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After her shocking testimony before Congress yesterday, U.S. Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle has resigned. Will we get answers about the massive security failure that almost resulted in President Donald Trump losing his life? The Sekulow team discusses the USSS director’s resignation, Vice President Kamala Harris securing enough delegates to be the 2024 presidential nominee, the ACLJ’s legal work – and much more.
Apparently, the Secret Service had already increased its efforts to protect President Donald Trump after recent intelligence surfaced of an Iranian plot to assassinate the former President. So why was security so lax in Butler, Pennsylvania? The Sekulow team discusses the massive Secret Service failure, the Republican National Convention, Trump’s pick of Senator J.D. Vance as Vice President, other RNC news, a new ACLJ FOIA against the Biden Administration, the 2024 presidential election – and much more.
President Joe Biden isn’t planning on going anywhere, as more and more within the Democrat Party call for him not to run for reelection. He wrote a letter to Democrats in the House of Representatives calling for unity in the fight to defeat President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. The Sekulow team discusses Biden’s letter and the turmoil surrounding his White House campaign, the reaction to Biden’s interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity, Judge Aileen Cannon’s latest move in Trump’s classified documents case, the ACLJ’s legal work – and much more.
Due to the U.S. Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling, Judge Juan Merchan delayed the sentencing in President Donald Trump’s New York trial until September 18. Will DA Alvin Bragg be forced to reopen the trial after much of his evidence included “official acts” from when Trump was President?
The delayed sentencing date is huge for two reasons. First, much of the far Left hoped that the attention would shift from President Biden’s poor debate performance to Trump’s original sentencing date of July 11. And as we said last week, it will not be good news for President Biden if the media is still talking about replacing him after the long Independence Day weekend.
Right now, the narrative isn’t shifting for Biden. Yesterday, the primary topic at White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s press conference was President Biden’s fitness for office. Also, an internal Democrat election poll was leaked that sounded the alarm for Biden’s reelection in swing states, and Trump is way ahead in fundraising now following the debate.
The second reason that the delayed sentencing is significant comes from Judge Juan Merchan’s letter regarding the delayed sentencing: “The Court’s decision will be rendered off-calendar on September 6, 2024, and the matter is adjourned to September 18, 2024, at 10:00 AM for the imposition of sentence, if such is still necessary, or other proceedings.”
Did you catch the important nugget: “if such is still necessary, or other proceedings”? In other words, the Supreme Court’s decision could derail Bragg’s case altogether. Within hours of the Justices’ decision, Trump’s lawyers contested this issue, setting off the chain of events leading to the delayed sentencing – a lot of movement happened quickly.
Bragg had presented a broad case that ignored expired statutes of limitations and elevated what would have been a misdemeanor into 34 felony counts. Yet by going so broad, Bragg might have tanked his case completely by presenting evidence that would now be considered inadmissible.
Trump’s lawyers filed a brief to have the jury’s verdict vacated, and the other side will be filing a brief in response. Judge Merchan will review the briefs (which the caveat “if such is still necessary” refers to) before the sentencing date. The judge might not have a reason to sentence President Trump at all.
The Biden Administration has come out swinging against the recent videos of President Biden freezing up that are circulating online. The latest video to spark controversy was at the Hollywood fundraiser over the weekend. President Obama took Biden by the wrist and led the President offstage after he froze up and looked lost. Other recent footage includes Biden appearing confused at a D-Day ceremony, an early Juneteenth ceremony, and the G-7 summit.
At a press conference on Monday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed the videos are “cheap fakes.” But are they?
Each of these hiccups occurred at a well-publicized Biden event. They weren’t secret, behind-closed-doors meetings. Everyone witnessed what happened to Biden on the public stage.
Yet instead of simply addressing the freeze-ups as the result of President Biden being an elderly man and that such occurrences are bound to happen, the Administration insists on gaslighting Americans. It wants to spin the narrative as a conspiracy by political opponents to make Biden look weak.
