Robert Mueller’s “witch hunt” may be over but political commentator and onetime Trump campaign advisor Jerome Corsi isn’t through with Mueller. He claims Mueller’s team tried to pressure him into pleading guilty to two process crimes similar to George Papadopoulos and General Mike Flynn.
Speaking to Breitbart News last Thursday, Corsi said, “I got subpoenaed on August 28. I provided my computers, my laptops, my backup devices, everything, I voluntarily gave to the Special Counsel and to his prosecutors, and from the beginning, they treated me like a criminal.”
Corsi’s attorney, Freedom Watch founder Larry Klayman told The Hill in January that Mueller’s investigation issued a subpoena for documents that was “overly broad” and “part of continued harassment from this committee.”
Corsi went on the offensive and told reporters he and his stepson had been subpoenaed to provide grand jury testimony as part of the Russia probe. As far as it concerns Corsi, they were “looking for anything” they could find.
That subpoena was a part of Mueller’s last-ditch attempt to find anything he could to justify his committees continued existence.
Mueller, according to Corsi, believed he and longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone had advanced knowledge of plans by WikiLeaks to release emails of top Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign officials. Stone emailed Corsi in July 2016 and suggested he should reach out to then-WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange to gain access to these emails.
Both Stone and Corsi denied any wrongdoing with Stone saying, he had “no advanced notice of the source or content or the exact timing of the release of the WikiLeaks disclosures.”
As he did with General Flynn, Mueller angled for a procedural charge since no evidence of collusion presented was to be found.
When Mueller pushed Corsi to sign a plea deal, the conservative commentator filed a complaint with the Justice Department. He told CNN, “They can put me in prison the rest of my life. I am not going to sign a lie.”
In the complaint Corsi’s attorney called on the Justice Department to investigate Muller’s heavy-handed tactics. That complaint reads:
Special Counsel Mueller and his prosecutorial staff should respectfully be removed from his office and their practice of the law and a new Special Counsel appointed who respects and will obey common and accepted norms of professional ethics and the law and who will promptly conclude the so-called Russian collusion investigation which had been illegally and criminally spinning out of control.
Last week, Corsi turned the tables. He filed a $350 million lawsuit against Mueller, the FBI, the CIA, the Justice Department, and several other agencies.
Corsi’s lawsuit reveals the length to which Robert Mueller and members of the Deep State will go to protect their place in Washington. He hasn’t been afraid to say Mueller and others are part of a “politically corrupt justice and intelligence system” that is very, very biased against the Constitution” and President Trump.
Corsi told Jake Tapper of CNN last Friday that he and his family are relieved the Mueller investigation has concluded. “We feel vindicated,” he said, “I did nothing wrong.”
Referring to Mueller’s actions, Corsi slammed the special counsel’s attempt to force him to plead guilty to a crime he didn’t commit. ”I went in there to cooperate with them. They treated me as a criminal,” Corsi said. “I consider this entire investigation to be fraudulent. I’m glad it’s over.”
Freedom Watch’s complaint targets the Justice Department and alleges the Department’s attorneys attempted to coerce him to give false testimony.
The nearly 80-page document asserts the existence of a “slow-motion coup against the president.”
Former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen buckled under the same kind of threat and intimidation but Corsi was not nearly so compliant. The complaint against Mueller states that he “knowingly and deceitfully” threatened to charge Dr. Corsi with an alleged false statement,” unless he agreed to give them “false testimony” against Trump and others.
Perhaps the most telling interview Corsi has given is one with Tucker Carlson of Fox News. He told Carlson that Mueller’s team “was happy” with his answers until he couldn’t “give them what they wanted.”
Call it an investigation or call it a witch hunt, Corsi’s story proves without a doubt – finding the truth was not the main objective of the Mueller investigation from the beginning.
