DOJ investigating potential White House 'bribery-for-pardon' scheme

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BREAKING: U.S. Justice Dept. is investigating potential “bribery-for-pardon” scheme involving presidential pardons, according to newly unsealed federal court documents.

Drew Angerer / Getty Images fileFederal investigators are looking into a potential “bribery-for-pardon” scheme involving presidential pardons, according to federal court documents unsealed by the chief judge for the federal court in Washington D.C..

The documents discuss whether prosecutors can review documents that may have been protected by attorney-client privilege and were seized as a result of a search warrant. The investigation also involves an alleged offer by another individual to “offer a substantial political contribution in exchange for a presidential pardon or reprieve of sentence.”

 

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No they aren't. The case was closed.

anything to divert attention away from the real electioneering crimes, right MSM?

bullshit

LOCK HIM UP! NOW DAMN IT!

No they arent lmaooo ur such laughable liars loool. Case is closed and no wrong doing was done. Stop with this idiotic propaganda already!!!

Are they considering investigating Joshua Kushner's Oscar Health Insurance Corp.? And possibly Trump's insistence to GOP and Judges to totally repeal ACA? I have a hard time believing that Oscar's inability to turn a profit after 8 years would not be helped by Trump's influence.

That means that Joe Biden Bribed people for votes. You always twist what they accuse Trump of doing and put it on Biden and sure as shoot'n they are doing it.

Interesting if msnbc did a little digging on Barr’s association with Epstein. They go way back. Did Barr funnel the rich and powerful to Epstein’s Pedo Island - setting them up for blackmail? How long have Barr and Trump known each other? Was Barr lawyer for Epstein/Trump case?

I can assure you the potential bribery pardons are just that. Him & his family are all about bribery have been corrupt throughout their lifetime!

realDonaldTrump will never be convicted in this life time!! He sold his soul decades ago. He’s protected far better then William Barr

This is what you find to be worth reporting. Ok. Why don't we just go back to the pee pee story?

That is why he is going to Georgia. Period. Television coverage - speech - fraud claims - raises $$$ By Jan 20 Trump will be close to paying off his $400m debt.

I’m shocked 😳

Bribery is defined as giving, getting an item of value to influence the actions of a public figure. Well, Trump's Pardons are always self serving. He only Pardons people who he believes will benefit him politically, benefit his legal exposure. He's basically bribing himself.

Why isn’t the news , not worried about the amount of whistleblowers, there are , in our elections? One unknown, won’t show there self whistleblower , a friend of crooked Democrat Adam Schiff, they embrace . Don’t get it. President Trump is the most transparent, Biden won’t be.

Oh boy, be prepared for the old 'witch hunt' to resurface.

kenjeong Good! Little by little all their mess will be brought to life. All the did was underwater self-served from the position. All they brag are Obama initiatives already in place.

Let me give you one word of advice. Trump is on his way down to Georgia for one reason and one reason only! My fellow Republicans hold on to your wallets, Trump has been taking money not for the party but for his own self interest! Find out why he’s asking!

Bill Clinton took millions from a drug dealer and pardoned him and nothing happened. Corrupt DOJ all day long.

'bribery-for-pardon' scheme? No doubt. Trump is good at that!

Unceasing lawlessness and corruption from the trump administration, unceasing excuses, denials and corruption from gop lawmakers and unceasing questionable practices from republican bureaucrats.

kenjeong Because of course

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This family is con artists!

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Just to distract people away from the fraud hearings.

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I think we need a new term for Trumps antics... ‘Deep Swamp’.

Is this a joke? We're talking Bill Barr's DOJ? Seriously.

Here is some info:

Debt is a merciless mistress. This is like watching an adddict duck & dive to find cash to pay for the next fix.

The DOJ is investigating something?

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Obama pardons terrorists, criminals and a cop killer.

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Can he just one day not be a complete mess. I don’t think there’s been one day he hasn’t said, tweeted or done that hasn’t been a complete fail.

I have no doubt this happened...when is January again?

if stealing votes is fictional!

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But according to a WSJ report today, they had the name of the lawyer in question, and a good idea who the lawyer were working for, and who the pardon was meant for, a friend of a billionaire.

Shocked. Shocked, I tell ya....

kenjeong ...the littlest turd...

Pardons: 5 Big Mac, a Bargain Bucket and 7 finely crushed Adderall.

Wow, that didn't take long for the turn

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Fast track 25th amendment now then prosecute.

This story was debunked 2 days ago. Now back to election fraud...

This network is so full of 💩

And Bill Barr will shut it down

DsOchoa Yep I bet it’s for his whistle blowers and Rudy Giuliani... ABC Alyssa_Milano

Morning_Joe Maybe they should be checking into election fraud by the Democrats.

The heavily redacted documents revealed Tuesday do not name the individuals involved or President Donald Trump. They also do not indicate if any White House officials had knowledge of the scheme.

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Unceasing lawlessness and corruption from the trump administration, unceasing excuses, denials and corruption from gop lawmakers and unceasing questionable practices from republican bureaucrats.

sally2014b The carnival barker never changes his stripes. He's now attired in the disguise of an ill-fitting civilian suit that looks like he slept in it after an all nighter of drugging to be able to present his lying face to a mocking world.

The creatures in the swamp are coming to the surface.

If the documents are unsealed then where can I find them?

Well if Trump denies it, it's probably true. Shocker.

I want names and I want them now. Also, did Trump report this to Barr or did they catch him in the act? Americans want to know. Is this the reason why Trump wants to self pardon and can he legally do this? So many questions. Film at eleven. 😃 🙂

Shame on realDonaldTrump, what does he have to say now.

We want DOJPH to investigate Trump bribery scandal each and every thing that involves in it

Of course they are

That is why he is so crazy nowhe knows how much they have done wrong!

