Sean Allison's classic experience: A classic saga of Sean Allison's good-old adventures (prior to the Pokémon experience) - Part 26 = {Driving Ib and Ib - Part 26 🠊 The Triss team's sitcom show - Part 26 🠊 Parody adventures with Luffe and Sjanne - Part 26 🠊 The Angora guys by night - Part 26 🠊 Fritz and Poul (ft. Split) records their livestream commentary for "Sean Allison and co.'s hero-brave sad-to-fab quest thru their hero-brave journey from sad to fab" - Part 26} ▶ [Mr. Müller's audio/video commentary for "Sean Allison and co.'s hero-brave sad-to-fab quest thru their hero-brave journey from sad to fab"] Sean Allison's hero-brave journey from sad to fab - Part 26 = [Mr. Schüster's audio commentary for "Sean Allison and co.'s pre-historic quest"] Sean Allison and co.'s pre-historic quest - Part 26 = Sean Allison reads some funny signs - Part 7: Sean Allison resolves himself within the funny signs / Sean Allison decides to become hero-brave / Sean Allison becomes hero-brave / Sean Allison begins a new day / Sean Allison meets Lori Allison / Sean Allison and Lori Allison meets some new friends / Make way for Sean Allison and co. / Sean Allison and co. begins their adventure / Sean Allison teams up with Dave Matson and co. / Sean Allison and co. engages some funny signs - Part 1: Sean Allison and co. engages into an embryonic funny-sign journey
And now, back to the show.
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9015.9015.9015.Sean Allison gets tagged by some funny signs with some facts about himself and those funny signs
9016.9016.9016.Sean Allison gets crushed by another more funny signs
9017.9017.9017.Sean Allison gets crushed by yet another more funny signs
9018.9018.9018.Sean Allison gets crushed by yet again another more funny signs
9019.9019.9019.Sean Allison gets crushed by still yet again another more funny signs
9020.9020.9020.Sean Allison reflects these funny signs
9021.9021.9021.Sean Allison does some stinky tricks of funny signs
9022.9022.9022.Sean Allison gets cannoned by those funny signs
9023.9023.9023.Sean Allison studies the funny sign school
9024.9024.9024.Sean Allison requires an funny sign service
9025.9025.9025.Sean Allison glitches up those funny signs
9026.9026.9026.Sean Allison does some funny sign bullshit
9027.9027.9027.Sean Allison get some fake funny sign-ache
9028.9028.9028.Sean Allison trampolines some funny signs
9029.9029.9029.Sean Allison gets dumped and licked with some funny signs
9030.9030.9030.Sean Allison gets bombed by some funny signs
9031.9031.9031.Sean Allison gets tossed dumb by some funny signs
9032.9032.9032.Sean Allison gets swirlfted by some funny signs
9033.9033.9033.Sean Allison gets zapped by some funny signs
9034.9034.9034.Sean Allison gets falcon-punched by some funny signs
9035.9035.9035.Sean Allison gets screwed up by some funny signs
9036.9036.9036.Sean Allison has another more crazy illegal funny signs
9037.9037.9037.Sean Allison gracks those funny signs
9038.9038.9038.Sean Allison chesses with some funny signs
9039.9039.9039.Sean Allison gets an prunk case with some funny signs
9040.9040.9040.Sean Allison taxes some funny signs
9041.9041.9041.Sean Allison gets serious of funny signs by wreaking an microwave disaster
9042.9042.9042.Sean Allison gets rock-tossed by some funny signs
9043.9043.9043.Sean Allison gets thoroughly cliff-tossed by some funny signs
9044.9044.9044.Sean Allison gets wild with some funny signs
9045.9045.9045.Sean Allison gets groin-shot by some funny signs
9046.9046.9046.Sean Allison gets lightup-hacked by some funny signs
9047.9047.9047.Sean Allison gets explo-crashed silly by some funny signs
9048.9048.9048.Sean Allison has more funny signs to read, and he therefore decides to require an roommate
9049.9049.9049.Sean Allison gets crotch-bombed by some funny signs
9050.9050.9050.Sean Allison gets crotch-boomeranged by some funny signs
9051.9051.9051.Sean Allison gets crotch-zapped by some funny signs
9052.9052.9052.Sean Allison gets crotch-upblown by some funny signs
9053.9053.9053.Sean Allison gets crotch-knocked by some funny signs
9054.9054.9054.Sean Allison gets crotch-swifted by some funny signs
9055.9055.9055.Sean Allison gets crotch-collapsed by some funny signs