Playing off the term “deep fake,” which refers to AI-generated content, Biden’s handlers are saying the videos in question are manipulated and/or edited, calling them “cheap fakes.” And now the mainstream media is following the White House’s talking points about these videos being fake.
For example, on Sekulow, we played a clip of former White House Communications Director Nicolle Wallace commenting on the controversy, yet MSNBC didn’t show the full footage of Biden’s freezing up at the Hollywood event. Ironically, the real “cheap fakes” are coming from the mainstream media.
ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy Ric Grenell commented on the mainstream media’s attempt to cover up the truth about Biden’s mental state:
The propaganda arm of the Democratic Party, the media in America, is really in a dangerous situation. They are helping a regime – hook, line, and sinker. They always take the side of the Democrats. They push the Democratic messaging; they’ve lost their credibility. I can promise you that dictators around the world are looking at the control that the Democratic Party has over the media in America, and they’re jealous. Because with every single thing we see, we can watch a video, and the media says you’re not watching this the right way or it’s a fake. And so many in the media repeat that.
If you’ve read George Orwell’s 1984, you will be familiar with the famous line: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” In Orwell’s dystopian novel, the government controls all truth regardless of what the people have seen and heard for themselves. The Biden Administration is using the mainstream media to enact the same Orwellian tactics on the public. It is even using Orwellian Newspeak terms like “cheap fake.”
The White House will do its best to spin the truth about President Biden, but the American people can watch the videos and decide for themselves.
Last week we all witnessed the shocking verdict that resulted in President Trump being convicted on 34 counts. And today we look at another ongoing attempt to weaponize the justice system against the former President.
The far Left, upset that Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon is overseeing Special Counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents case against President Trump, tried to have her removed. However, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed this “orchestrated campaign” to oust Judge Cannon, and she will remain in place.
Chief Judge William Pryor of the 11th Circuit delivered a forceful response to the far Left’s effort to get rid of Judge Cannon:
“Many of the complaints” against Cannon filed with the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals “request that the Chief Circuit Judge remove her from the classified-documents case and reassign the case to a different judge,” Chief Judge William Pryor wrote in a May 22 order posted on the appeal court’s website.
And “many of the complaints against Judge Cannon also question the correctness of her rulings or her delays in issuing rulings in the case,” Pryor wrote.
Those complaints filed since May 16 “appear to be part of an orchestrated campaign,” according to Pryor, whose appellate court reviews cases arising from federal district courts in Florida, Georgia and Alabama. . . .
Pryor, in his May 22 order about the complaints, wrote that he “has considered and dismissed four of those orchestrated complaints as merits-related and as based on allegations lacking sufficient evidence to raise an inference that misconduct has occurred.”
First, let’s quickly recap how we got to where we are in Trump’s classified documents case. Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan (OH-4) launched an investigation into Smith’s classified documents case after Smith ironically admitted to mishandling Trump’s classified documents. Smith’s admission forced Judge Cannon to postpone the case indefinitely – much to the ire of the Left.
And then fireworks went off in a recent hearing in Florida after Trump’s defense team accused Smith’s team of witness tampering. Needless to say, this case has “myriad . . . issues” – as Judge Cannon announced.
The NYPD responded to calls of chaos and made several arrests during an Easter Catholic mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral yesterday. The Sekulow team discusses the New York City Easter service protest, President Biden’s dubious claims about the U.S. economy, President Trump’s request to the appeals court to review the ruling that allowed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain as prosecutor – and much more.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended the Biden Administration’s abstaining from the U.N. vote demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. She claimed the abstention was “not about politics.” However, the U.S.’s abstention angered Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who accused the U.S. of showing a lack of support for Israel (since the abstention didn’t change the outcome). The Sekulow team discusses President Biden’s changing foreign policy with Israel, the ACLJ’s oral intervention at the U.N., Jon Stewart’s hypocritical criticism of President Trump – and much more.
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President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas recently appointed the Obama-era “spies who lied” about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal to a new U.S. intelligence panel. These appointees will be part of the “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group.”