Trump singing to himself 🎶 you can’t pardon everyone, so you, got to pardon yourself 🎵

Breaking: MAINSTREAM MEDIA OUTLETS THROW SHIT ON THE WALL TO SEE WHAT STICKS!

So do we believe Trump? His 'fake' has tended to be 'truth'.

Lock him up!

From DrainTheSwamp to pardontheswamp in just 4 years. From now on thete will be a pardonclause in all of Trumps NDA's

We’ve been here before. All the media behaving like Trump about to be proper found out. Never follows through. It’s media drama and worries me that they’ll keep his face ok tv til 2024 with no reason but ratings

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Didn’t you just post this a half hour ago? Really are pumping out the misleading info.

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Lock him up.

Here are my two predictions: 1.Trump is guilty, and 2.He will not be punished for it.

He can’t run for president in 2024 from a cell, can he?

So guilty

Have we heard realDonaldTrump claim to know nothing about this thing that involves himself directly? Like the Stormy Daniels payments we know he signed the checks for?

Don't you just wonder why the White House of ALL places might just be involved

Fake News

BREAKING: MAINSTREAM MEDIA OUTLETS THROW SHIT ON WALL TO SEE WHAT STICKS!

I hope everything is unveiled so that his followers will know who he is.

No names, dates or details of any kind. But sure, lets paste a picture of Trump on here.

Another HOAX

Perhaps election fraud should be reported ..its going to Scotus and Dhi is investigating it .how is it bot newsworthy? Do your damn jobs!

Yall gonna cover this ? FbI seems interested in it .. Theres alot of Americans interested in Election fraud too .. Like over 80 million Americans... Jw when you will become real journalists again...

Bruh... 🤦🏿

So Donnie was the deep state after all, who would have guessed it !

I believe Obama was involved with selling his own Senate seat more than I believe this. Trump is a billionaire. He doesn't need the money.

Please tell me one day since this man has been in office there has been a chill day for this dude

The monetary value of a pardon is $10,000, if the Tiger King pardon is given

For those with selective reading skills: “No government official was or is currently a subject or target of the investigation disclosed in this filing,' a Justice Department official said.

This movie is getting interesting. Trump say fake investigation. Barr shows him what is a real investigation. Instead of election fraud, Barr found Presidential Pardon bribery. Wow, only in this country. Legislation should dump Presidential Pardons provisions

Would this really be called Cash for Pardons by Barr Stool Bill? Or Did Either Cohen, Stone, Flynn Bribe the President with their 1st hand knowledge of Trumps illegal actions? But this sounds like Cohen, Rudy & Ukraine issues.

morgfair there is one name involved that's important ... the name of the only person who can pardon people ... 'redactions' or not, Trump can't hide

Hilarious... meanwhile no interest in the obvious case.of Clinton's dokng so. What a joke.

Of course they are...

hey Judicial league , investigate this. I doubt you will as it is about Humpty Trumpty. You tend to go for the theorist garbage. FALSE JUNK FROM FAR RIGHT. I'm watching to see if you investigate real crime in government.

OMG! This gona be a farewell for trump

I don't know if the courts have tested the ability to pardon people for crimes that haven't yet been charged. Ford pardoned Nixon, but nobody ever tested that pardon in court by trying to charge Nixon with a federal crime after he left office. The courts haven't ruled on it yet

I hope JoeBiden's AG is going to indent realDonaldTrump . JoeBiden should not interfere. We can't have a crook president and do nothing so we won't look like banana republic? the fact that the president engage with bribery-for-pardon makes are already banana Republic.

No money, no talk. There is money involved when politicians talk.

Such a cock & bull story

What pardons would those be? Why nobody cared about about Obama and Manning or Clinton with Mark Rich?No prosecution of Hillary? Two Tier double Standard

No. Such a scandal happened with the Clintons, and not Donald Trump.

2- if america don't want to have his ineptitude and outrageous rants and racist slurs ataking people because his ego just don't vote for him anymore he proves he is unfitting for the job he never do we don't need him anymore trump is unfit for the W H never again

Uh oh, that is new, pardon for sale....can i buy one lol

With Barr still on the job, I’d wait until Biden and his AG are in place to pursue this unless enough details and probable facts make this overwhelmingly impossible for a Barr DOJ to sweep under the rug.

Lock him up!

I guess that’s why he’s not bad mouthing Barr

This doesn't sound like trumpy it all🙄

Of Course !! Did you think Donald Trump would PARDON people for FREE !!! The TRUMP family looks to make money in EVERY ILLEGAL way they can while TRUMP was President. Throw them all in PRISON !! they are a Family of CROOKS !!

Go get him.

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What a shock

There cannot possibly be a way for trump to distance himself from this right? If it happened it was 100% with Trump’s approval.

Add to the list of disgraceful conduct of this thing mascarading as a president

Sinaloans suddendly look like amateurs

Add it to the list of criminal charges Trump already had pending .

pray no pardon is in the offing for trump! It doesn't surprise me about bribery in the White House though…

Yeah let's see what happens with this, if they don't find anything more than likely that they were looking in the wrong place.

He was probably soliciting the pardon for cash

Heinzilla *grasps pearls* quick, someone pass me the smelling salts. Of course he did, and he’s scamming his own supporters too. Conmen do tend to con.

Put it all out there so he can pardon himself before he leaves... He can't get away from New York!

here we go.. someone pass the popcorn please... god I wish McConnell would be involved!!

SORRY YOUVE LOST ALL CREDIBILITY

So, there’s nothing normal about $140 million in campaign contributions after the election is already lost?

Individual One strikes again!

Living in IL, I immediately thought of this.....

Just don't charge them yet whatever you do.

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