Former Trump Administration official Stephen Miller’s legal group, America First Legal, announced in a press release on Monday, June 3, that it sued the Biden Department of Justice over allegations that it colluded with the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The suit pertains to records that AFL argues should be released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Beginning the press release with a high-level description of its latest legal battle, America First Legal said, “Today, America First Legal (AFL) launched the second phase of its comprehensive investigation into the credible allegations of improper collusion by the Biden White House and Department of Justice (DOJ) in the sham political show trial of President Trump conducted by Alvin Bragg, the New York County District Attorney’s Office, and Judge Juan Merchan.”
Continuing, it described why it is launching the suit and why it believes the Biden DOJ was colluding with DA Bragg’s office, saying, “Today, AFL sued the DOJ to compel the immediate release of previously requested records regarding Matthew Colangelo, a key figure in the partisan and politically-motivated prosecution of President Trump in Manhattan. In December 2022, Bragg reportedly hired Colangelo to “jump-start” his office’s investigation of President Trump, reportedly due to Mr. Colangelo’s “history of taking on Donald J. Trump and his family business.” Mr. Colangelo previously held senior positions at the DOJ and the New York Attorney General’s Office, both of which had competing investigations related to President Trump.”
After listing what communications it is demanding, AFL described what they might show and why it is important that they be released to the American people. It wrote, “These critical records will expose the relationship between Colangelo, Klapper, the Biden White House, Special Counsel Smith, and the New York County District Attorney in the sham prosecution of President Trump . . . the American people have a right to know the extent to which the deep state is also part of the New York show trial circus and the leftist election interference program. AFL will keep fighting to uncover the truth.”
In a separate release, AFL further described what records it is looking for with the suit and FOIA request, saying, “As part of AFL’s investigation into the influence of the lawfare against Biden’s chief political opponent, in 2023, AFL filed a FOIA request to DOJ for all of Mr. Colangelo’s calendars and records discussing President Trump to uncover the extent that his jump from DOJ to the Manhattan DA’s Office was part of the politically-targeted persecution of President Trump.”
AFL also noted that Rep. Jim Jordan has called on Mr. Colangelo to testify about the weaponization of the judicial system. Rep. Jordan called on him to appear before Congress on June 13 to help it “examine actions by state and local prosecutors to engage politically motivated prosecutions of federal officials, in particular the recent political prosecution of President Donald Trump by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.”
America First Legal Senior Vice President Reed D. Rubinstein, commenting on the case, said, “The United States Department of Justice’s job is to check an unscrupulous local prosecutor’s abuse of authority, not facilitate it. But there are troubling indications that political partisans within the Department actively helped lay the foundation for and advance the New York District Attorney’s sham show trial of President Trump. AFL will relentlessly work to ensure the transparency and accountability needed to protect the Department’s integrity and to preserve what’s left of the public’s trust in this most critical of our federal institutions.“
Similarly, Gene Hamilton, America First Legal Executive Director, Executive Vice President, and General Counsel, said, “No one leaves being the #3 at the Department of Justice to go work in a district attorney’s office–no matter which one it is. There is no plausible explanation other than engagement in a coordinated campaign to target one man–President Trump. The American people deserve to see these records.”
Watch Rep. Gaetz confront Biden Administration Attorney General Merrick Garland over the alleged lawfare campaign here:
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