An investigative report from the NY Post discovered that Jack Smith’s office met with staffers for President Joe Biden just weeks before charging former President Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents.
Legal experts have argued there is no legitimate purpose for these meetings to occur during an active investigation into President Biden’s likely 2024 Republican opponent.
Smith’s criminal indictment against Trump has been widely condemned as election interference and political weaponization of the U.S. justice system.
“Jay Bratt, who joined the special counsel team in November 2022, shortly after it was formed, took a meeting in the White House on March 31, 2023, with Caroline Saba, deputy chief of staff for the White House counsel’s office, White House visitor logs show,” the report found.
“They were joined in the 10 a.m. meeting by Danielle Ray, an FBI agent in the Washington field office,” the report added.
Trump was indicted nine weeks later on June 8, 2023.
The White House logs offer no information about what Biden’s office discussed with Smith’s team at the meetings.
The White House logs offer no information about what Biden’s office discussed with Smith’s team at the meetings.
“There is no legitimate purpose for a line [DOJ] guy to be meeting with the White House except if it’s coordinated by the highest levels,” said former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Giuliani says the White House and special counsel were coordinating the prosecution of Trump.
“You’re damn right I do,” he said in response to whether Smith’s office was colluding behind closed doors.
“What’s happening is they have trashed every ethical rule that exists and they have created a state police. It is a Biden state prosecutor and a Biden state police,” he continued.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said, “There is no reason why the Justice Department should not be able to confirm whether this meeting was related to the ongoing investigation or concerns some other matter,” he said.
