Justice Department investigating potential presidential pardon bribery scheme, court records reveal

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The Justice Department is investigating a potential bribery scheme related to funneling money to the White House or related political committee in exchange for a presidential pardon, court records reveal

The Justice Department is investigating a potential crime related to funneling money to the White House or related political committee in exchange for a presidential pardon, according to court records unsealed Tuesday in federal court.

The case is the latest legal twist in the waning days of President Donald Trump's administration after several of his top advisers have been convicted of federal criminal charges and as the possibility rises of Trump giving pardons to those who've been loyal to him.The disclosure is in 20 pages of partially redacted documents made public by the DC District Court on Tuesday afternoon.

 

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Investigate voter fraud. Don't waste resources.

Project VERITAS has been investigating And I must say..... Interesting!!

CNN fake news....

Shocking to say the least 😯

Oh, look another fake news smoke screen!

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Trump should pardon all those who voted for him.

Hahaha Fuckn CNN BS-ing all these lost FCKS again..

Yay I actually had this one on my 2020 bingo card. I just thought it was a free space but apparently not 😂😂

Is the trump mafia going down?

Do you think T's attack on CNN, CNNExposed , might have something to do with this?☝️

ginou1010 If people did not see this coming then they have been in a deep sleep

he's going to do illegal shit till he's dragged out by his bad hairdo!

49 more days to end this Trump’s madness in USA! I hope America would regain its integrity and worthiness around the world. The world used to look up to trusting America to practice its own Democracy. I’m glad Trump’s Reigns of Terror will be Over on January 20, 2021.

'I'll take fake news for $500 please' 'Name the president mentioned in a bribery article that most people didn't read yet their tweets wrongly assumed he coordinated it' 'Who is Donald J. Trump?'

Looking at these comments, the crime you should be reporting on is the general publics' inability to read. They can tweet and gram...but they can't read.

WTF? Is this Columbia or Venezuela?

Every so called journalist working at CNN has ruined his/her career. U will never be looked at as journalist again. U will be looked at as people who did what their boss told them to do. Fake story after fake story..shame on you all. Will not be watching CNN any longer.

BULLSHIT

Yowan Can't wait to read all of these comments while people conveniently erase 1/20/2001 from their memory bank. sameenergy

It’s true

NAH! Say it ain't so, realDonaldTrump on the take? NEVER!

Why don’t they investigate Hunter’s pornography on his laptop that show him pictures with underaged girls?

Haha, CNN. Russia Russia, Ukraine whoops Hunters laptop nothing to see move on. Look Joe has pretty socks. Oh Pardongate. Its Rudy the guy that took down the Sicilian Mob. Yeah Yeah Rudy. look over here shinny object. Dominion is safe and secure in China. Hahahahahahahaha

Why are we not surprised.

Bill Barr right now to tRump.

Sure they are.

This is new?

Is betting on it illegal?....my bet is trumpturd takes the bribe...bets it on the result then pardons them...

Ya think?

Not a surprise

We know...Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich...and his own brother

Surprise surprise surprise.

😉

Basically the swamp got swampier ...shocking! 🙄

Worst. President. Ever.

Trump's legacy will be written while he will spending his time in PRESIDENTIAL JAIL!!!!!

What is your ethical journalism standard? Is it bias or evidence? You need to make up your mind.

No fucking shit! 😂

Where is the broker, John Grisham.

Ohhhhhhhhhhh just said the inevitable

This trump is one big crook

Is anyone surprised? Trump only cares about Trump.

Quit lying Fake News

Was it Hillary?

.Project_Veritas just exposed CNN as a *deliberate* propaganda network This is key

I mean it’s cnn for god sakes. We know what their sources are.

Fake news!

Ghislaine Maxwell...

Baba is cashing in .....

I said it a few days ago- The shenanigans have only begun- America has no idea what DirtyDon has been up to-they have been too busy tripping on his tweets- like “Blue Magic” said “So, Let The Sideshow Begin”... Treason

Thank you intelligence community! 🇺🇸🌟❤️

Is this the criminal system change that kanyewest icecube 50cent LilTunechi were working on changing? Asking for a friend.

The Swamp Needs to be Cleaned Out!!! 😜😜😜

Bullsh*t

so screwed! 😂 CNNTapes

This is another lie, fake news.

trump_enemy The impeached president turned the presidency into a criminal enterprise...

