Cohen worked on multiple #mafia cases & prosecutions of violent street #gangs.

The 3d individual placed on leave -- a member of the office's #civil division -- posted about #ElonMusk & #EdMartin, a #Jan6 advocate, leader of the Stop the Steal movement & #Trump's nominee for US attorney in Washington, DC.

A spox for the U.S. Attorney's Office for #SDNY declined to comment.

@EmmaSofia

It reminded me of how he sat in the dining room watched on TV as his #MAGA #sturmabteilung violently assaulted the Capitol Police & congress people ran & hid in fear of their lives on #Jan6.

#ElissaSlotkin’s formula has never been a secret. Her campaign for #Senate last year—essentially a scaled-up version of her 3 heavily contested & tactically celebrated campaigns for the #House—was built around one organizing theme: the middle class. Everything she talks about, be it #health-care costs or the #Jan6 #insurrection, comes back to the #economic security of everyday Americans.

The top agent at #FBI’s #NY field office said in an email Mon that he had been forced out of his job. His departure follows clashes w/ #DOJ ofcls over #Trump admin directives.

The veteran agent, James E. Dennehy, was told to retire from leading the FBI’s largest field office, delivering another blow to the senior ranks of the FBI. Dennehy… had angered Trump admin ofcls by supporting bureau leaders who resisted turning over the names of those who investigated #Jan6.

On his show, Bongino embraced #ConspiracyTheories about supposed complicity of the #FBI in the #Jan6, 2021, attack; called for investigating & imprisoning fmr Presidents Barack #Obama & Joe #Biden; & discussed his own belief in the "spirit realm" & his view that some #Democrats were infected with "demon energy."

@shoq

>> If TWO #Democratic presidents (#Obama and #Biden) — both of whom knew about Trump's #Russia connections — did nothing to save us, there is really nothing left that Democrats as a political party have to offer us.

The mantra should have been "When They Go Low…" … We Go Ballistic — right from the #Obama years.

When #Biden got a chance, he had bipartisan public support after #Jan6 #insurrection.

Yet, he chose #Garland as his AG and THEN cut off his balls

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/president-elect-biden-wary-trump-focused-investigations-sources-say-n1247959

But #Trump himself did not speak to that issue when he signed the proclamation issuing the #pardons, & it has left his own admin & the courts struggling to divine what was in his head…. []

Asst US Atty Blackwell said the #DOJ’s understanding of Trump’s #pardon had *evolved* in recent wks — but she did not say how or why. She said this shift was the reason DOJ had moved in recent days to drop a slew of other cases against #Jan6 defendants who were on the hook for other federal #felonies.

…At the heart of the controversy is the vague language of #Trump’s mass #pardons for #Jan6 *rioters*. He granted #clemency to anyone “convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.”

Jan 6 defendants have repeatedly argued that the language is so broad it covers other #crimes that have nothing to do w/Jan 6 but were discovered during the vast #criminal probe stemming from the Capitol attack.

3 weeks ago, the #DOJ was emphatic: #Trump may have pardoned Kentuckian Dan Wilson for #crimes he committed at the Capitol on #Jan6, but that #pardon did not extend to his unrelated conviction for illegally storing #firearms at his home.

Then, on Tues, the US atty in DC [#EdMartin] reversed course, saying it had “received further clarity” about Trump’s true intent, which included pardoning Wilson for the #gun case. Prosecutors did not explain how they arrived at this new “clarity.”