9056.9056.9056.Sean Allison gets an funny sign hangover
9057.9057.9057.Sean Allison has yet another more crazy illegal funny signs
9058.9058.9058.Sean Allison gets some funny signs mayhem of fireworks
9059.9059.9059.Sean Allison sneaks some funny signs in the car
9060.9060.9060.Sean Allison captures some funny signs footage
9061.9061.9061.Sean Allison meets some hot-or-not funny signs
9062.9062.9062.Sean Allison are still having trouble with some funny signs
9063.9063.9063.Sean Allison gets arrested by those funny signs
9064.9064.9064.Sean Allison hacks the cash of funny signs
9065.9065.9065.Sean Allison are still spending too much time of funny signs
9066.9066.9066.Sean Allison glitches some more funny signs
9067.9067.9067.Sean Allison gets paralyzed by some funny signs
9068.9068.9068.Sean Allison glitches another more funny signs
We’re continuing where we had left off.
After already too much hard time of reading too many funny signs, the wait is finally over, and because of that, Sean Allison are about announce that he is going to be hero-brave, as well as famous and fabulous, cause he (at the same time) declares his hero-braveness, by plotting an hero-brave scheme of hero-braveness from bad mood to good mood as well as from sad to fab. So now, without further ado, Sean Allison are about to retreat his hero-brave dreams of hero-braveness, so that he can become hero-brave, famous and fabulous. Well that's enough with the set, so for now, without further ado, let us get into business.
And we’ll continue on…
9069.9069.9069.Sean Allison plots an hero-brave scheme of hero-braveness from bad mood to good mood as well as from sad to fab
9070.9070.9070.Sean Allison gets ready to train his hero-brave career (in the style of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (from 9 June 1948 to 31 August 2001))
9071.9071.9071.Sean Allison makes himself hero-brave so that he can be brave and bold (in the style of official broadcasts from: RTP (from May 1930 to 19 February 1993), RTÉ (from 1 January 1926 to 19 September 1998), RÚV (from 20 December 1930 to 8 October 1986), RTBF (from 18 June 1930 to 11 September 1987), SRG SSR (from 30 September 1922 to 30 August 2006), RAI (from 8 February 1923 to 23 September 1974), RTVE (from 19 January 1937 to 24 January 1990), BBC (from 18 October 1922 to 1 November 1982), YLE (from April 1923 to 31 December 1992), GRF (from June 1884 to 5 April 1987), NRK (from 1 November 1922 to 4 September 1992), DR (from 1 April 1925 to 30 September 1988), VRT (from 18 June 1930 to 24 August 2000), NPO (from 6 November 1989 to 31 August 1995), SRT (from 21 March 1924 to 14 September 2007), and ARD and ORF (from March 1892 to 31 December 1983))
9072.9072.9072.Sean Allison are luckily making it smart (in the style of official broadcasts from: HTV (from 14 January 1958 to 31 December 1992), Yorkshire (from 22 September 1955 to 20 October 1996), Tyne Tees (from 15 January 1959 to 1 September 1996), Granada (from 22 September 1995 to 31 December 1994), Central (from 22 September 1955 to 5 September 1999), Westward/TSW (from 29 April 1961 to 31 December 1992), Southern/TVS (from 30 August 1958 to 31 December 1992), and Thames (from 22 September 1955 to 31 December 1992))
9073.9073.9073.Sean Allison can always be so proud of getting so much time to sphere (in the style of classic Ragdoll Productions episodes prior to 1993 (from the first "Puzzle Party" in 1977 to "1992: Year in Review" on 31 December 1992) (including the old TV-am (from 1 February 1983 to 31 December 1992)))
9074.9074.9074.Sean Allison collects a lots of awesomeness (in the style of Daneboe's classic videos prior to 1 January 2011 (from "Pugzilla" to "Annoying Orange: Wishful Thinking"), Davemadson's classic videos prior to 7 October 2011 (from dnm728's early videos to "The Adventures of Microsoft Sam and Friends - Episode 2: Broadcast News" (alongside some classic TTS-produced video uploads from the early Windows 3.0 beta build 1.11 to 6 October 2011 (including some random-shitting Funny Signs accents of various videos from Daneboe's video archive (from "Pugzilla" to "Annoying Orange: Fake N' Bacon")))))
We’re continuing where we had left off.
