Judge Aileen Cannon allowed Trump’s demand for discovery in the Mar-a-Lago classified materials case available without any redactions. The National Records Administration, the Justice Dept., and the Biden administration appear to have worked together to create the case, according to the paper.
“In one extensively censored part marked “Early Signs of NARA Bias,” it now reveals that NARA General Counsel Gary Stern emailed President Trump’s representatives, attaching a draft letter. NARA General Counsel Gary Stern sent this email on January 16. Stern reported having many discussions with [redacted] from the [White House Office of Records], and that [redacted] had “directly brought up some of these issues with David Ferriero, who is the NARA’s Archivist.”
In his draft, Stern noted that “the transfer of these records is still underway and will not be complete for several more months” and that “things were highly chaotic, as they always are in the course of a one-term changeover.”
The real kicker is this:
“This part goes on, Stern shared an internal email with Congress on October 5, 2021, outlining a plan to “time” NARA’s public relations efforts with the goal of undermining President Trump. In his email, Stern included a “draft letter to the Hill regarding social media records,” which he suggested sending “via WH Counsel… before informing President Trump.” Three days after, the January 6th Select Committee received records from NARA, and the Biden team directed NARA to reject President Trump’s claim of executive privilege.
This week, Julie Kelly of Real Clear Investigation provided pictures of both the unredacted and redacted papers.
This appears to be an overt attempt by the Biden administration to sway the results of a Justice Department and National Archives inquiry.
In fact, President Biden kept secret materials in his garage in open boxes, some from his days as a senator, when it was not his place to remove or hold onto classified material. So far, nothing has resulted from the problem.
Consider the scenario in which a Republican presidential administration had used similar measures against a Democratic contender; one might see the outcry reaching as far as Enceladus.
Judge Cannon has been under fire for the way she has handled the case, and lately, she has rendered a number of rulings that seem to support the Trump legal team.
“Since taking on the case, Cannon has made a number of rulings that are detrimental to the DOJ. During a hearing on March 14, she forcefully pressed the government to acknowledge that no past president or vice president has ever faced espionage charges. In doing so, the court alluded to what many believe to be a double standard against Trump, coming only days after Special Counsel Robert Hur gave testimony in Congress regarding the reasons for his decision not to file comparable charges against Trump’s electoral opponent, President Biden.”
The continuing criminal trial in New York has cast a shadow over the secret materials case, but it is nevertheless one of the continuous legal attempts to discredit the former president in the eyes of the public ahead of the 2024 election. It is also unclear if these disclosures qualify as collaboration in the traditional sense, but the Biden administration should be embarrassed at the very least.
Author: Steven Sinclaire
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