Chief Judge Beryl A Howell investigation open Aug. 28th & if Donald Trump had won reelection instead of JoeBiden ---- What would DOJ have done & would Senate have impeach 2021 if Trump was nvolved in BriberyForPardon Wow - Thank God Biden won DNCWarRoom DNC DonaldTrump

Bull 💩

Karma is coming 😈

I smell a rat. Bill Barr and Trump are in cohoots. Barr is trying to distance himself from Trump and appear to be an independent entity, while creating some stupid charges against trump to use so Trump can issue a blanket pardon for himself.

CNN and dems are the criminals.

More lies there cnn dogs

Epstein, Madof or Wienstein

WHAT!! Trump break the law!! How dare you. He is such a good and honest Christian man that only cares about the bible and the little people (no I don't mean the ones that pissed on him in russia). He would never lie, cheat, or be dishonest. He is too busy praying! Shame!!

realDonaldTrump is corrupt? Shocker.

Who didn't think this was happening? Everyone bought cabinet positions. You think pardons weren't for sale? Everything is for sale in this administration. I expect the WH to be practically gutted by the time the Bidens arrive.

How strange

Fake news

Go get em boys!

2021!!!!

No scheme is above Trump.

Fed time state time ! Give me fed. If they go state it’s over . Better learn how to talk gang talk hide knifes in body parts .

HOW DARE TOY KEEP UP WITH UR BS U R DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY U ALSO COLLUDED IN THE PLOT TO TAKE DOWN THE POTUS U SHOULD B CHARGE W Treason PR ExecutiveOrder CNNTapes

Good news, it on the Obama administration. A source knowledgeable about the case.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Hope we get some dickheads named soon.

President Trump pardons for cash and favors!

Hey fake news cnn. Why cant you just tell the news and let people make up their own minds how to feel why do you have to tell them how to feel. I mean how much are the demorats paying you anyway to spread bull

patriciaselfies Ones a traitor always a traitor. Period!

Well duh!!! 😆😆😆😆

Fake News, trying to get away from real news rigged elections?

Not surprised.

Fantastic

In 2016?

You can lay all that blame on China and the Democratic Party

Who is surprised not me

I remember when you guys had a pervert get caught masturbating during a work meeting. Classic.

Money is on paul manafort and Ghislaine Maxwell top of the list. The Russians arrested for the 2016 interference. The high profile pedo cases.

This is how Obama is still a free man. Smh

Ghislaine Maxwell, Harvey Weinstein or that little shitty prick Lindsay Graham. Plot twist: It’s Jeffrey Epstein.

Read the first article about America's role in draining the sources of terrorism in Iraq, and how Iraq eradicated terrorism 4 years after America expected a 100-year life

Yep,I'm done with all this shit,I'm also talking about divorce with my wife because she chose BIDEN, I'll change citizenship to U.K citizens if biden becomes president,maybe someone here can recommend which country to do I vote other than ENGLAND?GOOD BYE MY EX AND USA!🇺🇸

CNN, you people are insane.

no respectable family of grifters would do that

It was us. We need the pardon for the metal thing in Utah. Sorry, Larry thought it would be funny.

This is next level dumb You guys have so lost the narrative And man, desperation is a stinky cologne derp, boot, a potential bribery scheme for, derp, bop, boop a new presidential putter Hahahahaha love it

You unhinged morons🤡

Wouldn’t it be great is realDonaldTrump is impeached, convicted and sentenced before January 20th 🤣🤣🤣. TrumpMeltdown

Can the Trump crime family just leave early? Honestly, just leave the office vacant for a month. It wouldn’t matter.

Is the Durham appointment related somehow?

When will this National nightmare, aka The Shit Show, end?

Why doesn't report on projectveritas report about cnn leaked conference phone calls?

Obama could never do all what realDonaldTrump has done and get away with it. The white community is so pretentious. 🤦‍♀️

HOW LOW CAN THIS CLOWN GO!!!!

I dont give a damn about pardons,funneling money etc. I want the justice department to investigate the election

realDonaldTrump of course the old magic trick cry rigged election while you gravy train your way out

FakeNews

What's going on? - Why hasn't Barr taken care of this? All of this on the same day that Barr said the elections were legal.

Trump or Obama?

We all know Trumps history with pay to play lmao...

Fake news

You never give up, do you? Liars, all CNN.