Sean Allison are so excited to collect so much hero-braveness, as well as some awesomeness, cause he had successfully turned out to be hero-brave, and due to that, he can't wait to become hero-brave, famous and fabulous, cause Sean Allison will always make his dream come true, just like that. We'll anyway, Sean Allison are obviously interviewed by a machine at the money company. A few minutes later, Gary Gadget and Freddy Ferrick are new anchors, while Conrad Cupman reports of heavy flooding and Sean Allison flubs his farm report.
And we'll continue on…
9075.9075.9075.Sean Allison's typical situation
9076.9076.9076.Sean Allison's training workout
9077.9077.9077.Sean Allison gets a job interview
9078.9078.9078.Sean Allison broadcasts an special bulletin
We're continuing where we had left off.
The next day, Sean Allison refixes his smartphone and are apparently taking a stroll in the town. Well then, at a lucky moment, he luckily meets a beautiful girl named Linnea Allison. Linnea Allison makes her first appearance (since checkpoint #1347 for which Sean Allison were resuming his workout), cause she becomes Sean Allison's girlfriend, so that they can be best friends, just like that. In that case, Sean Allison are getting a psychology treatment by Lori Allison because with 2 problems caused by 4 previous checkpoints (which were 9075, 9076, 9077, and 9078), well besides, Sean Allison consults Lori Allison, a registered therapist, to help him get over his anxieties, and then afterwards, the two friends are getting their first date, well for some reason, Sean Allison are obviously explaining that the Earth needs to be restored back to normal, so that the two can be able to find their way back home to Vienna (which is the capital city of Austria), cause Sean Allison are constantly hoping that he (along with Lori Allison) will both soon guide their way back home to Vienna. At that case, as Sean Allison knows that the starlights are meant for him, Sean Allison (along with Lori Allison) are both constantly wishing that they will hopefully find their way back home to Vienna, well due to that, the two are casually accepting it, so they get it now.
And we'll continue on…
9079.9079.9079.Sean Allison encounters a girlfriend
9080.9080.9080.Sean Allison meets Lori Allison
We're continuing where we had left off.
Sean Allison and Lori Allison are luckily getting reunited with Sophie Baker and Handy Buckles, as well as many of Sean Allison's friends and cousins. They're reunited together cause they're making it a pretty good teamwork. Well anyway, for some reason, Lori Allison wonders what the gang will do today and answers her own question with "I dunno!". Just then, the door opens up, and from the door comes some brand new friends: Julius, Bibi, Remco, Nivea, Biggi, Cy, Fly, Catherine, and many more brand new friends. They join Sean Allison's gang, so without further ado, we're about to introduce Sean Allison and co..
And we’ll continue on…
9081.9081.9081.Sean Allison encounters some friends, by joining them into Sean Allison's gang
9082.9082.9082.Introducing Sean Allison and co.
9083.9083.9083.Sean Allison and co. begins their experience
9084.9084.9084.Sean Allison and co. gets their first start
9085.9085.9085.Sean Allison and co. gets a brand new start
9086.9086.9086.Sean Allison and co. begins a brand new day
9087.9087.9087.Sean Allison and co. opens up Sean Allison's own career
9088.9088.9088.Sean Allison and co. trains their workout
9089.9089.9089.Sean Allison and co. gets ready to declare their hero-bravery of hero-braveness
9090.9090.9090.Sean Allison and co. smooths it up on training from bad mood to good mood, by making it fabulous from sad to fab
9091.9091.9091.Sean Allison and co. makes it hero-brave of becoming brave and bold
9092.9092.9092.Sean Allison and co. are ready to make it frenzy
9093.9093.9093.Sean Allison and co. are 1000% proud of boosting it up pretty good
9094.9094.9094.Sean Allison and co. upgrades their awesomeness
9095.9095.9095.Sean Allison and co. are ready to get going, and with that, they're ready to go for it
We're continuing where we had left off.
