about a month ago two high-ranking
prosecutors leading the manhattan
district attorney's investigation into
donald trump abruptly resigned
those prosecutors carrie dunn and mark
pomeranz submitted their resignations
after the newly elected d.a indicated
that he had doubts about moving forward
with a case against trump it was a huge
blow to the prosecution and now we have
new details on what motivated their
departures on wednesday the new york
times published the resignation letter
of special assistant district attorney
pomeranz it was sent to manhattan d.a
alvin bragg just last month saying quote
i believe that donald trump is guilty of
numerous felony violations of the penal
law he also wrote i have worked too hard
as a lawyer and for too long now to
now to become a passive participant in
what i believe to be a grave failure of
justice joining me now is glenn
kirschner msnbc legal analyst and a
former federal prosecutor and glenn i
read that letter in shock not just about
the language that he directly used to
get with alvin bragg but about this let
me read this
um this is part of the letter as well in
late 2021 then district attorney
cyrus vance directed a thorough review
of the facts and law relating to mr
trump's financial statements mr vance
had been intimately involved in our
investigation attending grand jury
presentations sitting in on certain
witness interviews and receiving regular
reports about the progress of the
investigation he concluded the facts
warranted prosecution and he directed
the team to present evidence to a grand
jury and to seek indictment of mr trump
and other defendants as soon as reason
to be possible how on earth could alvin
bragg turn down this prosecution
well that is a question joy that the
people of new york and by extension the
people of the nation deserve an answer
to because you know mark pomerance
people should remember he you know he
was a very accomplished federal
prosecutor he headed up the appellate
division at the southern district of new
york u.s attorney's office he then did a
second stint in that office he headed up
the criminal division and in that
capacity he successfully tried mob boss
john gotti he also served as a criminal
defense attorney in white collar cases
and he is universally regarded as a
white collar crime subject matter expert
i mean he knows how to prosecute he
knows a case that can be proved beyond a
reasonable doubt when he sees it and he
makes clear in this letter joy the
evidence supports the conclusion that
donald trump committed felony crimes and
that the evidence can prove him guilty
beyond a reasonable doubt and he said
it's a grave injustice if these charges
aren't brought we're always talking
about how we don't know what's going on
in the department of justice well guess
what we now know what went on inside the
manhattan district attorney's office
they built a case against donald trump
that could and should have been brought
and alvin bragg put a stop to it and we
have no idea why we enjoy wide latitude
when we're exercising prosecutorial
discretion joy i exercised that
discretion for 30 years but you know
what prosecutors can also abuse that
discretion and from the outside given
everything we know
it looks like bragg abused his
discretion and we need to know more
about why he made that decision and
alvin bragg is invited to come on the
show and explain this because it sure
smells like corruption to me michael
cohen testified under oath that donald
trump did exactly what the investigators
found that he did and cyrus vance who
was not exactly aggressive about going
after the trump family let's just be
honest when he was in that job he even
said that he should be prosecuted
something smells corrupt here and i
think it definitely should be
investigated
and the voters of new york should hold
alvin bragg accountable let's move on to
jenny thomas speaking of corruption let
me read this this is a news story that
broke in the washington post late today
virginia jenny thomas the wife of
supreme court justice clarence thomas
urged white house chief mark meadows
chief of staff mark meadows to pursue
unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020
election text show on november 10 after
news organizations that projected joe
biden the winner based on state vote
totals thomas wrote to meadows help this
great president stand firm mark with
lots of exclamation points you are the
leader with him who is standing for
america's constitutional governments in
the precipice the majority knows biden
and the left is attempting the greatest
heist in our history here's what makes
this even more corrupt yes we know that
she's like a q anon right wing looney
tune that she's always been that but
she's married to
one of the justices of the supreme court
and the only justice out of nine who
voted this way the new jane mayer
pointing out he did not recuse himself
he was the only vote to block the
january 6 committee from getting trump's
papers
mark meadows filed a supporting brief
for that and ginny's texts were at stake
this is pure corruption on the part of
the thomases your thoughts
you know joy i don't say this lightly
but based on what we're learning this
feels like a deeply unethical decision
by justice thomas not to recuse himself
from having anything to do with making
decisions about the insurrection because
we now know courtesy of these texts
which really are blockbuster
that jenny thomas was using her position
and her obvious connections to urge mark
meadows to keep donald trump installed
in the presidency
unconstitutional
i don't think a hollywood script writer
could come up with anything like this
and i think that the two natural
questions based on the reporting about
this text exchange between jenny thomas
and mark meadows are one
will the j6 committee subpoena the
spouse of a sitting supreme court
justice or would that be viewed as some
kind of third rail i think you know no
one is above the law i've heard that
before well let's prove it by treating
ginny thomas the way we would treat any
other witness
and beyond because we don't know if
she's just a witness
or she may have some criminal exposure
for what happened on january 6th or what
happened before with respect to
organizing it or what happened after
with respect to either covering it up or
giving aid and comfort to the
insurrectionists which in itself
is a crime but one thing is clear joy
clarence thomas should be nowhere near
sitting as a justice presiding over any
of these decisions but he also voted
literally to protect his own wife's
texts
in that case he himself should perhaps
be subpoenaed let me just for those of
you just to remind you what was at stake
here here's mo brooks talking about what
trump wanted him to do
did he directly tell you
to
fight to decertify the election the 2020
election he did not use the word
decertify he used the word resent and
then immediately removed joe biden i
guess that would be through impeachment
through the recession of the election
results did he directly say that there
should be a new special election for the
presidency
in one of the conversations he mentioned
having a subsequent election for the
presidency okay
i am out of time so i don't even get to
ask you a question i will just say for
our audience in my opinion feels like a
conspiracy smells like a conspiracy
looks like jenny thomas and maybe our
hubby were part of it that's just me i'm
not a lawyer and not a prosecutor glenn
kirschner is but we're out of time so he
can't covet
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