You know what happened here?

A US Attorney is investigating a bribery scheme involving contributions in exchange for a presidential pardon.

All the dates are redacted.

BUT the **media** is assuming it was Trump being lobbied for the pardons.

https://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/files/20gj35%20Partial%20Unsealing%20Order.pdf

That US Attorney investigating these allegations seated a grand jury and this is about the public release of a *status report* on that grand jury's investigation, which appears to still be active.

This is mindblowing.

I'm racking my brain right now trying to remember the last time ANYBODY not only PUSHED for the public release of an active grand jury's status report to the court, it was actually GRANTED.

I don't recall this EVER having happened in the past.

Recall that a grand jury's work is so secret, when a US Attorney seats one to investigated criminal allegations, **no public announcement is ever made by the DOJ** when it happens. Later, they **might** decide to disclose an investigation has started.

2 examples involving current AG William Barr:

Remember when the Democrats in the House voted to hold the Attorney General in contempt because he refused to BREAK THE LAW & let them see unredacted material from ongoing grand jury investigations in the Mueller report?

2nd example: About 3 weeks ago, Barr publicly revealed he had **already** assigned several US Attorneys to investigate federal election criminal allegations from the 2020 election, and there likely would be more.

They weren't announced when they began.

Barr also only spoke in the most **general** terms.

He gave no details about which particular US Attorneys for which particular federal districts had been assigned to these federal election crime investigations, or the status of the grand juries involved.

Here someone **asked** the court overseeing this grand jury investigation into a presidential pardon lobbying/bribery scheme to consider **unsealing** the grand jury's status report.

This does not happen without Barr's approval.

Remember, Barr didn't budge when Congress spent MONTHS loudly yelling he MUST show them the unredacted grand jury material contained in the Mueller Report.

Here the DOJ has acquiesced to a request to publicly release a redacted grand jury status report of an explosive case.

Note the DOJ **itself** produced the redacted version of the grand jury status report. All the relevant names and dates are redacted.

Federal investigators seized over 50 electronic devices from the offices of two lawyers involved in the alleged lobbying/bribery for a pardon.

The bulk of the court's ruling okaying the public release of the grand juries status report deals with explaining why the attorney-client privilege does not cover the communications the gov't found where the scheme was discussed among the participants.

The key reason...

...the court gives for deciding attorney/client privilege didn't apply to the emails is because the 2 lawyers involved sent or forwarded those emails with their client to a THIRD PARTY who was **not** their client.

If these communications about the lobbying/bribery for pardons scheme was **truly** confidential client stuff, they wouldn't have been including someone who **WASN'T** their client in the conversations.

So the federal investigators can proceed & show this stuff to the jury.

That's where this investigation stands at the present time.

The fact that the media **instantly** leaped to assuming this is a bribery-for-pardon scheme involving the Trump administration is their own fault.

There is NOTHING unredacted in this filing that points to Trump.

In fact, you don't even have to be president YET to be involved in a bribery-for-pardon scheme. You can be a candidate for president and be approached by people promising significant contributions to your campaign in exchange for a pardon/reduction of sentence.