Sean Allison and co. are always getting started, cause they're about to get their adventure started right now. Well eitherway, Sean Allison are working all night on a gaming console which will hopefully be the #1 top-selling console all over the world, but just then, while taking the console to the school's science fair, Sean Allison meets an rival named Dave Matson, a mysterious husband claiming to be a time cop from the future. Dave Matson needs to recover a time machine that a wicked scientist had stolen, and eventually, Sean Allison tries to demonstrate the console, but it has been sabotaged by Dr. Muldoon and falls apart, throwing the science fair into chaos, thus Sean Allison leaves while Dr. Muldoon, with the help of an Goomba-look-a-like warthog named Mr. Nrutas, steals the console. He plans to pitch it as his own to an invention company, but fails when he cannot figure out how to turn it on. Sean Allison meets Dave Matson at his house and asks him to repair the console, but Sean Allison demands proof that Dave Matson is telling the truth, so with that, as seriously, Dave Matson does so by taking Sean Allison and all his friends in a time machine ahead off to another planet known as Planet Optimum, which is highly advanced technologically. When they arrive, Sean Allison (who'd been already reunited with his gang) realizes he can simply use the time machine to meet his foster parents; the resulting argument makes them crash, so now, anyway, Dave Matson asks Sean Allison to fix the time machine, and Sean Allison agrees on the condition that Dave Matson has to take him to visit his foster parents afterwards. Reluctantly, Dave Matson agrees and hides Sean Allison and his friends in the garage, but Sean Allison accidentally ends up meeting the rest of Dave Matson's gang. But anyway, Sean Allison are rejoicing back together with his friends, cause they're joining back to Sean Allison's party, and Dave Matson and his gang are also joining Sean Allison's party as well, so without further ado, we gotta go ahead and get started.
And we'll continue on...
9096.9096.9096.Sean Allison and co. meets Dave Matson and co.
We're continuing where we had left off.
So now, anyway, Sean Allison and co. are certainly ready ro get it started, cause they're gonna go ahead and get their adventure started, so for now, they're going to engage some funny signs.
And we'll continue on…
9097.9097.9097.Sean Allison and co. gets the smart workout
9098.9098.9098.Sean Allison and co. has the smart workout in progress
9099.9099.9099.Sean Allison and co. works some smart workout
9100.9100.9100.Sean Allison and co. boosts up some smart workout
9101.9101.9101.Sean Allison and co. gets some good time of smart workout
9102.9102.9102.Sean Allison and co. spends some good time of smart workout
9103.9103.9103.Sean Allison and co. continues their smart workout
9104.9104.9104.Sean Allison and co. handles their smart workout'
9105.9105.9105.Sean Allison and co. teaches some education, as well as some edutainment
9106.9106.9106.Sean Allison and co. makes it perfect of education and edutainment
9107.9107.9107.Sean Allison and co. gets training
9108.9108.9108.Sean Allison and co. practices on training
9109.9109.9109.Sean Allison and co. works the smart training
9110.9110.9110.Sean Allison and co. works some smart training
9111.9111.9111.Sean Allison and co. works more smart training
9112.9112.9112.Sean Allison and co. works some more smart training
9113.9113.9113.Sean Allison and co. has a lot of smart training
9114.9114.9114.Sean Allison and co. does a lot of smart training
9115.9115.9115.Sean Allison and co. does some smart training
9116.9116.9116.Sean Allison and co. are doing some smart training
9117.9117.9117.Sean Allison and co. spends so much smart training
9118.9118.9118.Sean Allison and co. has a lot of smart training to spare
9119.9119.9119.Sean Allison and co. are getting so much smarter
9120.9120.9120.Sean Allison and co. are making it smarter
9121.9121.9121.Sean Allison and co. are so smarter on working the smart training
9122.9122.9122.Sean Allison and co. gets frenzy on working the smart training
9123.9123.9123.Sean Allison and co. are certainly smarter on working the smart training
9124.9124.9124.Sean Allison and co. are seriously doing it perfect on working the smart training
9125.9125.9125.Sean Allison and co. has a lot of exciting smart time to sphere