The New York Post reports:
“The so-called ‘spies who lied’ — former CIA director John Brennan, former National Intelligence Director James Clapper, and former CIA senior operations officer Paul Kolbe — will serve on the Department of Homeland Security’s recently-announced ‘Homeland Intelligence Experts Group’ panel.
In that capacity, they will offer their insights about national intelligence matters to the department’s Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis Ken Wainstein and Counterterrorism Coordinator Nicholas Rasmussen.”
But are these men qualified to serve after they were part of the 51 intelligence officials who signed the October 2020 letter that falsely refuted the New York Post’s exposé on Hunter Biden? Don’t forget that this happened just three weeks before the 2020 presidential election.
These 51 officials all claimed that Russian collusion was the culprit behind the laptop scandal – a claim that has since been debunked. In fact, the Obama-Biden intelligence community conspired to create a “Russian disinformation” campaign to bury negative press about Hunter. This Deep State cover-up is tantamount to election interference and helped Joe Biden win the White House.
NEW ACLJ CASE: We now represent FBI whistleblower Garret O’Boyle, who faces unconstitutional retaliation from President Biden’s FBI. The FBI suspended O’Boyle indefinitely without pay in September 2022 likely for his testimony unveiling government corruption, including the FBI’s targeting of pro-lifers after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. As O’Boyle recently testified before Congress, “a lot” of other agents are afraid of being “crushed” by Biden’s Deep State for speaking out. The FBI’s retaliation is a threat to our constitutional republic. We are taking on O’Boyle’s case and will be taking on more whistleblower cases. On today’s show, the Sekulow team discusses the importance of defending whistleblowers’ constitutional rights.
President Trump’s legal team just filed an urgent motion to delay his classified documents trial until after the 2024 presidential election. Trump’s team argued “American democracy” is at risk because a “miscarriage of justice” will result if the Deep State’s political prosecution continues as planned.
A federal grand jury indicted President Trump last month on 37 felony charges. And there may be additional charges, meaning a separate indictment filed in Washington, D.C., very soon. And they all want to start legal proceedings in December, right before the 2024 election campaign really begins to heat up. If you don’t think the radical Left’s pushing hard to get these trials going before the election is a calculated strategy to try to prevent Trump from being re-elected, you need to guess again.
The prosecution is hardly giving President Trump’s legal team the proper time to prepare a defense, especially in such a complex case as this one, as our own ACLJ Senior Counsel Andy Economou explained:
“Today, July 11th, the trial – according to the prosecutors – they want it to start December 11th, 2023, which is hardly sufficient time to prepare a complicated case like this for trial. I’ve had trials that have gone on, that have been indicted, and haven’t been tried for two or three years because they’ve been certified as complex cases. Here you’ve got the Presidential Records Act implicated. You’ve got search warrants that were executed in Mar-a-Lago that may be subject to motions to suppress. You’ve got the question of the President of the United States who’s announced that he’s going to run again against a former President of the United States, so you’ve got an entire jury pool in the southern district of Florida that’s going to be implicated in doing this. So Judge Cannon is going to have to make some very difficult decisions in this case and decide what she’s going to do.”
For every count – every so-called classified document – you have to go to the Classified Information Procedures Act. Of the 37 counts against former President Trump, 31 are classified. That means they’ll have to refer to the Classified Information Procedures Act 31 times alone. Imagine how long that is going to take. This case would absolutely benefit from – and more to the point – clearly requires more time. Otherwise, it’s not a speedy trial; it’s just a hasty trial. We know how fair hasty trials tend to end up, and perhaps that’s exactly why the Left would like to see that. Requesting more time seems completely appropriate. Now we just have to wait to see if the motion is accepted.
Today’s full Sekulow broadcast includes more analysis of this latest filing by President Trump’s legal team asking for more time in the classified documents case. We’re also joined by Sekulow contributor and former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard to discuss the newest social media platform, Threads, which is owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s company, Meta, and its invasive privacy policies that you probably ought to know about before you sign up.