You guys are reporting about that? 🤣 But haven't reported to the world about Joe Biden being charged with a felony in Ukraine over corruption allegations? 🤔 Double standards much?

wow is this anything like the million dollar check that Denise rich wrote Bill Clinton to pardon her ex-husband Marc rich I wonder - does CNN think no one has a memory Your outrage is a bit much.

Stop acting like their some Royal crime family.. they are Johnny-come-lately Euro trash con artist .. they have never been accepted in true money circles so they made their own .. it’s tired and old .. 80’s throwback .. it’s over

So who’s going to pardon realDonaldTrump ? I am sure the people that added pardoning power are turning in their graves. It’s about to get crazy 😜

Time to get the tiny handcuffs ready

How are we supposed to get a fair, unadulterated investigation when Trump's Lapdog DroopyBarr is running the DOJ?!?

This Whitehouse . underhanded, crooked , above the law ? Exactly .

Good thing he drained the swamp

pls stop .. Trump got so much trash & slime around him it will be 20 years 2sort it out let him pardon himself &his ugly-ass family & send them on their way .. sick of looking at them & their feudalistic peasants ;give them a state where they can live out of sight & out of mind

My money is on Jacob Wohl.

YEAH TRUMPS OFF THE WALL RT NOW BUT IF WE KNOW THIS AND ARE WORRIED OF CRAZY SH!T HE MIGHT DO CUZ HES MAD AT DEMS MAD HE LOST MAD HES A LOSER MAD HES GOIN TO PRISION MAD BARR AN REPUBLICANS ARENT WILLING TO GO TO PRISON 4 TRUMP. SO TRUMPS BN WATCHED CIA FBI THEY WATCHIN HIM 4SURE

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Was it mentioned who was being bribed?

Please stop pushing this man we call president. He still holds the keys to this countries nuclear weapons and is capable of anything.

Hey CNN how about that Hunter Biden bribery scheme That one with all the emails, text messages, pictures & a the ACTUAL WITNESS.

What a great present for our first Political Advent Calendar's window for the last month or so of this administration! We got a bonus with William Barr saying there was no election fraud that he could see. What will tomorrow bring? Can't wait!

Fake news

And it all crashes down And you break your crown And you point your finger, but there's no one around Just want one thing, just to play the king But the castle crumbled and you're left with just a name Where's your crown, King Nothing? Where's your crown?

Quid pro quo AGAIN.

Well if cnn is reporting, it must be true. Lol 😂

Nothing to see here folks, just another day for realDonaldTrump and his goons

Mainstream Media is officially a Joke

25A

Not hardly, try again, looks like O'Keefe has got you by the short hairs, wonder what else... they will expose?

Makes sense

Trump is the most overtly corrupt politician in our recent history.

Roger Stone is going back to jail... along with Trump. 🤣🤣🤣

JohnCornyn Jamal, surely you find this news worthy of a retweet. Smart.

Pardons for sale. Get your pardons here!

Lol

Did someone go pay Steele for another dossier?

ITS LIKE A SEASON OF A TV SHOW THAT I NEED TO WATCH ALL OF UT RT NOW BUT ITS NOT ANYWHERE. SO I HAVE TO WAIT AN WATCH EPISODE BY EPISODE NOT ONOWINGBWHAT WILL HAPPEN AND IM SO DAM HAPPY I HOPE TRUMP BARR RUDY MCCONNELL GRAHAM CRUZ KELLYANNE MCCANNY I HOPE THEY ALL GET KARMA😂😝

The 'Justice Dept' now uses Mein Kampf as a training manual. FreeAssange

LMAO yeah cuz we can trust CNN 😂

You’re kidding me, right😂🤣😂

Good grief we can’t get the DOJ or FBI to look at who wasted hundreds of millions of US dollars on Russia hoax, Biden’s pay for play with China, or blatantly obvious election irregularities but they jump on the pardons. We need good men and women restored.

Shocker!

The redacted name seems 8-9 letters

What a story! Now try telling the truth. It's the same old tune, 'This is the song that never ends.' You know, gaslighting an entire nation full of ignoramuses is illegal and considered a threat to national security.

realDonaldTrump is a criminal

They always in some type of drama. Yet his supporters think he’s clean as the driven snow...

Thought that was SOP for this admin?

You will be SERVED A WARRANT, have a good day FAKE NEWS CNNTapes

That's the most heavily redacted document I've ever seen. The entire factual background is redacted. Half of page 3, all of pages 4-11 and half of page 12. Sheesh.