9126.9126.9126.Sean Allison and co. are spending so much exciting smart time of training
9127.9127.9127.Sean Allison and co. are making it so smarter
9128.9128.9128.Sean Allison and co. are certainly engaging it smarter
9129.9129.9129.Sean Allison and co. are getting it very smarter
9130.9130.9130.Sean Allison and co. are certainly doing it very smarter
9131.9131.9131.Sean Allison and co. are pumping it up very smarter
9132.9132.9132.Sean Allison and co. does it perfect on pumping it up
9133.9133.9133.Sean Allison and co. are making it very smarter
9134.9134.9134.Sean Allison and co. can make it very smarter
9135.9135.9135.Sean Allison and co. are going to earn money
9136.9136.9136.Sean Allison and co. earns some money
9137.9137.9137.Sean Allison and co. learns how to earn money
9138.9138.9138.Sean Allison and co. teaches how to earn money
9139.9139.9139.Sean Allison and co. suggests to earn money
9140.9140.9140.Sean Allison and co. exercises on earning money
9141.9141.9141.Sean Allison and co. makes theirselves brave of earning money
9142.9142.9142.Sean Allison and co. are certainly brave of earning money
9143.9143.9143.Sean Allison and co. can make their best
9144.9144.9144.Sean Allison and co. can certainly make their best
9145.9145.9145.Sean Allison and co. releases free though being smarter
9146.9146.9146.Sean Allison and co. gets rescued free just in time
9147.9147.9147.Sean Allison and co. works smarter
9148.9148.9148.Sean Allison and co. are working smarter
9149.9149.9149.Sean Allison and co. can make their best
9150.9150.9150.Sean Allison and co. can seriously make their best
9151.9151.9151.Sean Allison and co. makes theirselves proud
9152.9152.9152.Sean Allison and co. are certainly so proud
9153.9153.9153.Sean Allison and co. are seriously very proud of theirselves
9154.9154.9154.Sean Allison and co. are seriously so much very proud of theirselves
9155.9155.9155.Sean Allison and co. refixes their routine
9156.9156.9156.Sean Allison and co. revamps sucha freshy routine
9157.9157.9157.Sean Allison and co. orders some new stuff
9158.9158.9158.Sean Allison and co. collects a lot of new stuff
9159.9159.9159.Sean Allison and co. resolves the problem
9160.9160.9160.Sean Allison and co. makes it perfect of troubleshooting
9161.9161.9161.Sean Allison and co. reads some funny signs
9162.9162.9162.Sean Allison and co. reads some more funny signs
9163.9163.9163.Sean Allison and co. engages some funny signs
9164.9164.9164.Sean Allison and co. encounters some funny signs
9165.9165.9165.Sean Allison and co. explores some funny signs
9166.9166.9166.Sean Allison and co. engages some more funny signs
9167.9167.9167.Sean Allison and co. encounters some more funny signs
9168.9168.9168.Sean Allison and co. explores some more funny signs
9169.9169.9169.Sean Allison and co. engages some still more funny signs
9170.9170.9170.Sean Allison and co. engages some still another more funny signs
9171.9171.9171.Sean Allison and co. engages the son of some funny signs
9172.9172.9172.Sean Allison and co. engages the son of the son of some funny signs
9173.9173.9173.Sean Allison and co. engages the motherfucking son of some funny signs
9174.9174.9174.Sean Allison and co. engages the son-of-the-motherfucking son of the son of some funny signs
9175.9175.9175.Sean Allison and co. engages some still yet another more funny signs
9176.9176.9176.Sean Allison and co. engages some still yet again another more funny signs
9177.9177.9177.Sean Allison and co. engages some still yet once again another more funny signs
9178.9178.9178.Sean Allison and co. engages some still yet twice again another more funny signs
9179.9179.9179.Sean Allison and co. engages those further adventures of funny signs
9180.9180.9180.Sean Allison and co. engages those more further adventures of funny signs
9181.9181.9181.Sean Allison and co. gets much of reading funny signs
9182.9182.9182.Sean Allison and co. gets too much of reading funny signs
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Trump allies target Mueller team, one by one
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Trump allies target Mueller team, one by one
Trump’s allies have long called for a “cleaning out” of DOJ and FBI, aimed at career officials perceived as hostile to the president. Several of Trump’s top targets have been forced out, including former FBI Director James Comey, his former deputy Andrew McCabe, and former FBI agent Peter Strzok, all of whom worked on the Russia probe.
