Jeff Sessions' Replacement, Matthew Whitaker, Led Secretive Anti-Dem Group

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Jeff Sessions’ Replacement, Matthew Whitaker, Led Secretive Anti-Dem Group
Acting AG Matthew Whitaker ‘is on record as being more interested in propping up Trump than in upholding the rule of law,’ one Justice Department lawyer says.
Betsy Woodruff,
Asawin Suebsaeng,
Erin Banco,
Will Sommer
11.07.18 10:10 PM ET


Acting Attorney General Mark Whitaker, named to head the Justice Department after Jeff Sessions was fired Wednesday, has a close relationship with President Trump and has expressed hostility toward special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe—which he may now oversee.

“Whitaker is on record as being more interested in propping up Trump than in upholding the rule of law,” one DOJ trial attorney told The Daily Beast. “It’s hard to have confidence that he’ll do anything other than what the president had said in his tweets.”

It’s been a meteoric rise for the 48-year-old Republican, an ex-prosecutor and failed political candidate who less than two years ago was the head of a little-known conservative nonprofit with designs on a judgeship in his home state of Iowa.

Through that nonprofit, and with the help of a PR firm later tied to a bizarre conspiracy theory, Whitaker ran interference for Sessions at one of the most fraught moments in his tumultuous time as attorney general.

In March 2017, The Washington Post reported that Sessions had neglected to tell the Senate at his confirmation hearing about prior conversations he had with the Russian ambassador.

The attorney general came under blistering criticism, especially as he had not yet recused himself from supervising the FBI’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Then Whitaker spoke up. As executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, an organization that served primarily to level ethics complaints against Democrats, he released a statement defending Sessions.

“If we are going to have a national discussion about Senators meeting with ambassadors it is appropriate for all Senators to disclose who they met with so the public, and apparently the media, understand that all Senator Sessions did was his job,” Whitaker said in the statement.

The statement was blasted out to reporters by CRC Public Relations, a conservative group based in Alexandria, Virginia, which represented FACT and Whitaker throughout 2017, according to press releases.

More recently, CRC faced scrutiny and criticism during Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation process for reportedly stoking media interest in a discredited conspiracy theory about Kavanaugh’s chief accuser.

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[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. Well...we're getting outside today. Bundle up and bring your thermos.

[Iliyah]

2. And any word from GOP leaders?

No. This party truly believe that they are above the law. Rules, law, regulations do not pertain to them. They suck.

Vote them out!

[duforsure]

3. He's setting himself up for prison

If he does any thing trump demands done. He's another loyalist who'll ignore the rule of law, just a matter of time. trump will corrupt him in no time to do as he says , or else, then his fate will be set.

[DFW]

4. This is like the end of the film "A Fish Called Wanda"

Crazy Otto ("Don't you EVER call me stupid" ) ends up beings Minister of Justice in Apartheid-era South Africa.

Now, we get him in real life. We just traded the Keebler Elf for Crazy Otto.