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House Judiciary Committee republicans -- led by Jim Jordan, the guy who ignored sexual assault on campus and subpoenas -- insisted that the Department of Justice was working in cahoots with the Manhattan DA's office to persecute and prosecute their Orange Jesus.
Today, the Department of Justice told Jordan is ain't so.
"The Department does not generally make extensive efforts to rebut conspiratorial speculation, including to avoid the risk of lending it credibility," assistant attorney general Carlos Uriarte said in the letter to the House Judiciary Committee. "However, consistent with the Attorney General’s commitment to transparency, the Department has taken extraordinary steps to confirm what was already clear: there is no basis for these false claims."Republicans specifically identified a former top DOJ official, Matthew Colangelo, who departed the department in December 2022 and later joined Bragg's prosecution team as the main culprit.
The Department of Justice wrote:
The Department has conducted a comprehensive search for email communications since January 20, 2021, through the date of the verdict, between any officials in Department leadership, including all political appointees in those offices, and the District Attorney’s office regarding any investigation or prosecution of the former President. We found none. This is unsurprising. The District Attorney’s office is a separate entity from the Department. The Department does not supervise the work of the District Attorney’s office, does not approve its charging decisions, and does not try its cases. The Department has no control over the District Attorney, just as the District Attorney has no control over the Department. The Committee knows this.
The Department’s search included the email account of Matthew Colangelo, a former Department official about whom the Committee has raised numerous unfounded questions. The Department did not identify any instances of Mr. Colangelo having email communications with the District Attorney’s office during his time at the Department. Conspiracy theories galore but it's not a cult.
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