Home Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) is now accusing federal prosecutors of making an attempt to strain Trump legal professionals, and is taking part in a harmful recreation with Particular Counsel Jack Smith.
Rep. Jordan is as soon as once more making an attempt to acquire paperwork from the continued Jack Smith investigation. Now Jordan needs to research Jack Smith’s prosecutors for allegedly pressuring one of many legal professionals being paid for by Donald Trump.
Jordan wrote in a letter to Smith:
The Committee on the Judiciary is continuous its oversight of the Biden Justice Division’s dedication to neutral justice and its dealing with of a particular counsel investigation towards President Biden’s chief opponent within the upcoming presidential election. Final 12 months, Jay Bratt—considered one of your senior prosecutors and high aides—allegedly improperly pressured Stanley Woodward, a lawyer representing a defendant indicted by you, by implying that the Administration would look extra favorably on Mr. Woodward’s candidacy for a judgeship if Mr. Woodward’s shopper cooperated with the Workplace of the Particular Counsel.
This try to inappropriately coerce Mr. Woodward raises critical considerations in regards to the abusive techniques of the Workplace of the Particular Counsel and the Division’s dedication to its mission to uphold the rule of regulation and guarantee neutral justice. In November 2022, when your prosecutors have been making an attempt to safe the cooperation of Walt Nauta—who’s alleged to have “transfer[d] packing containers of paperwork” at Mar-a-Lago2—prosecutors, together with Mr. Bratt, summoned Mr. Woodward to a gathering on the Division’s headquarters for “an pressing matter that they have been reluctant to debate over the cellphone.”
When Mr. Woodward arrived, Mr. Bratt threatened him that Mr. Nauta ought to cooperate “as a result of he had given probably conflicting testimony that might lead to a false assertion.” 4Mr. Bratt commented that he didn’t take Mr. Woodward as a “Trump man” and indicated that he was assured that utility for a judgeship on the D.C. superior courtroom, implying that the Biden Administration would understand Mr. Woodward’s utility extra favorably if Mr. Nauta was a cooperating witness for the Particular Counsel towards President Trump. Mr. Woodward subsequently knowledgeable the Justice Division that they “would haven’t any additional communications” except the Justice Division charged Mr. Nauta or brokered an immunity deal. After Mr. Woodward declined to present in to Mr. Bratt’s intimidation and coercion, Mr. Bratt as soon as once more sought to induce Mr. Nauta’s cooperation by attacking Mr. Woodward’s illustration.
On August 2, 2023, Mr. Bratt filed a movement in Mr. Nauta’s case elevating alleged conflicts of pursuits introduced by Mr. Woodward’s illustration of two different witnesses “who could possibly be referred to as to testify at a trial within the case involving categorized paperwork at Mar-a-Lago.”
He additional steered that the courtroom ought to “procure impartial counsel” to be current on the listening to “to advise Mr. Woodward’s purchasers relating to the potential conflicts.” Mr. Woodward’s reply transient acknowledged that Mr. Bratt’s intimidation threats have been merely “an try to diminish the Court docket’s authority over the proceedings on this case and to undermine attorney-client relationships with none foundation particular to the details of such illustration.”
Jordan has tried to meddle within the investigations of Trump by Fani Willis and Alvin Bragg. In each instances, he was advised by every of the native prosecutors to go kick rocks. Nonetheless, the sport that Jordan is taking part in with the Particular Counsel is particularly harmful to a gaggle of congressional Republicans who seem to have been energetic individuals in Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
In his effort to assist Trump, Jim Jordan is messing with the one workplace that might examine and probably indict members of Congress whether it is confirmed that they performed a task in serving to or aiding Trump’s coup.
Rep. Jordan, like Trump, is making a giant mistake by viewing critical authorized issues by way of a prism of politics. If Jim Jordan tries to return after Jack Smith, he and his Republican colleagues may quickly remorse it.