It’s now been revealed that the Deep State FBI opted not to involve the IRS in the Biden bribery investigation.
Senator Chuck Grassley has just sent a letter to U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who is in charge of the Biden bribery investigation, demanding answers for why the IRS was left out of the proceedings when it seems they would have specific information as well as a direct interest in such a case.
According to Sen. Grassley’s letter, an Assistant U.S. Attorney took calculated steps to reroute the investigation of Hunter Biden and then Vice-President Joe Biden, and Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray have not taken necessary steps to correct it.
As the Senator’s letter to U.S. Attorney Weiss stated:
"Based on information provided to my office from individuals aware of the meeting, on October 23, 2020, Justice Department and FBI Special Agents from the Pittsburgh Field Office briefed Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf, one of your top prosecutors, and FBI Special Agents from the Baltimore Field Office with respect to the contents of the FBI-generated FD1023 alleging a criminal bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and Hunter Biden; however, the meeting did not include any IRS agents. . . . [P]otentially hundreds of Justice Department and FBI officials have had access to the FD-1023 at issue, which begs the question that I’ve been asking since the start of my oversight in this matter: what steps have the Justice Department and FBI taken to investigate the allegations? You, Attorney General Garland, and Director Wray have failed to answer.
As you are aware, IRS whistleblowers have affirmed that AUSA Wolf prevented investigators from seeking information about Joe Biden’s involvement in Hunter Biden’s criminal business arrangements; AUSA Wolf frustrated investigative efforts to question Rob Walker about Joe Biden; AUSA Wolf admitted that “more than enough probable cause” had been achieved for a physical search warrant at Joe Biden’s guest house but prevented it from happening due to “optics”; AUSA Wolf prevented investigators from searching Hunter Biden’s storage unit; AUSA Wolf called Hunter Biden’s defense counsel informing him of the interest in the storage unit. Did AUSA Wolf take similar proactive measures to frustrate any investigation into the FD-1023?
In light of AUSA Wolf’s alleged questionable and obstructive conduct during the course of your investigation, I’m seeking clarification from you with respect to your knowledge of these allegations and how you’ve handled them."
So there was clearly enough probable cause to investigate the Bidens, but the FBI seems to have been steering everyone’s eyes away from the evidence, and, in some cases, screening out other offices to keep them from getting too close to President Biden. Senator Grassley is rightly demanding answers from the Justice Department as to what they’re doing to investigate these charges.
Today’s full Sekulow broadcast includes more analysis of this latest development in the Biden bribery scandal and how the Deep State has manipulated the investigation. We’re also joined by ACLJ Senior Counsel for Global Affairs and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to offer his reaction to President Biden telling the world that U.S. military weapons supplies are depleted. Can President Biden ever stop making the U.S. look weak?
President Trump released a statement this weekend predicting his own arrest this Tuesday – that's tomorrow. Jay, Jordan, and the Sekulow team discuss everything you need to know about the investigation and potential indictment of former President Trump. This and more today on Sekulow.
We’ve been telling you for years how the radical Left worships at the altar of abortion. Now we’re getting more abortion distortion from Vice President Kamala Harris. Was it a slip of the tongue, or an intentional twisting of one of our most sacred documents?
While speaking at an event marking the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade – which of course was rightly overturned last year – the Vice President took the opportunity to change the wording of the Declaration of Independence to push the Left’s anti-life agenda.
As reported:
"Vice President Kamala Harris left out the 'life' part of the Declaration of Independence in her abortion-rights speech marking the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, but if she thought nobody would notice, she was sadly mistaken.
The vice president told a pro-choice crowd Sunday in Tallahassee, Florida, that 'we are here together because we collectively believe and know America is a promise.'
