{"id":63381,"date":"2026-04-01T13:16:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63381"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T17:16:29","slug":"the-truth-is-seeping-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63381","title":{"rendered":"The Truth Is Seeping Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/federal-agencies\/garland-aware-jack-smiths-efforts-pierce-legal-privileges-pursuing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just the News<\/a> posted an article about the lawfare used against President Trump. I need to mention that Just the News is one of the few news sites right now that is doing unbiased investigative reporting.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>What did he know and when did he know it? That\u2019s a question former Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland may soon face as the size and scope of Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith\u2019s dragnet to criminally prosecute Donald Trump comes into fuller focus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Evidence released in the past week by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley shows Smith\u2019s team prepared a briefing memo in January 2023 \u2013 as the presidential race between then-President Joe Biden and Trump was heating up \u2013 which alerted Garland that prosecutors were obtaining the communications of as many as a dozen Trump private lawyers and allies and Congress.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The memo made clear that those gatherings were being done despite legitimate claims the lawyers and members of Congress may have for attorney-client and Debate and Speech Clause privileges.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The \u201cAG BRIEFING\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/arctic_frost_-_ag_briefing_doj_emails_kp_subpoenas_ndos.pdf\">document<\/a> by Smith\u2019s office \u2013 dated Jan. 13, 2023 \u2013 provided Garland and his office with deep insights into the anti-Trump special counsel\u2019s ongoing inquiry, and its future plans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The documents were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/arctic_frost_-_ag_briefing_doj_emails_kp_subpoenas_ndos.pdf\">released<\/a> this month by Grassley, an Iowa Republican, in coordination with Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Garland\u2019s intimate knowledge of Smith\u2019s inquiry comes as little surprise.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Recent evidence also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/doj_approval_to_open_arctic_frost.pdf\">shows<\/a> that Garland, then-Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and then-FBI Director Christopher Wray signed off on the launch of the so-called &#8220;Arctic Frost&#8221; inquiry into Trump related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Garland also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/garland-statement-wake-of-fbi-trump-raid\">said<\/a> he \u201cpersonally approved the decision to seek a search warrant\u201d for the FBI\u2019s unprecedented raid of Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022. The Biden White House was also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/all-things-trump\/biden-white-house-facilitated-dojs-criminal-probe-against-trump\">directly linked<\/a> to the classified documents investigation into Trump, despite its denials, records show.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Jack Smith does not have a great track record&#8211;his case against <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the former Republican governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell was overturned by the Supreme Court 8-0. How often does the Supreme Court agree on anything?<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Please follow the link to read the entire article. It is becoming clear that the government was weaponized against President Trump. The people responsible need to go to jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Just the News posted an article about the lawfare used against President Trump. I need to mention that Just the News is one of the few news sites right now that is doing unbiased investigative reporting. The article &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63381\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13417,18263,16026,12498,10589,18306,37],"class_list":["post-63381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biden-administration","tag-former-attorney-general-merrick-garland","tag-jack-smith","tag-just-the-news","tag-president-trump","tag-senate-judiciary-committee-chairman-chuck-grassley","tag-virginia-gov-bob-mcdonnell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63382,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63381\/revisions\/63382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}