The Clinton Email Scandal Update : Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch
Tom Fitton
December 30, 2019

Jamie Dimon: Dems don't have a strong candidate for 2020

The Hill
January 13, 2018

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said in an interview on Friday that the Democratic Party does not have a strong candidate for the 2020 presidential election.

“The thing about the Democrats is they will not have a chance, in my opinion. They don’t have a strong centrist, pro-business, pro-free enterprise person," Dimon told Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business's "Wall Street Week."

"The American public is not clamoring for more government. They were angry about the Great Recession, they blamed banks, they blamed Washington, but they’re also angry about the bureaucracy,” he continued. 

Democrats are set to attempt to take back both chambers of Congress in 2018, while speculation swirls around a slew of potential candidates to take on President Trump in 2020.

Figures such as Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and former Vice President Joe Biden have all been floated as possible contenders.

Dimon, who serves as the chairman of the Business Roundtable, said in November that Trump would likely be a one-term president. He has since said he regrets those comments.

Mueller's Deputy in Russia Probe Cheered Sally Yates for Bucking Trump Travel Ban

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December 8, 2017

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Since the very beginning of the Mueller investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign and transition teams, some have raised concerns that Robert Mueller may not be entirely unbiased.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Fox News host Chris Wallace the entire process had been tainted by Comey's actions — and Mueller, a close friend of Comey's, was therefore suspect:

"Look at what Comey said. Comey said ‘I deliberately leaked through an intermediary to create this counsel. And it happens to be one of his closest friends.
Then look at who Mueller’s starting to hire. These are people who frankly look to me like they are setting up to go after Trump. They’ve ... by the way, these are people who’ve been reprimanded for hiding from the defense information in two major cases."

And while the dismissal of an investigator — FBI agent Peter Strzok — over alleged anti-Trump texts raised a few eyebrows, there is one other member of Mueller's team who might be worthy of some attention.

Fox News reported:

A top prosecutor who is now a deputy for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe praised outgoing acting Attorney General Sally Yates after she was fired in January by President Trump for refusing to defend his controversial travel ban.
The email, obtained by Judicial Watch through a federal lawsuit, shows that on the night of Jan. 30, Andrew Weissmann wrote to Yates under the subject line, “I am so proud.”
He continued, “And in awe. Thank you so much. All my deepest respects.”

Weissmann was by no means the only person within the DOJ to voice approval of Yates's defiance of the president's order. DOJ Civil Division Appellate Attorney Jeffrey Clair also emailed her:

Thank you AG Yates. I’ve been in civil/appellate for 30 years and have never seen an administration with such contempt for democratic values and the rule of law.
The President’s order is an unconstitutional embarrassment and I applaud you for taking a principled stand against defending it.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said that Weissmann's comments, coming from someone who is acting as Mueller's “righthand man” in the ongoing probe, were nothing short of “disturbing”:

“Andrew Weismann, a key prosecutor on Robert Mueller’s team, praised Obama DOJ holdover Sally Yates after she lawlessly thwarted President Trump.
How much more evidence do we need that the Mueller operation has been irredeemably compromised by anti-Trump partisans?”

Fitton's overall assessment was simple: “Shut it down.”