We just won big in court. We’ve been fighting for five years regarding the Obama-Biden Administration censoring an official State Department press briefing video to delete an embarrassing admission that the Administration lied about its Iran deal negotiations. The Administration initially claimed the deletion was a “glitch,” but after receiving our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, they admitted it was deliberate. But they refused to provide us any further information, claiming presidential privilege for redacting a key email.
Through our FOIA lawsuit, we discovered an email sent by Jen Psaki – who is now President Biden’s White House Press Secretary, regarding the secret Obama-Biden Administration meeting with Iran. We have the email, but of course, it is missing key information, completely redacted. In a major breakthrough in our case, the federal court ordered the Biden Deep State to produce this email unredacted for court review.
On Friday evening, after reviewing the document itself, the court agreed with our arguments and ordered the Biden State Department to hand over this key email to the ACLJ – now with no redactions – between none other than President Biden’s own White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and other Obama-Biden officials.
This type of behavior from the Deep State doesn’t just stop there. As we previously told you, John Kerry, former Secretary of State under President Obama, along with Robert Malley, who was President Obama’s Middle East advisor, conducted secret meetings with Iran while President Trump was still in office. These Biden Administration officials had meetings with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to undermine the Trump Administration and U.S. foreign policy. We just filed another FOIA lawsuit to uncover the truth behind former Secretary John Kerry’s shadow diplomacy.
The Left only plays by the rules when it suits them. When officials asked for former acting Director of National Intelligence, and now ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security, Ric Grenell’s emails, they were handed over immediately. The double standard is unreal.
ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy Ric Grenell explained:
"We know he [Kerry] has been talking to Zarif. How in the world did he not get prosecuted for this? Why is there not a standard for when we see him clearly violating the law? This is what frustrates many people is that the double standard for violating the law is so atrocious. We have to come to the conclusion that this is strategic and that this is not just an oversight or something that was a mistake. Clearly the Department of Justice is moving towards political prosecutions. Let’s be honest. I think the next step is getting our senators to stop talking and haul these people in and say why aren’t you applying the standard in the same way? Where are our Republican Senators? Don’t come asking for money if you’re not going to do anything when you’re in office."
Ric added:
"Let me be very clear John Kerry was working with the Europeans and Iranians, not in the official back channel, but in an unofficial back channel in a way that undermined the Trump Administration, and he was working with Democrat Senators – I know this to be a fact."
Coincidently, the same people who have deliberately hidden information from the American people are now back in power and trying to negotiate a deal with Iran once again. The Biden Administration is proving that they believe that power and political advantage are more important than American security.
ACLJ Senior Counsel and Director of Policy Harry Hutchison summarized our progress with this particular FOIA request and where we stand in our fight to defeat the Deep State:
"At the ACLJ, we have consistently emphasized several things including the necessity of defeating the Deep State. And we have worked tirelessly to uncover Deep State duplicity. And I think with this particular FOIA request, we have simply scratched the surface of premeditated and deliberate efforts by the Deep State to hide information from the American people. And this move has unleashed a sleeping giant within the bureaucracy, and this means our 5-year-old request is the first of many revelations to come."
We are taking direct action here. We have been dealing with this FOIA request for five years. We finally got the win, but it takes perseverance and focus on the long game for these types of issues. It takes years of work to get to the truth. The Biden Administration will do everything they can to keep this information hidden from you, and they are likely to try to appeal this ruling. But we are ready to take this all the way to the Supreme Court, if need be. The American people will get the answers they deserve.
Today’s full Sekulow broadcast is complete with even more analysis of the court order regarding our FOIA request and the details around John Kerry’s secret meetings with Iran.
After her shocking testimony before Congress yesterday, U.S. Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle has resigned. Will we get answers about the massive security failure that almost resulted in President Donald Trump losing his life? The Sekulow team discusses the USSS director’s resignation, Vice President Kamala Harris securing enough delegates to be the 2024 presidential nominee, the ACLJ’s legal work – and much more.
Apparently, the Secret Service had already increased its efforts to protect President Donald Trump after recent intelligence surfaced of an Iranian plot to assassinate the former President. So why was security so lax in Butler, Pennsylvania? The Sekulow team discusses the massive Secret Service failure, the Republican National Convention, Trump’s pick of Senator J.D. Vance as Vice President, other RNC news, a new ACLJ FOIA against the Biden Administration, the 2024 presidential election – and much more.
