'Disturbing': Defense lawyer says DOJ acting like 'Trump's personal attorney and PR firm'
Criminal Defense Attorney Stacy Schneider accused the Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump of acting well beyond its scope in the wake of the release of incriminating Epstein files.
“It's like the Justice Department is almost acting like Trump's personal attorney and PR firm,” said Schneider, speaking of the department’s statement attempting to defend Trump from the most damning of information trickling out this week.
After posting an additional 30,000 pages, the U.S. Department of Justice posted on X that: “Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the F.B.I. right before the 2020 election."
The DOJ made clear to debunk one of their own files, allegedly containing a letter from convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to another Larry Nasser, a medical physician who worked with the women's national gymnastics team where he sexually abused some of the top gymnasts in the world. The DOJ later stated the letter it included in its own release was fake.
“The claims,” the DOJ's X post continued, “are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”
“They got on this right away as soon as this got released. Yet they're behind on meeting their statutory obligation to release the file on Friday,” Schneider pointed out to a panel on CNN's Erin Burnett Outfront. “And that they spent that amount of time to jump on it, correct it and protect the president. That's not what a document release is all about.”
“Bill Clinton’s photos got released and there was nothing, and they didn't bother to give any context to those at those were innocent photos of him sitting in a swimming pool. He wasn't doing anything wrong. No one made a statement on behalf of Bill Clinton. Yet the Justice Department, which is supposed to be involved in justice for victims and citizens of the United States, is working on the justice of protecting the president's image. And it's bizarre and disturbing.”
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