Seems weird that DOJ Would present this during the time Trump's making progress in proving fraud,i believe they're trying to shift attention from the evidence surfacing with another scandal shunning Potus publically hoping he'll back down,they're determined to get rid of potus🥺

Just full on corrupt 😄. My god

Gotta be honest, no one is going to be surprised by this. Just the beginning of the criminal acts which will haunt and ultimately destroy this sitting President

Ahh haaa

Did Trump bribe himself for a pardon as well?

Shocker 🙄🙄🙄 Trump and his team are cartoon villains. And they will all be pardoned before January 20th.

They replaced the mail-in votes with their made up for Biden vote. They did this under the names of the mail-in votes and they trashed the real votes that were mailed in. This is why they feel you will never find the fraud. You would have to ask every mail-in voter for who they

realDonaldTrump look at you. Gonna get you butt poked by large prison inmates. You are going to be the first US president to be somebody's prison bitch. You are going to be the best! BTW, no Big Mac's in the 'pokey'

A shit ton of Anti Trump folks will only read the tweet and not the article and them comment on Trump.

barr where the hell are you

It's possible this could be more of a one-way relationship between the convicted and Trump/The White House. We need more details before jumping to any conclusions. Granted, when you're as corrupt and immoral as Trump where there's smoke there's likely not one, but several fires.

That is 🐂💩 and you know it! But thrilled with where do I go Joe, whose masturbating son photographs & films his penis, depraved conquests, and crack smoking, & the douche nozzle 🙄dated his sister-in-law as well as dirty deeds outlined by Tony Bobulinski

Not surprised! The Trump/Pence administration is basically a criminal enterprise under the guise of politics.

dejoy

Who is surprised that the same criminal POTUS who bribed the Ukrainian President to manufacture dirt on his political opponent would accept bribes for pardons? Who? Anybody? SenateGOP refused to vote to impeach and remove this criminal scumbag, so here we are.

I wonder how many degrees of separation Mitch McConnell is from this.

Oh I see. This is news worthy. But affiants and sworn testimony on voter fraud and election tampering is not. You guys are a joke.

Barr knows Trump is on his way out and he’s hedging his bet on him becoming irrelevant and exiled. Now he’s gotta turn on trump before Trump turns on him. I’m sure he’s seen the pattern, smart man! Now what was trumps involvement in the Mueller Case, tell it all.

Love the photo of the WH. Makes it look like the fortress that Trump made it into

This is an old school move perfected by the Clinton’s. LOOK IT UO

You get a pardon! You get a pardon! Everyone gets a pardon!

Wake me up when anyone actually faces consequences.

realdonaldtrump jaredkushner IvankaTrump EricTrump Justice is coming to your doorstep very soon.

Not surprised at all

Par for the course with realDonaldTrump and his sham, corrupt Presidency.

realDonaldTrump Retweet this crybabyTrump

😂 now THIS is 100000x more believable than a fraudulent election

I'd skip Christmas if it meant getting tob1/20/21 faster

That's how The idiot is raising money to pay his debts! Remember he has all kinds of loan payments in the millions about to come due

realDonaldTrump Art of a deal... Why am I not surprised.

What? Barr is going against his master?

So what’s the difference between this and how JoeBiden and his son selling the USA out to China

Of course.

That's why Barr DistancedHimself from Trump

No real surprise

Fake news from the propaganda wing of the Leftist. these frauds will lie about anything to cover up the JamesOKeefeIII story that exposes them for what they are

senatemajldr McConnell- Before you say it- It IS a big deal! Bribery for pardon and pardon for campaign donations is a HUGE deal! A MAJOR CRIME! So DON'T EVEN try to convince the public this is no big deal!

Color me shocked.

So I am guessing realDonaldTrump will get a $1 billion dollar donation from Cartels Anonymous and pardon El Chapo?

FAKENEWS CNN

Must consider the source its CNN so who knows if true probably most likely not 🤣

Like no one knew that's why he started this whole election fraud charade, to buy time for Pardons.

Who funded the riots? Where's that money trail?

And cnn isputting this out?!? Libel

Let me guess, your boss is behind this fake news 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I am so depressed that anyone can still support this charlatan. Send him more money for his 'legal defense.' OMFG

The real sad thing is Trump has normalized corruption so much that literally no one is surprised by this news.

Doesn't surprise me. Our 'president' realDonaldTrump is as self serving and selfish as they come

I know it hurts

So fake

No one believes cnn.

realDonaldTrump

Lock them up!

