The Department of Justice joins the GOP Senate majority in the cover-up:
The Department of Justice revealed in a court filing late Friday that it has two dozen emails related to the President Donald Trump’s involvement in the withholding of millions in security assistance to Ukraine — a disclosure that came just hours after the Senate voted against subpoenaing additional documents and witnesses in Trump’s impeachment trial, paving the way for his acquittal.
The filing, released near midnight Friday, marks the first official acknowledgment from the Trump administration that emails about the President’s thinking related to the aid exist, and that he was directly involved in asking about and deciding on the aid as early as June. The administration is still blocking those emails from the public and has successfully kept them from Congress.
A lawyer with the Office of Management and Budget wrote to the court that 24 emails between June and September 2019 — including an internal discussion among DOD officials called “POTUS follow-up” on June 24 — should stay confidential because the emails describe “communications by either the President, the Vice President, or the President’s immediate advisors regarding Presidential decision-making about the scope, duration, and purpose of the hold on military assistance to Ukraine.”
And to think the right-wingers shriek all day long about the Deep State.
The Department of Justice appears to be thoroughly corrupted at this point. To wait until the midnight after the Senate voted not to hear witnesses or subpoena documents that might shed more light on the president’s actions to reveal that there are more pertinent documents but they won’t release them anyway comes perilously close to some kind of trolling or, at least, a very calculated defiance.
We knew the DOJ helped Trump when they cavalierly dismissed the whistleblower complaint as a mere concern about campaign finance issues. This shows that they are actively involved in the cover-up right along with the US Senate.