BREAKING: Trump gets NIGHTMARE UPDATE in Criminal Case!!

Donald Trump just got nightmare news in. his criminal prosecution of Don Lemon. and others who were with Don Lemon in. Minnesota during the Trump invasion of. Minneapolis and St. Paul and other areas. with the Ice and Border Patrol Gustapo. several months back. The news is that. the federal judge is now ordering the. grand jury materials which would. otherwise stay secret to be submitted in. camera before the federal judge for her.

review. In other words, what we've been. seeing now take place across this. country as the presumption of regularity. once afforded to the DOJ has been. utterly destroyed by the Trump regime's. corruption and coverups. We're seeing it. play out in this case where the federal. judge said balancing the competing. interests of maintaining secrecy for. grand jury materials against whether a. ground may exist to dismiss the. indictment because of a matter that.

occurred before the grand jury. The. court agrees with the defendants that an. inc camera review of the grand jury. materials is appropriate under rule 6E. and necessary to rule on their. objections to magistrate judge Miko's. order. Interestingly, the magistrate. judge actually ruled not to review the. grand jury materials. The magistrate. judge isn't an article three judge and. ultimately it's the federal judge's call.

if you object to the magistrate judge's. order. That's what Don Lemon and the. other defendants did here. And there's. over a a dozen uh almost two dozen uh. defendants who have been brought into. this criminal case. uh and uh but the. most prominent one being Don Lemon but. you've also had Nikim Levy Armstrong. prominent journalist and others um who. were at that church at the time and the. Trump regime said ah you invaded the. church and they said no we were. reporting on what was actually taking. place and there were protests and this.

is what journalists and uh reporters uh. do um but I think this is what we if you. go back to when we were doing this. analysis what we've seen over and over. again when the federal judge is able to. review the grand jury material in. camera, which means the judge will get. to look at it. It doesn't get published. publicly yet. The judge will take the. first review of it. We've generally seen. the Trump regime DOJ engaging in grand.

jury misconduct in such a uh wide. ranging amount of cases. I mean, this is. obviously a very high-profile one, but. there are mediumprofile cases and cases. that are less well-known where the same. rampant grand jury misconduct has been. uh found. I'm thinking about a lot of. cases in Chicago, but really throughout. this country uh as well. And so the. federal judge will look at this material. and we'll see did the prosecutors.

uh manipulate the grand jury, fabricate. information before the grand jury, engage in something called vouching. where they say, "This is a good case. We've got good evidence that I'm not. going to show you. We'll we'll show you. later, but I'm telling you, we need your. help on this one." Um, were they. providing incorrect legal instructions? And there's a lot of red flags in this. one because we all saw the tape, you. know, of Don Lemon and a lot of these.

defendants. Like, it's on video. And so, we could all see it and we're like, okay, there's not a crime on the tape. So, did you show the grand jury the. tape? Did the grand jury know there was. a tape? Did you explain the First. Amendment implications, DOJ, when you. met with the grand jury to get the. indictment? Are they aware of First. Amendment issues and First Amendment. defenses, or did you just have an FBI. agent tell a one-sided story of event.

knowing that the video was exculpatory. and not show it? I want to bring in. Harry Litman from the Talking Feds. YouTube channel, Talking Feds Substack, and Talking Feds podcast. And Harry, there has to be this threshold finding. by a federal judge to request grand jury. material. What's fascinating to me is. you almost wonder Harry why didn't. federal judges always request the grand. jury materials but because the. presumption of regularity was such that. we trusted the DOJ.

that was never really a thing. I mean it. was always viewed as a secret. proceeding. We never said ah you can't. trust them. They're always going to. fabricate evidence. But it's a. fascinating concept because my own view. is like we should always what's what's. the harm at all if the judge just looks. at it, you know, just makes the call. But there was this presumption that the. DOJ that the good guy that they were the. good guys in theory, not always, but you. know, and that they would follow the law. or at least follow the presumption of.

conduct themselves with this. presumption. Harry, what do you make of. this all? >> Yeah, look, so but in theory, the jury. is supposed to be the grand jury, a. black box. You don't know why they. decided, but it's just as you say. It's. about the classic case for presumption. of regularity that you may not pierce. unless you really got something. concrete. It's now happened in case. after case. And moreover, in case after. case, the DOJ has made just elementary.

blunders in the grand jury, as you say, uh vouching, possibly um mi. misinstructions. Uh we have in the the reflecting pool. case there there's going to be an effort. to look at what happened there because. there may have been faulty instructions. on the key element of damages. And it. seems to happen, it's not simply that. it's kind of amateur hour at the DOJ cuz.

the pros have left the building, but. also it seems to happen. disproportionately. with these obviously. political high-profile prosecutions that. the that Trump and now Blanch and others. really want to make a big deal of. So, you know, remember Don Lemon, that was. that was a personal kind of cause for. Pam Bondi. she came to um Minnesota and.