President Joe Biden isn’t planning on going anywhere, as more and more within the Democrat Party call for him not to run for reelection. He wrote a letter to Democrats in the House of Representatives calling for unity in the fight to defeat President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. The Sekulow team discusses Biden’s letter and the turmoil surrounding his White House campaign, the reaction to Biden’s interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity, Judge Aileen Cannon’s latest move in Trump’s classified documents case, the ACLJ’s legal work – and much more.
Due to the U.S. Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling, Judge Juan Merchan delayed the sentencing in President Donald Trump’s New York trial until September 18. Will DA Alvin Bragg be forced to reopen the trial after much of his evidence included “official acts” from when Trump was President?
The delayed sentencing date is huge for two reasons. First, much of the far Left hoped that the attention would shift from President Biden’s poor debate performance to Trump’s original sentencing date of July 11. And as we said last week, it will not be good news for President Biden if the media is still talking about replacing him after the long Independence Day weekend.
Right now, the narrative isn’t shifting for Biden. Yesterday, the primary topic at White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s press conference was President Biden’s fitness for office. Also, an internal Democrat election poll was leaked that sounded the alarm for Biden’s reelection in swing states, and Trump is way ahead in fundraising now following the debate.
The second reason that the delayed sentencing is significant comes from Judge Juan Merchan’s letter regarding the delayed sentencing: “The Court’s decision will be rendered off-calendar on September 6, 2024, and the matter is adjourned to September 18, 2024, at 10:00 AM for the imposition of sentence, if such is still necessary, or other proceedings.”
Did you catch the important nugget: “if such is still necessary, or other proceedings”? In other words, the Supreme Court’s decision could derail Bragg’s case altogether. Within hours of the Justices’ decision, Trump’s lawyers contested this issue, setting off the chain of events leading to the delayed sentencing – a lot of movement happened quickly.
Bragg had presented a broad case that ignored expired statutes of limitations and elevated what would have been a misdemeanor into 34 felony counts. Yet by going so broad, Bragg might have tanked his case completely by presenting evidence that would now be considered inadmissible.
Trump’s lawyers filed a brief to have the jury’s verdict vacated, and the other side will be filing a brief in response. Judge Merchan will review the briefs (which the caveat “if such is still necessary” refers to) before the sentencing date. The judge might not have a reason to sentence President Trump at all.
The Biden Administration has come out swinging against the recent videos of President Biden freezing up that are circulating online. The latest video to spark controversy was at the Hollywood fundraiser over the weekend. President Obama took Biden by the wrist and led the President offstage after he froze up and looked lost. Other recent footage includes Biden appearing confused at a D-Day ceremony, an early Juneteenth ceremony, and the G-7 summit.
At a press conference on Monday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed the videos are “cheap fakes.” But are they?
Each of these hiccups occurred at a well-publicized Biden event. They weren’t secret, behind-closed-doors meetings. Everyone witnessed what happened to Biden on the public stage.
Yet instead of simply addressing the freeze-ups as the result of President Biden being an elderly man and that such occurrences are bound to happen, the Administration insists on gaslighting Americans. It wants to spin the narrative as a conspiracy by political opponents to make Biden look weak.
Playing off the term “deep fake,” which refers to AI-generated content, Biden’s handlers are saying the videos in question are manipulated and/or edited, calling them “cheap fakes.” And now the mainstream media is following the White House’s talking points about these videos being fake.
For example, on Sekulow, we played a clip of former White House Communications Director Nicolle Wallace commenting on the controversy, yet MSNBC didn’t show the full footage of Biden’s freezing up at the Hollywood event. Ironically, the real “cheap fakes” are coming from the mainstream media.
ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy Ric Grenell commented on the mainstream media’s attempt to cover up the truth about Biden’s mental state:
The propaganda arm of the Democratic Party, the media in America, is really in a dangerous situation. They are helping a regime – hook, line, and sinker. They always take the side of the Democrats. They push the Democratic messaging; they’ve lost their credibility. I can promise you that dictators around the world are looking at the control that the Democratic Party has over the media in America, and they’re jealous. Because with every single thing we see, we can watch a video, and the media says you’re not watching this the right way or it’s a fake. And so many in the media repeat that.
