CNN's Sara Sidner and Rep. Tim Burchett got into it on the media and the FD-1023, "I don't have a base. I'm a journalist. I don't have a base, Democrat or Republican...You don't know my politics, sir. You really don't know my politics" Burchett: "Nobody believes that, ma'am"
so US DOJ (SDNY) prosecutes Michael Cohen on questionable campaign contribution charge involving Trump, while waiving rock solid and very large and fraudulent campaign contribution charges by Bankman-Fried to Democrats. Laughable.
I say it's misconduct because there is no justification for DOJ hiding the fact that it is entering into a global plea agreement from the public. DOJ does its work in court under the scrutiny of the public eye. By obfuscating what it was doing here through sleight of hand with two different documents -- when it would have been simple and strait forward to put that fact in the plea agreement -- shows they were trying to obscure the effect.
They did it for political reasons to get Hunter the deal he wanted, and to protect the DOJ and WH from any political blowback for treating Hunter in a way no Joe Q Taxpayer would ever be treated.
Misconduct.
Impeachable for Garland.
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Judge Noreika asked USAtty––five times––if there was any precedent for such a one-sided plea agreement, like he gave to Hunter. He said no all five times and even admitted, "this was crafted to suit the facts and circumstances."
That is a way to play "hide the ball" from the public, but Judges see so many plea agreements in the course of just a single year they realize immediately when something isn't right, and then they ask questions.
That's what happened here. She realized something wasn't kosher and she may issue a "Show Cause" Order asking for an explanation of why the two linked issues were placed in separate documents and then did not call attention to one another.
This was a "hidden" global plea agreement -- and the fact that they tried to pull that off is all the GOP House needs to impeach Merrick Garland.
This is clear misconduct and it would not have happened without the approval of the upper levels of DOJ. This is not something an AUSA and the US Attorney in Delaware are going to try to slip thru on their own.
If Garland wants to avoid impeachment he should ask Lisa Monaco for her resignation by COB Friday.