole. He was released on May 20, 2019." Miller served as an aide to Gohmert before taking the job with Gaetz.
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Asked for comment, a Gaetz spokesperson was unapologetic. “He was wrongfully convicted and served our country with honor.”
Gaetz represents Florida's 1st Congressional District, in the far western portion of the Florida Panhandle, which includes Eglin Air Force Base and has a large military population. He came under intense national controversy when he was caught up in a federal sex trafficking investigation, although he was never charged in that probe.
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The Manhattan grand jury hearing evidence in the case against former President Donald Trump in the Stormy Daniels hush money case got an unexpected shout-out Wednesday.
The grand jury got high marks from, Trump, the target of the investigation himself.
The former president gave the jurors plaudits even though details of the probe are confidential under grand jury protocol.
“I HAVE GAINED SUCH RESPECT FOR THIS GRAND JURY, & PERHAPS EVEN IN THE GRAND JURY SYSTEM AS A WHOLE,” Trump wrote in an all-caps post on his Truth Social website.
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"THE EVIDENCE IS SO OVERWHELMING IN MY FAVOR, & SO RIDICULOUSLY BAD FOR THE HIGHLY PARTISAN & HATEFUL DISTRICT ATTORNEY, THAT THE GRAND JURY IS SAYING, HOLD ON, WE ARE NOT A RUBBER STAMP, WHICH MOST GRAND JURIES ARE BRANDED AS BEING, WE ARE NOT GOING TO VOTE AGAINST A PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE OR AGAINST LARGE NUMBERS OF LEGAL SCHOLARS ALL SAYING THERE IS NO CASE HERE. DROP THIS SICK WITCH HUNT, NOW!"
All indications are that Trump’s praise for the grand jurors is the result of his belief that the intermittent nature of the investigation means that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has a week case.
That belief may be misguided, according to a New York Law Journal report in which several former prosecutors expressed the view that the on-again, off-again nature of the probe says more about how grand juries operate than the strength of Bragg’s case.
Karen Friedman Agnifilo, a former Chief Assistant District Attorney of the Manhattan DA’s Office told the publication that the “grand jury works in fits and starts.”
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“It’s not like a trial where it goes in a particular schedule or a particular order,” Agnifilo said.
John Moscow, who served in the Manhattan DA’s Office for 30 years, said bringing together 23 jurors presents challenges.
“Anyone who’s ever tried to plan a party would understand,” Moscow said.
Bragg has reportedly been nearing a decision on whether to indict Trump for weeks, but that decision may not happen until later next month at the earliest. The grand jury is scheduled to go on break after meeting twice next week.
The grand jury isn’t expected to hear evidence on the Trump case until after it returns from break, CNN reports.
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