But the calls for a purge intensified this month after four career prosecutors recommended a sentence of at least 7 years in prison for Trump associate Roger Stone, who was convicted last year of making false statements to Congress, obstruction and witness intimidation.
All four of the Stone prosecutors quit the case after their sentencing recommendation, which followed federal guidelines, was overruled by Attorney General Bill Barr, and one resigned from DOJ altogether.
“It’s totally unclear to me why any members of the Mueller team need to remain in the Trump DOJ,” the pro-Trump conservative blogger Will Chamberlain wrote after news broke of the Stone sentencing recommendation. (Three of the four Stone prosecutors, Aaron Zelinsky, Adam Jed, and Jonathan Kravis, worked for Mueller.)
The MAGA punditry’s outsized influence over the president means their campaign against the so-called Mueller “holdovers” is likely not falling on deaf ears, especially given Trump’s fixation with what his defenders and detractors are saying about his administration in their frequent appearances on his favorite TV programs.
“I think that the White House understands that it has the support of the insurgent conservative punditry in this fight, because we see what the fight is,” said Schlicter, whose recent columns on the subject have run under headlines like “Time for Trump to Get His Godfather On” and “Burn Down the DOJ and Start Over.”
Tom Fitton, the president of the conservative activist group Judicial Watch, tweets several times a day about alleged “deep state corruption” at the Justice Department and last week described Stone’s sentencing recommendation as “Mueller holdover extortion.” Trump retweeted Fitton’s accusations of corruption at DOJ and the need to “clean house” there nearly a dozen times on Wednesday morning alone.
Sam Nunberg, a GOP consultant and former Trump campaign adviser who was interviewed in the Mueller probe, suggested in an interview that the “Mueller team” should not handle any Trump-related matters. And GOP operative Arthur Schwartz, a close friend of Donald Trump Jr. who has been described as the eldest son’s “fixer,” said of the career officials in question: “I think they should all be investigated.” Schwartz was among the group of lawyers who celebrated the president’s Senate acquittal at the Trump hotel in D.C., along with his defense team.
At this point, it’s not clear who is echoing whom. Trump has lambasted the prosecutions of his associates—Stone, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort—as spearheaded by “Mueller people,” and has publicly attacked the judge who oversaw several Mueller-related cases, including Stone’s.
“Is this the Judge that put Paul Manafort in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, something that not even mobster Al Capone had to endure? How did she treat Crooked Hillary Clinton? Just asking!” Trump tweeted last week.
Both the Russia and Clinton email server investigations were reviewed separately by DOJ’s inspector general, who found no evidence that political bias influenced the department’s handling of the probes.
But Attorney General Bill Barr has already launched reviews of the origins of the Russia investigation and the FBI’s handling of Flynn. But his intervention in the Stone case has bought him little reprieve from Trump, whose incessant tweeting on his former aide’s plight spurred Barr to rebuke the president in an extraordinary interview last week on ABC News.
Fitton, a regular guest on Fox News, declined to say in an interview how often he speaks to the White House. But he said his “guess” is that Trump is “hearing all sorts of voices” on this issue.
“This is a straightforward issue,” he said. “The president runs the Justice Department and there are a lot of people who don’t want the Justice Department to investigate Democrats. All of this noise is designed to make it difficult for the Justice Department to investigate Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and those implicated in the illegal spying of Donald Trump.”