Joebiden was one of them

It's been done before. Tennessee Gov. Ray Blanton was selling pardons for $20,000 each, and his successor, Lamar Alexander, was sworn in as governor early to stop Blanton from even more pay-to-pardons.

If they’re funneling money to the White House, where’s my cut

Guess where the Department of 'Justice' is going? Down the F'ing drain. They will be dissolved very soon. They have zero authority.

This has been going on for months.

What a cry baby fraud

It doesn’t end

Can we just use all the money his campaign has raised since the election to build a prison for all of them? 🤬

CNNTapes

Surprising to no one.......

Again the cult cannot see what’s going on. “Investigating a potential bribery scheme” means just that; let them investigate before u come up with “off the wall conspiracy theories”. Speaking of which; where’s the laptop? What happened to THAT “sure fire gotcha” gig? I keep asking

Investigate Biden and his family for their shady dealings with China ! traitors to America !

Oh Brother, will cnn ever become believable again?

The rich get richer u think it’s never criminal behind it? The do more crimes than the poor

To think Lindsey Graham wants to hold up Biden cabinet appointments in exchange for not prosecuting Trump. Nice little bit of quid quo pro that Graham is offering up

How much did Flynn pay?

I wonder how long it'll take for realDonaldTrump to pardon himself now?

Hahahahaha hahahahaha

He has been open for bribes from the beginning.

I really wished I was surprised. I want to be I really do , but I’m just not. This is right up realDonaldTrump ,EricTrump and a cocaine line up DonaldJTrumpJr alley....

wow - can you actually do that? put WH behind bars? We know WH behind Barr but this is news to me

Hopefully RudyGiuliani is charged

I guess milking his gullible supporters isn't profitable enough! This administration is beginning to make the Mafia look like amateurs! Where is all this insanity going to end! This swamp runs deeper than any of us can imagine!

It happened in Tennessee.

No surprise... In the Trump world everything is for sale .. 🤬

Holy hell. That’s going to suck for those who are “redacted”. Not good.

It's a Christmas present

Zero surprise here.

The investigstion are just starting,wait till all the foul play that went on in that Administration comes out after he leaves.

Oh goodie! Another reason to indict Trump!

I'd say it was unbelievable but...

Most corrupted president! I wouldn’t be surprised

BS! Go back to the swamp where you belong.

Wonder how much Flynn Paid ? ? ?

Shocker.

Trump is a scumbag who would take money for anything. No news here

Justice Dept needs to investigate themselves. Dirty swamp dwellers

Massive voter fraud everywhere, hours of it on TV the past few days, not a word from cnn. This 'investigation' is breaking news. Every day it seems that CNN just one ups itself on one-sided stories, it's laughable.

what a surprise. not.

My god above already. One last criminalapoooza before he leaves

It's criminal and and indictment on the whole government that this guy is still in office and allowed to incite, lie and continue to be a criminal ESPECIALLY in these dangerous 2 months 😩

I knew Kim Kardashian couldn't be learning real law!

Doesn’t sound at all like something trump would do. What does Sean Klannity have to say about this

It would not surprise me.

Don’t waist your time nothing ever happens with this administration

Are you ready for Trump’s Christmas Pardons Sale-A-Thon?

The entire WH is a bunch of sleazy crooks.

Trump needs to fill his pockets before he gets thrown out on his fat ass. I don't doubt the validity.

Where’s Hunter?

😂

Hmmm. Seems somethin’ like this might have happened before.... a governor maybe... Chicago..... hmmm.....

They should have done that years ago not to mention getting cushy gigs in the administration because of 'campaign contributions' to fucking little to fucking late

cnn and yet you didn't cover the Andy McCabe hearings on Russian probe Findings

the DOJ is not to be trusted to investigate anything with Barr & trump in office.

Not surprising at all. Totally on brand for Trump.

President Trump a fraud...yes he is...

Hugo Chavez wants a pardon in exchange for drugs for DiaperDon and fabricating election fraud from the grave.

Is that Clinton's Rich? Or Obama's?

Wow. I'm so shocked that someone is abusing a system when the person holding the pardon power is both morally and financially bankrupt.

Didn’t Blagoiavitch do something similar? Not for a pardon but for a senate seat. Unless he’s a party to this investigation

Well if true, you’d think this might be illegal. But nothing else seems to be.

Rudi

🤣🤣🤣🤣 but the election was rigged, the only thing fishy is the white house

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