Saturday, October 19, 2024

Leftists Decried Comey For Flagging Hillary’s Emails. Now They Love Tanya Chutkan’s Election Interference

With less than three weeks until Election Day, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed "Evidence" Special Counsel Jack Smith submitted to justify his lawfare attempts against former President Donald Trump.

"The court will therefore continue to keep political considerations out of its decision-making, rather than incorporating them as Defendant requests." The unsealing comes just weeks after Chutkan unsealed Smith's 165-page brief, which alleges Trump used "False claims of election fraud to disrupt the electoral process" in 2020.

Chutkan's unleashing of Smith's 11th-hour brief and her subsequent unsealing of "Evidence" have been brushed aside by the left - even though Chutkan's mention of "Political consequences" is an admission her decision amounts to election interference - because they're useful fodder.

ABC News pretended that Chutkan's decision to unseal the "Evidence" was her effort to push "Back on Trump's argument that the release was politically motivated to influence the 2024 presidential election." "Chutkan faulted Trump's lawyers for peddling what she called political arguments rather than engaging with the relevant factors to justify sealing the evidence in the case," ABC News reported.

Newsweek used the unsealing to write a piece about a "Mountain" of "Evidence" against Trump - even though The Washington Post, for example, called the unsealing "Unrevelatory." But such blatantly obvious attempts to sway the public's perception of one of the candidates constitutes election interference - at least according to the standard used in 2016.

NPR published a piece days before Election Day in 2016 highlighting the point that Comey's decision came "Just days before Election Day" and that "Former prosecutors and former Department of Justice officials are questioning what Comey hopes to accomplish by announcing the investigation so close to the election." The article went on to cite several anonymous officials who said the timing of the announcement would impact the election.

The New York Times cited "Senior Justice Department officials" who said they "Did everything short of" stopping Comey from "Sending the letter" and argued that Comey's letter could be "Seen as meddling in elections." Vox published a piece in January of 2017 titled "4 pieces of evidence showing FBI Director James Comey cost Clinton the election," which went on to say Comey's announcement had an "Impact" on the race and "Cost Clinton the election." Comey let Clinton off the hook and never recommended charging her, and her loss could not be attributed to anything but her poor candidacy and lack of appeal. 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/18/leftists-decried-comey-for-flagging-hillarys-emails-now-they-love-tanya-chutkans-election-interference/

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