Former President Donald Trump has been cleared of not less than one of many many nuisance expenses Democrats have thrown at him since he left workplace in 2020.
After a prolonged, four-year evaluation, a Division of Justice watchdog has formally discovered that Trump didn’t improperly affect the FBI’s choice to maintain its headquarters in Washington, D.C., as an alternative of transferring it to Virginia or Maryland, in accordance with a DOJ report.
Speak of transferring the FBI out of the famed J. Edgar Hoover Constructing in downtown D.C. began 20 years in the past and in 2014, the bureau started critically contemplating transferring to new places of work.
The preliminary plan was to show the constructing over to a developer, which might then construct a brand new workplace complicated in no matter location the bureau finally selected for its new facility. The deal was labeled an “alternate procurement.”
However an issue arose with the plan. The Normal Providers Administration ultimately realized that the property in D.C. wouldn’t cowl the price of constructing a brand new facility, and the feds can be caught paying the extra prices. So it was not going to finish up being an “alternate” in spite of everything.
This willpower despatched the FBI to develop a brand new proposal. They wrote up a plan to raze the Hoover constructing and construct their new facility proper there on the identical plot of land.
That is the place the conspiracy theorists within the Democrat Get together kicked into motion.
Democrats started accusing Trump of meddling within the FBI’s plans to maneuver to a suburban campus throughout a gathering in January of 2018 that included members of the GSA, the FBI and the Trump White Home.
“He was instantly concerned with the choice to desert the long-term relocation plan and as an alternative transfer forward [with the alternate plan],” the conspiracy theorists complained in an October 2018 letter to the GSA.
It wasn’t simply that Democrats felt Trump was someway “improperly” concerned within the discussions on the FBI’s transfer, however they insisted that Trump meddled so he may generate profits.
“He mustn’t have performed any function in a willpower that bears instantly on his personal monetary pursuits with the Trump Resort,” they wrote.
So, what proof did the Oversight and Assessment Division of the Department of Justice Workplace of the Inspector Normal discover?
Zip, zero, nada.
Within the division’s October report, they stated they discovered nothing to substantiate the wild-eyed claims of the Democrat accusers.
“Particularly, we discovered no proof that, in making the choice to hunt to have the brand new FBI headquarters stay at its present JEH website, Director [Christopher] Wray or others on the FBI thought of the placement of the then-named Trump Worldwide Resort or how then-President Trump’s monetary pursuits might be impacted by the choice,” the report reads.
For his half, Wray stated he didn’t suppose there was any strain coming down from the White Home on the matter.
“I didn’t really feel pressured. I didn’t really feel bullied,” Wray instructed the investigators. He added that Trump wasn’t actually concerned within the plans in any respect, and the choices weren’t “pushed by or primarily based on … something the President stated or needed.”
“There was no strain to go in a selected path. There was no requirement to remain within the present location. The Director concluded that the President had a subject that was in his component, he is aware of constructing. He was excited and engaged concerning the matter,” the report notes.
“There was nothing inappropriate or improper. The President stated go forth and make plans,” the report concluded.
It’s simply one other instance of how the Democrats have weaponized each section of the federal institution to assault, harass and put on Trump all the way down to destroy him in thoughts, physique and spirit, to not point out financially. Democrats don’t need him merely eradicated from ever working for workplace once more, they need him completely destroyed. And make no mistake, additionally they need this for each single one in every of his colleagues, supporters, and his “MAGA” voters.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.