'It is a promise of freedom and liberty — not for some, but for all,' she said. 'A promise we made in the Declaration of Independence that we are each endowed with the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'"
As most elementary school students know, the Declaration of Independence actually states:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
For the record, I don’t believe that the Vice President made a mistake at all. She knew exactly what she was saying in front of a group of rabid abortion supporters. Her omission of that key word – LIFE – (not to mention our “Creator” God) was entirely intentional. I’m sure the speechwriter carefully crafted the speech to remove the word “life” in a way that a casual listener might not even catch.
It’s a twisting of one of our most sacred documents in order to push the Left’s extreme abortion agenda. After all, VP Harris, as well as President Joe Biden, received considerable campaign support from abortion giant Planned Parenthood. And we still managed to help overturn Roe on their watch.
Ironically, Harris added that the Declaration was a promise “not for some, but for all.” Surely, this was a reference to the Left’s false belief in a constitutional right to abortion. But when she says “all,” what about the millions of babies lost to abortion? Don’t they have a right to freedom and liberty, as she claims? It’s ghoulish hypocrisy on the part of VP Harris.
While we were live on the air, we also learned BREAKING NEWS that a small number of classified documents have now been found in the Indiana home of former Vice President Mike Pence. We discussed this new revelation and how it could affect the investigations of not only former President Donald Trump but also sitting President Joe Biden. We will continue to update you on this situation as more information becomes available. But one thing is clear: The weaponization of the FBI is now being brought to light and exposed for people of all political stripes to see.
Today’s full Sekulow broadcast includes more analysis of the Vice President’s misquoting of the Declaration of Independence as an attempt to push the abortion agenda, as well as the news of classified documents being discovered at the home of Vice President Pence.
It would sound like a joke, if it weren’t for the fact that this is no laughing matter. The infamous Russian source of the infamous Steele dossier was on the FBI payroll until 2020.
Almost a year ago, we reported that the main Steele dossier source had been arrested by the Department of Justice:
"The Department of Justice arrested Igor Danchenko who is responsible for lying to the FBI over the claims that he made that contributed to Christopher Steele’s dossier. The dossier basically claimed that Donald Trump was working for the Russians, when really it appears that it was the Clinton campaign colluding with a Russian national the entire time."
At the time we asked how the FBI could miss this? Well, now we know that it was no mistake. The FBI was paying the Russian asset.
You read that right, as absurd as it sounds. Newly unsealed documents in the filing by Special Counsel John Durham have now revealed that a suspected Russian asset Igor Danchenko was paid by the Deep State FBI to verify the Steele dossier, the main source presented to a FISA judge to obtain a warrant to spy on members of the Trump campaign.
As reported:
"Igor Danchenko, a primary contributor to the Steele dossier, was hired by the FBI as a confidential informant in 2017, Special Counsel John Durham revealed in a new court filing . . . The new filing reveals the FBI hired Danchenko as a confidential informant in March 2017 after having interviewed him about his work on the dossier months earlier. Danchenko is accused of having made false statements regarding the sources of some information that he provided to a U.K. investigative firm in 2017 that was later passed to the FBI."
So let me get this straight, the FBI was already investigating this guy for essentially being a Russian spy, and then said Igor, you’re our kind of guy, a BAD guy and hired him to act as their own asset. Danchenko remained on the FBI’s payroll, which don’t forget is funded by your tax dollars, through 2020 – in other words essentially through the next election cycle. Oh yeah, and then he was charged in 2021 for lying to the FBI. You cannot make this up.
None of this information was disclosed during the Mueller investigation of President Trump regarding alleged Russian collusion? And some wonder why people talk about bias and corruption running rampant on the Left. As my dad points out:
"Nobody was made aware of this during the course of the Mueller probe. Are you going to tell me Bob Mueller and his team didn’t know about this? That this was false? They never should’ve opened Crossfire Hurricane, but it should have been closed immediately. And this just shows you how it reeks."
ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy Ric Grenell called out the Deep State FBI for its incompetence and corruption:
"Let’s be very clear, Dachenko was hired and paid by the FBI while the FBI absolutely knew that he was a liar. They knew that he had lied so many times that they couldn’t trust him, but yet they paid him. Now you ask why would the FBI retain someone that they don’t trust, and I can’t answer that. What I can tell you is that FBI agents rank and file, DOJ officials rank and file, all knew that the Steele dossier was filled with fake news. That Steele himself was compromised and paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign. And that Danchenko was the source of the Steele dossier and he was not a credible source. Everybody knew that he was a liar. The FBI continued to pay him. Someone in the Senate has got to go crazy with oversight. This is an outrage. American taxpayers, we’re paying a liar."
This is just further evidence that Crossfire Hurricane was a circus sideshow meant to ruin an Administration based on personal bias and vendettas, and everyone involved needs to be exposed and held accountable. Deep State operatives entrenched in the FBI and DOJ must be ferreted out for the sake of our constitutional republic.
Today’s full Sekulow broadcast includes further in depth analysis of this bombshell revelation about the FBI, as well as discussion with Ric Grenell regarding pressing issues that you won’t hear about in the mainstream media.
The U.S. energy crisis is only getting worse. Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn joins the broadcast to explain why she believes it’s an intentional move by the Biden Administration. Jay, Jordan, and the rest of the Sekulow team discuss. ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy Ric Grenell also joins the broadcast. This and more today on Sekulow.
After the Biden Administration’s disastrous withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken will appear in two hearings – one by the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the other at the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee – about the way it was handled. The American people have many questions that demand answers. For instance, why was Secretary Blinken silent when President Biden pulled U.S. troops from Afghanistan when officials knew that it would be taken over by the Taliban immediately? And why were troops removed before evacuating state employees?
These are just some of the many questions that need to be answered. ACLJ Director of Policy Harry Hutchison mentioned more things that we need to find out in these hearings:
"In addition, I would like the Secretary of State to explain whether he believes there was indeed an intelligence failure or, on the other hand, was there a failure of will by the Biden Administration to leave no American behind? He also needs to explain his rationale for not opposing the Bagram Air Force decision, basically to close that Air Force base before withdrawing, or better said, surrendering to the Taliban. In addition to all of that of course, we need to know how many Afghans were admitted to the United States without vetting for security purposes and without vetting for purposes of COVID infections. So, there are questions that need to be answered. My big fear is that Secretary of State Blinken will engage in his usual duplicity and try not to answer questions directly. I hope that Members of Congress will press him vigorously and demand real answers and also demand access to cables and other information which will either confirm Blinken’s claims or perhaps basically suggest he is fibbing once again."
Hopefully, Sec. Blinken does answer directly, but it doesn’t look likely after Republican staff have claimed they have an audio recording of him at the Hamptons shifting the blame of the outcome of the Afghanistan withdrawal to other senior Biden officials. When he is testifying face to face in front of Congress, he will have no one else to blame.
After all of the criticism the Biden Administration has faced over the withdrawal out of Afghanistan, President Biden tried to defend himself:
"If you had told anybody that we were going to spend 300 million bucks a day for 20 years to try to unite the country after we got Bin Laden, after al-Qaeda was wiped out there – can al-Qaeda come back? Yeah. But guess what? It’s already back in other places. What’s the strategy? Every place where al-Qaeda is we’re going to invade and have troops stay there? Come on."
The idea that this decision was about money is ironic considering President Biden is asking for $3.5 trillion dollars right now for infrastructure. Harry Hutchison pointed out this strategy used by President Biden:
"Basically, it is a bait and switch approach by President Biden. He is pushing an initiative which would restructure so many areas of the country under this $3.5 trillion-dollar Green New Deal approach. And then he wants to restructure voting in the U.S. He is now slamming the state of Texas with respect to abortion. It goes on and on. He is a purpose without principle at least in my limited experience with him. . . . I think, because at his core, I think you will find a very empty suit. At the end of the day, I think the American people should make their own decisions, but they should not rely on President Biden’s analysis."