Hillary Clinton was investigated and cleared of criminal wrongdoing by the FBI in 2016, and the vice president’s son, Hunter Biden, did not break any laws by sitting on a Ukrainian gas company’s board, according to the former Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko. The Justice Department’s independent Inspector General found more than a dozen errors or omissions in the FBI’s warrant to surveil a Trump campaign adviser, but concluded that the Russia probe was properly predicated and found no evidence that Trump himself was spied on.
To Trump and his allies, though, none of that is enough—any officials associated with the Russia and Mueller probes cannot be fair, they say, and should either be investigated, removed, or both.
“These were Mueller prosecutors, and the whole Mueller investigation was illegally set up based on a phony and now fully discredited Fake Dossier, lying and forging documents to the FISA Court, and many other things,” Trump tweeted on Tuesday morning, incorrectly claiming that a set of raw intelligence reports outlining Trump’s alleged ties to Russia commissioned by Democrats was used to open the FBI’s initial investigation (the inspector general found that the dossier was not used as the basis to open the probe).
“Everything having to do with this fraudulent investigation is badly tainted and, in my opinion, should be thrown out,” Trump wrote.
DOJ veterans say the outrage from the president and his allies reflects a misunderstanding of how the department works—supposed concerns over rogue line attorneys ring hollow given DOJ policies requiring sentencing recommendations to be reached after consultation with high-level leadership, said one former senior national security official.
In the Stone case, prosecutors consulted longtime Barr aide Timothy Shea, recently installed as the new U.S. Attorney in D.C., before submitting the sentencing recommendation. Despite reportedly disagreeing with the prosecutors, Shea did not tell Barr or Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen about the recommendation until after it was submitted to the court, according to the New York Times. Several conservative opinion writers, including the Federalist’s Sean Davis and the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel, accused the prosecutors of essentially going rogue.
But as the Wall Street Journal’s own reporting noted last week, prosecutors rarely diverge from the sentencing recommendations issued by the court Probation Office. And Stone did not strike a cooperation deal with the government that might have softened the prosecutors’ position.
John Dowd, a former Trump lawyer who remains in touch with the White House, characterized the line attorneys in the Stone case as “insubordinate,” and “the same crowd of prosecutors wedded to the Mueller agenda” who need to be “cleaned out” from DOJ.
“And Bill Barr is doing that,” Dowd said.
Pro-Trump commentators have also zeroed in on Brandon van Grack, a prosecutor who was on Mueller’s team and is still handling the Flynn case for the government.
“Why is Van Grack still on this case?” conservative commentator Mollie Hemingway tweeted on Feb. 12. The president’s defenders have accused the FBI of setting a perjury trap for the retired general, and Flynn is now seeking to withdraw his guilty plea on the grounds of alleged prosecutorial misconduct.
Stone, meanwhile, is seeking a new trial altogether. But his complaint isn’t with the prosecutors—it’s with the foreperson of the jury that convicted him on all counts. The foreperson, Tomeka Hart, has since been identified as a one-time Democratic congressional candidate who was critical of Trump on social media. But the defense knew her identity throughout the pre-trial proceedings—where she disclosed her run for Congress—and didn’t challenge her fitness to serve on the jury.
Trump has targeted Hart following Fox News segments about her past criticism of the president. He tweeted on February 13 that she “had significant bias” and that “this is not looking good for the ‘Justice’ department,” and tagged Fox and Friends and Fox News. He also tagged Fox and Friends in a tweet about Hart days later, quoting commentator Andrew Napolitano saying “it’s obvious” Stone should get a new trial due to Hart’s “unambiguous bias.”
Stone is still set to be sentenced on Thursday, Judge Jackson said on Tuesday. But the execution of the sentence will be deferred until the motions for a new trial are resolved, and conservative blogger Mike Cernovich, citing concerns about Hart, told POLITICO that he planned to file to have all the papers related to the Stone jury selection unsealed.
Nunberg, the former Trump aide, noted that he had been questioned by Aaron Zelensky, and pointed to no evidence that the former Mueller team member exhibited any bias.
But for Nunberg — as for the others — mere suspicions were enough to argue for his dismissal.
“I personally liked Aaron,” he said. “I found him highly professional, very smart. They had facts, yes, but I believe that they had an agenda … They were trying to take down Trump.”
Josh Gerstein contributed reporting.
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