According to bombshell reporting, Donald Trump’s already tumultuous and scandal-ridden life is on the precipice of going straight to Hell, as a judge is now allegedly weighing the possibility of unsealing bombshell secret court documents that would expose the corrupt former president’s unhinged efforts to block damning testimonies made by his own aides.
Chief U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell has reportedly called on the United States Department of Justice to weigh in on a recent, concerted push from media organizations across the country to provide more transparency to the American people, with regard to secret court hearings that have recently been taking place in the shadows in the District of Columbia.
Politico’s Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein report, “A federal judge is considering whether to unseal secret court documents detailing Donald Trump’s effort to prevent former aides from providing testimony to a grand jury investigating efforts to subvert the 2020 election.”
Politico first submitted a request for the secret documents to be unsealed on October 18th. The New York Times soon followed suit with their own request just three days later.
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“Howell’s ask comes as Trump has been quietly waging — and losing — a court battle in recent weeks to prevent former aides from testifying to the grand jury,” the publication reports. “Marc Short, former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, testified before a grand jury last Thursday just hours after a federal appeals court panel rejected a last-ditch appeal by Trump lawyers seeking to raise executive privilege concerns about the appearance.”
Politico was able to obtain and review a court docket that showed D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Karen Henderson, Robert Wilkins, and Florence Pan issued a rejection against the emergency stay the night before Short was slated to testify.
“The appeals court panel’s ruling was the result of a four-month fight that was initiated on June 10 over testimony related to grand jury subpoenas pertaining to the Jan. 6 investigation,” Politico’s report goes on to read. “But it accelerated rapidly on Sept. 28, when Howell ruled against Trump. The nature of the ruling remains sealed but it pertained to two grand jury subpoenas that Trump had challenged.”
Judge Howell gave the US Justice Department a deadline of November 15th to respond to the order.
You can read the full report from Politico here.
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