It’s very important to hold these leaders accountable for the choices they made. We know all the facts. We know that President Biden left Americans behind in a dangerous situation. We know we closed an airbase down before we were done using it. We know we were warned that the Taliban would take over before they actually did. So, now we need to know, how did this happen? We’ve already filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and we will be monitoring these hearings to find out the answer to all of these questions.
Today’s full Sekulow broadcast is complete with even more analysis of Sec. of State Antony Blinken’s upcoming hearings.
We just won big in court. We’ve been fighting for five years regarding the Obama-Biden Administration censoring an official State Department press briefing video to delete an embarrassing admission that the Administration lied about its Iran deal negotiations. The Administration initially claimed the deletion was a “glitch,” but after receiving our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, they admitted it was deliberate. But they refused to provide us any further information, claiming presidential privilege for redacting a key email.
Through our FOIA lawsuit, we discovered an email sent by Jen Psaki – who is now President Biden’s White House Press Secretary, regarding the secret Obama-Biden Administration meeting with Iran. We have the email, but of course, it is missing key information, completely redacted. In a major breakthrough in our case, the federal court ordered the Biden Deep State to produce this email unredacted for court review.
On Friday evening, after reviewing the document itself, the court agreed with our arguments and ordered the Biden State Department to hand over this key email to the ACLJ – now with no redactions – between none other than President Biden’s own White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and other Obama-Biden officials.
This type of behavior from the Deep State doesn’t just stop there. As we previously told you, John Kerry, former Secretary of State under President Obama, along with Robert Malley, who was President Obama’s Middle East advisor, conducted secret meetings with Iran while President Trump was still in office. These Biden Administration officials had meetings with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to undermine the Trump Administration and U.S. foreign policy. We just filed another FOIA lawsuit to uncover the truth behind former Secretary John Kerry’s shadow diplomacy.
The Left only plays by the rules when it suits them. When officials asked for former acting Director of National Intelligence, and now ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security, Ric Grenell’s emails, they were handed over immediately. The double standard is unreal.
ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy Ric Grenell explained:
"We know he [Kerry] has been talking to Zarif. How in the world did he not get prosecuted for this? Why is there not a standard for when we see him clearly violating the law? This is what frustrates many people is that the double standard for violating the law is so atrocious. We have to come to the conclusion that this is strategic and that this is not just an oversight or something that was a mistake. Clearly the Department of Justice is moving towards political prosecutions. Let’s be honest. I think the next step is getting our senators to stop talking and haul these people in and say why aren’t you applying the standard in the same way? Where are our Republican Senators? Don’t come asking for money if you’re not going to do anything when you’re in office."
Ric added:
"Let me be very clear John Kerry was working with the Europeans and Iranians, not in the official back channel, but in an unofficial back channel in a way that undermined the Trump Administration, and he was working with Democrat Senators – I know this to be a fact."
Coincidently, the same people who have deliberately hidden information from the American people are now back in power and trying to negotiate a deal with Iran once again. The Biden Administration is proving that they believe that power and political advantage are more important than American security.
ACLJ Senior Counsel and Director of Policy Harry Hutchison summarized our progress with this particular FOIA request and where we stand in our fight to defeat the Deep State:
"At the ACLJ, we have consistently emphasized several things including the necessity of defeating the Deep State. And we have worked tirelessly to uncover Deep State duplicity. And I think with this particular FOIA request, we have simply scratched the surface of premeditated and deliberate efforts by the Deep State to hide information from the American people. And this move has unleashed a sleeping giant within the bureaucracy, and this means our 5-year-old request is the first of many revelations to come."
We are taking direct action here. We have been dealing with this FOIA request for five years. We finally got the win, but it takes perseverance and focus on the long game for these types of issues. It takes years of work to get to the truth. The Biden Administration will do everything they can to keep this information hidden from you, and they are likely to try to appeal this ruling. But we are ready to take this all the way to the Supreme Court, if need be. The American people will get the answers they deserve.
Today’s full Sekulow broadcast is complete with even more analysis of the court order regarding our FOIA request and the details around John Kerry’s secret meetings with Iran.