By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-06 16:16:34 | Updated at 2025-01-10 16:40:32
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DOJ Lawyer Who Demanded the FBI SWAT Raid on Mar-a-Lago Decides to Spend More Time Doing Something Else
Redstate ^ | 01/05/2025 | streiff
Posted on 01/06/2025 8:12:21 AM PST by SmokingJoe
The Department of Justice official who pushed for the armed raid on Mar-a-Lago, which ended up with documents that were available for the asking and a chance to riffle through Melania's underwear drawer, has retired. Jay Bratt, a 30-plus-year veteran of the Department of Justice, has tendered his resignation, saying staying on "wasn't worth it."
But three sources familiar with the move described it to SpyTalk as a significant and even chilling event previewing a potential exodus of seasoned government lawyers and FBI agents who fear the wrath of Pam Bondi, Trump ’s pick for attorney general, Kash Patel, his intended nominee for FBI Director, and their expected army of MAGA loyalists in line to fill out top posts.
“They’re forcing him out. There isn’t any doubt that, like [FBI Director Chris] Wray, he’s leaving to get ahead of the axe,” said one former Justice official who attended a farewell party for Bratt at the Justice Department’s seventh floor media center on Friday.
According to the report, Bratt, a senior executive service member, expected to be fired by incoming Attorney General Pam Bondi, and he would face a long-running and expensive "wrongful dismissal" lawsuit to be allowed to retire a la Andrew McCabe.
According to books and reporting on the issue, the FBI did not want to conduct a SWAT-style raid with shoot-to-kill orders on Mar-a-Lago, but Bratt insisted; see The Battle Over Raiding Mar-a-Lago: Some FBI Officials Were Concerned About the DOJ's Ultimate Goal.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fbi; jaybratt
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1 posted on 01/06/2025 8:12:21 AM PST by SmokingJoe
To: SmokingJoe
Anyone want to bet he leaves the country for Ukraine?
2 posted on 01/06/2025 8:13:36 AM PST by Zathras
To: SmokingJoe
This jerk needs an IRS enema every year for the rest of his life.
3 posted on 01/06/2025 8:13:52 AM PST by Skwor
To: SmokingJoe
Hopefully in solitary in a dungeon in the DC jail system.
4 posted on 01/06/2025 8:14:05 AM PST by AndyJackson
To: SmokingJoe
...a significant and even chilling event previewing a potential exodus of seasoned government lawyers and FBI agents...
We don't want or need that caliber of "seasoned" government lawyers and FIB agents.
5 posted on 01/06/2025 8:15:35 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
To: SmokingJoe
They struck the king and failed, so they are bugging out before they get fired and keep whatever benefits they think they would lose if they got fired.
6 posted on 01/06/2025 8:15:42 AM PST by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
To: SmokingJoe
Another vulgar partisan hack resigns. These are the people who turned the FBI into the Democrat Party brown shirts. They violated the Constitution and they ought to be prosecuted.
7 posted on 01/06/2025 8:16:10 AM PST by Obadiah
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