If you’ve read George Orwell’s 1984, you will be familiar with the famous line: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” In Orwell’s dystopian novel, the government controls all truth regardless of what the people have seen and heard for themselves. The Biden Administration is using the mainstream media to enact the same Orwellian tactics on the public. It is even using Orwellian Newspeak terms like “cheap fake.”
The White House will do its best to spin the truth about President Biden, but the American people can watch the videos and decide for themselves.
We just won big in court. We’ve been fighting for five years regarding the Obama-Biden Administration censoring an official State Department press briefing video to delete an embarrassing admission that the Administration lied about its Iran deal negotiations. The Administration initially claimed the deletion was a “glitch,” but after receiving our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, they admitted it was deliberate. But they refused to provide us any further information, claiming presidential privilege for redacting a key email.
Through our FOIA lawsuit, we discovered an email sent by Jen Psaki – who is now President Biden’s White House Press Secretary, regarding the secret Obama-Biden Administration meeting with Iran. We have the email, but of course, it is missing key information, completely redacted. In a major breakthrough in our case, the federal court ordered the Biden Deep State to produce this email unredacted for court review.
On Friday evening, after reviewing the document itself, the court agreed with our arguments and ordered the Biden State Department to hand over this key email to the ACLJ – now with no redactions – between none other than President Biden’s own White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and other Obama-Biden officials.
This type of behavior from the Deep State doesn’t just stop there. As we previously told you, John Kerry, former Secretary of State under President Obama, along with Robert Malley, who was President Obama’s Middle East advisor, conducted secret meetings with Iran while President Trump was still in office. These Biden Administration officials had meetings with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to undermine the Trump Administration and U.S. foreign policy. We just filed another FOIA lawsuit to uncover the truth behind former Secretary John Kerry’s shadow diplomacy.
The Left only plays by the rules when it suits them. When officials asked for former acting Director of National Intelligence, and now ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security, Ric Grenell’s emails, they were handed over immediately. The double standard is unreal.
ACLJ Senior Advisor for National Security and Foreign Policy Ric Grenell explained:
"We know he [Kerry] has been talking to Zarif. How in the world did he not get prosecuted for this? Why is there not a standard for when we see him clearly violating the law? This is what frustrates many people is that the double standard for violating the law is so atrocious. We have to come to the conclusion that this is strategic and that this is not just an oversight or something that was a mistake. Clearly the Department of Justice is moving towards political prosecutions. Let’s be honest. I think the next step is getting our senators to stop talking and haul these people in and say why aren’t you applying the standard in the same way? Where are our Republican Senators? Don’t come asking for money if you’re not going to do anything when you’re in office."
Ric added:
"Let me be very clear John Kerry was working with the Europeans and Iranians, not in the official back channel, but in an unofficial back channel in a way that undermined the Trump Administration, and he was working with Democrat Senators – I know this to be a fact."
Coincidently, the same people who have deliberately hidden information from the American people are now back in power and trying to negotiate a deal with Iran once again. The Biden Administration is proving that they believe that power and political advantage are more important than American security.
ACLJ Senior Counsel and Director of Policy Harry Hutchison summarized our progress with this particular FOIA request and where we stand in our fight to defeat the Deep State:
"At the ACLJ, we have consistently emphasized several things including the necessity of defeating the Deep State. And we have worked tirelessly to uncover Deep State duplicity. And I think with this particular FOIA request, we have simply scratched the surface of premeditated and deliberate efforts by the Deep State to hide information from the American people. And this move has unleashed a sleeping giant within the bureaucracy, and this means our 5-year-old request is the first of many revelations to come."
We are taking direct action here. We have been dealing with this FOIA request for five years. We finally got the win, but it takes perseverance and focus on the long game for these types of issues. It takes years of work to get to the truth. The Biden Administration will do everything they can to keep this information hidden from you, and they are likely to try to appeal this ruling. But we are ready to take this all the way to the Supreme Court, if need be. The American people will get the answers they deserve.
Today’s full Sekulow broadcast is complete with even more analysis of the court order regarding our FOIA request and the details around John Kerry’s secret meetings with Iran.