it was always. had the potential for a total crash and. burn because the thrust of Lemon's. defense from the start has been I'm was. covering news here and and of course I. was speaking to some of the people who. were in demonstrators. Guess what? That's how uh journalists gather news. and that aspect of things they they. really are going to need in court if.

they can ever bring it through to uh. completely separate out his first. amendment activity. But likewise in the. grand jury, he has made uh a motion to. dismiss on three different bases. One of. them, and it's joined by some 45 news. organizations, is just this. This is the. criminal prosecution, a first amendment. activity. You may not do that uh.

government. And then Lemon is saying, and you know, he's joining a large club. This is a vindictive reprisal. prosecution. Donald Trump doesn't like. me. And in 2026 in this Department of. Justice or 2025, that's a good enough. reason to find yourself uh getting mug. shots and and having to show up in. court. And you know, I was a prosecutor. for many years and as you know, and.

these kinds of motions would come in and. they really would provoke, I think, from. prosecutors and the court a kind of. Yeah. Yeah. Every every defendant feels. that they're being railroaded. Except. now we have a series of defendants who. are being railroaded, have been. railroaded. And by railroaded, I mean. they didn't have the facts and the law, and they did it for panally improper.

reasons, like whether you're in uh the. doghouse, whatever it takes to get there. with Donald Trump. So from the start, this has been especially for Lemon and. one other colleague uh the the possible. very vulnerable um situation that could. end in another debacle and. embarrassment. But I think the bottom. line I've I've read uh Lemon's papers. and you know I think it's arguable that.

in a DOJ that enjoyed the presumption of. regularity. a judge might kind of gloss over it and. say no if you have some points you'll. make them a trial if the jury believes. you you'll be acquitted. But these guys. have really lost their reputation. And. especially, by the way, in Minnesota. where, you know, the the whole ICE. operation was so uh chilling, over the. top, and replete replete with lies.

Again, the situation of, oh, they were. resisting arrest and then it turned out. not to be and they were um releasing. them. So, um, we've known from the start. this would be Lemon's TAC and and we've. known from the time of the arrest, man, this is really unusual stuff. But the. fact that the dis that the magistrate. and the now the district court is saying. Pierce, I'm going to look at that.

transcript. Something they really do or. certainly used to do very rarely. Uh, this is the potential. It it was at this. point that other cases have been. dismissed and this has the potential of. being a real debacle because you have. these high-profile cases and these new. recruits or maybe true believers who. really want to get the job done for Pam. Bondi or Todd Blanch or Donald Trump and.

they go too far in the grand jury. They. vouch, as you say, or smush over things. or misinform. And every time that. happens, it's just head spinning. It's. happened in this administration. easily 10 times as much as I've seen in. my entire career before it. >> We're seeing this nationwide. I want. that I want our audience to know that as. you point out I mean we're seeing this.

>> behavior exist where there have been uh. very serious prosecutions that have been. dismissed massive fraud cases and. everyone's presumed innocent Harry but. um you know there are cases you know. these are the high-profile ones that we. talk about a lot but there are lots of. cases where there seem to be some pretty. bad behavior I mean death cases other. things where you've seen, you know, cases thrown out on technicalities under. this Trump regime because they make a.

lot of errors and they make a lot of uh. and and they exist with such intentional. malice that and they're dumb. So, it's a. combination of incompetence and malice, it's easy to it's easy to smoke out. and. competent criminal defense lawyers and. public defenders, federal public. defenders who are smart. They get it. They see this type of stuff all the time. and they're like, "What? What' you. what'd you do?" And you call it out and.

it's it's just it's it's sad to see as a. lawyer lawyers behave maliciously and. incompetently. And you look at like. they're they're evil and they're dumb. It's like a really bad combination for a. lawyer. Anything else you want to say, Eric, before we go? >> Well, I I just want to say I'm sure I. know you didn't exactly mean this, but. we're not really talking about. technicalities because when you Yes, there are things they don't do right. They don't dot their eyes and cross.

their tees. They are amateur-ish. But. when you take, you know, the grand jury. we already know is not as much of a. bullwark as people often believe. Uh but. when you take even that um lower wall. and then just you know deceive or. hoodwink or or rush or do things in the. grand jury to make them bring charges in. a in a fundamentally having just failed.

to follow the rules. The rules are like. first grade textbook that you know that. that you learn. And so it often means. not just oh you didn't uh do the. instructions at the right time. It often. means that you basically and you're all. alone there. No defense lawyer etc. You. basically kind of covered over your own. weakness or vouched for things and. that's serious because otherwise a grand. jury might actually have not gone.

forward. So, uh, you know, as these. things come out, they're and and you're. right, all over the country that that. big case in Chicago. They they really. are grave as well as. stupid. >> Everybody, make sure you subscribe to. Harry Litman's YouTube channel. It's. called Talking Feds. Just search Talking. Feds and tell Harry in the comments I. say hello. Thanks, Harry. >> Thank you, Ben. >> Breaking news right now. My brothers and. I wrote a book. It's called WTF America.

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