On Monday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said she would propose a bill to cut off financing for the office of special counsel Jack Smith and his inquiry into former president Donald Trump.
Greene said on the House Floor on Monday, “Today, I’d like to announce that I’m writing an appropriations rider to defund Jack Smith, special counsel, his office, and the investigation.” This is a militarised government effort to remove Donald J. Trump, the country’s foremost political adversary and front-runner for president.
Greene stated there was a double standard between Trump and Democrats who were also found to have removed sensitive material, and that Smith’s probe of Trump was politically motivated.
She declared, “We cannot allow the government to be used as a political weapon.” “I’d want to ask my coworkers to join me in this endeavour. Given that we know there are those who are actually guilty of crimes, we must use the authority of appropriations to stop the weaponization of government.
President Joe Biden’s classified documents were removed while he served as vice president and later discovered in the Penn Biden Centre in Washington, D.C. Special counsel Robert Hur is looking into Biden’s handling of classified documents, and more were discovered at his Delaware home, according to Greene.
“Don’t forget Joe Biden’s documents that are sitting in his garage next to his Corvette where the door opens and closes,” Greene said. “America sees this for exactly what it is and we will not allow it to stand.”
Gaetz (R-Fla.) demanded in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland earlier this week the names of every individual involved in Smith’s office’s work on the Trump case.
“It should be obvious that doing due diligence in vetting an office that has apparently done no vetting of its own personnel, or worse, might affirmatively be seeking to staff with sanctioned lawyers and partisan hatchet-men (and women), is an entirely appropriate purpose and one small reason I am requesting this information,” wrote Gaetz.
The House should act in accordance with its constitutional obligation to perform oversight, said Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.
Biggs stated in a tweet that “Congress can and should hold the Biden DOJ accountable by defunding their efforts during the appropriations process, carrying out the Holman Rule to remove and defund corrupt officials, and conducting oversight on its baseless investigations.”
According to court records, a prominent prosecutor in the case involving the secret documents against Trump was previously chastised for unethical conduct in a federal drug prosecution.
Karen Gilbert, 59, was made to quit as the head of the narcotics division of the Miami U.S. Attorney’s office for her part in secretly taping a defence attorney in 2009, according to court documents. Gilbert now plays a key role in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of former President Trump.
Dr. Ali Shaygan, a Florida family physician, was charged with 141 counts of illegally administering painkillers in this case. Shaygan’s patient James Brendan Downey passed only a few days after he was given a prescription for methadone in June 2007.
The federal government also charged Shaygan with dispensing other prescription medications like Xanax, hydrocodone, and Roxicodone.
Gilbert and her former coworker Sean Cronin thought the defence might have tampered with a witness. R. Alexander Acosta, Gilbert, and Cronin therefore authorised a wiretap of Shaygan’s attorney without the consent of the local US Attorney at the time, which ultimately produced nothing.