Report lays out suspicious timing of meeting between Biden aides, Jack Smith staff

A review of White House visitor logs revealed the suspicious timing of a Justice Department official in the weeks leading up to former President Donald Trump’s documents case indictment.

A new layer of intrigue related to the perceived political persecution of the 45th president was unearthed after a series of White House visits by an aide to special counsel Jack Smith was laid out by the New York Post.

Making note of three, only one of which occurred after becoming a member of Smith’s team, the newspaper detailed, “Jay Bratt, who joined the special counsel team in November 2022, shortly after it was formed, took a meeting in the White House on March 31, 2023, with Caroline Saba, deputy chief of staff for the White House counsel’s office, White House visitor logs show.”

Bratt had been in charge of the counterintelligence and export-control section for the Justice Department’s National Security Division before his role with the special counsel. The Post went on to state, “They were joined in the 10 a.m. meeting by Danielle Ray, and FBI agent in the Washington field office. Nine weeks later, Trump was indicted by Smith’s office on June 8, 2023.”

While no information was available from the logs, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who himself surrendered in Fulton County, Georgia this week after being named a co-defendant in Trump’s indictment there, contended, “There is no legitimate purpose for a line [DOJ] guy to be meeting with the White House except if it’s coordinated by the highest levels.”

There had already been a number of concerns alleged over Bratt’s actions, including by the former chief of the DOJ’s organized crime unit James Trusty who had spoken with Mark Levin about “shenanigans” in the documents case.

As it pertained to the attorney of Trump’s co-defendant Walt Nauta, Trusty had told the Fox News host, “You had the high-level DOJ official — according to a statement submitted as an officer-to-the-court, to a federal judge — told Stanley Woodward, a defense attorney representing Walt Nauta that it would be a shame, essentially, if he endangered his pending judgeship by not flipping Nauta against President Trump.”

“He also happens to be a Democrat donor,” Fox News host Jesse Watters had said in August 2022, “who helped Robert Mueller with the fake Russia investigation. That’s who they sent down to Mar-a-Lago.”

Giuliani was asked by the Post whether he thought the administration was working directly with the special counsel to prosecute Trump and he replied, “You’re damn right I do.”

“What’s happening is they have trashed every ethical rule that exists and they have created a state police. It is a Biden state prosecutor and a Biden state police,” he went on.

He wasn’t alone in questioning the cozy relationship that saw Bratt also visit the White House in Sept. and Nov. 2021 for a meeting with an advisor to the White House chief of staff’s office and with Saba, respectively.

George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley told the newspaper, “There is no reason why the Justice Department should not be able to confirm whether this meeting was related to the ongoing investigation or concerns some other matter.”

Meanwhile, Peter Carr, a spokesman for the special counsel, indicated the meeting was for a “case-related interview” without offering further comment. An unidentified source told the Post it was “an interview of a career official who was also working at the White House during the Trump administration.”

Likening the meeting to allegations against President Joe Biden who had at least been proven to be on the phone with his son Hunter Biden during business meetings, critics weighed in with sarcasm like, “I’m sure they just talked about the weather.”

Kevin Haggerty

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