Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey recently demanded that the Department of Justice provide “communications relating to the illicit prosecutions of Donald Trump.” Bailey took to X, posting a lengthy message suggesting that the Biden administration is participating in a coordinated effort to orchestrate the legal attacks against Trump.
“I am demanding the DOJ turn over communications relating to the illicit prosecutions of President Trump. This includes communications between the DOJ and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, New York AG Leticia James, and Fulton County DA Fani Willis,” he began his post.
The attorney general cited evidence that had allegedly come to the attention of his office implicating Biden’s DOJ in the legal activity waged against Trump. “Thanks to evidence that has come to light, my office has reason to believe Biden’s corrupt Department of Justice is the headquarters of the illicit prosecutions against President Trump,” he continued.
Substantiating his claims that the Trump prosecutions have been a coordinated effort with the federal government, Bailey asserted that a prominent member of the DOJ had suspiciously moved to the Manhattan DA’s office.
His lengthy post added, “The investigations and subsequent prosecutions of former President Donald J. Trump appear to have been conducted in coordination with the United States Department of Justice. This is demonstrated by the move of the third-highest ranking member of the Department of Justice, Matthew Colangelo, to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in order to prosecute President Trump in December 2022.”
Bailey accused Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg of working with New York AG Letitia James to “springboard” himself with the experience to campaign for his “current position.” According to the Missouri AG, the sole focus of Bragg’s campaign was to “go after Trump.”
“In addition, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg worked alongside New York Attorney General Letitia James in pursuing civil litigation against former President Trump, using that experience as a springboard from which to campaign for his current position,” said Bailey. “During that campaign, Bragg promised ‘if elected, [he] would go after Trump.’ Once he won election, he pledged ‘to personally focus on the high-profile probe into former President Donald Trump’s business practices,’” he added.
Bailey further questioned the suspicious timing of the charges against Trump, given that they came up after he had declared his bid for the presidency. He suggested the case was an effort to keep the former president off the campaign trail ahead of the election, a claim Trump has often made.
He wrote, “Given the timing (Bragg charged Trump only after he declared his candidacy for President), the weakness of the charges, and the charges keeping Trump off the campaign trail, there is substantial reason to suspect @POTUS has coordinated with Bragg and others to prosecute Trump.”
Bailey maintained that his constituents in Missouri deserve to know if there is an intentionally coordinated effort with the federal government to prosecute Donald Trump in a politically motivated “witch hunt.” He concluded, “Missourians have the right to know to what extent the prosecutions of a prominent presidential candidate are being coordinated by the federal government, which is currently run by President Trump’s principal political opponent. That’s why we’re demanding the DOJ turn over documents that we believe will expose these political prosecutions for what they are: a witch hunt.”
🚨BREAKING: I am demanding the DOJ turn over communications relating to the illicit prosecutions of President Trump.
This includes communications between the DOJ and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, New York AG Leticia James, and Fulton County DA Fani Willis.
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— Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) May 10, 2024
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