‘We Gotta Lock Him Up:’ Biden Calls For Trump’s Imprisonment Two Weeks Before Election Day
President Joe Biden called for former President Donald Trump to be “locked up” while speaking with supporters at a New Hampshire campaign office on Tuesday evening.
“I know this sounds bizarre. It sounds like if I said this five years ago, you’d lock me up,” the president said. “We gotta lock him up.”
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The remark comes just one day after Nathan Wade — a former Fulton County prosecutor and romantic partner of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — told Congressional investigators that Willis’ Office coordinated with the Biden Administration throughout its investigation into the former president. Both Wade and Willis testified, under oath, that they had not coordinated with the federal government, while the Biden Administration also attempted to deny the allegations
Wade stated that Willis had formed a search committee to find a special prosecutor for the Trump case even before she took office on January 1, 2021. The search committee began its work shortly after the November 2020 presidential election, showing Willis’ early focus on prosecuting Trump.
“Absolutely,” Wade responded when asked if there was outreach to him before Willis assumed office. He noted that discussions about his potential role as a special prosecutor began between November 2020 and Willis’ inauguration.
Biden’s calls for Trump’s imprisonment was met with loud cheers and applause from a room full of New Hampshire Democrats.
The Republican nominee was convicted back in May of 34 counts of “falsifying business records” in a highly questionable case that was plagued by political bias and the use of novel legal theories. Bragg has not yet admitted to directly coordinating with the federal government, though a senior Department of Justice official did leave his high-ranking position in order to work as a low-level prosecutor on the Trump case.
In December 2022, Bragg hired former Biden DOJ official Matthew Colangelo to focus on prosecuting white collar crimes in Manhattan. He was immediately assigned to the Trump case, which he prosecuted in court.
Colangelo was not just any DOJ employee by the time he left to join Bragg’s office. He previously served as Acting Associate Attorney General in the early days of the Biden Administration, the third most senior position in the Department of Justice.
He also worked for New York Attorney Letitia James, who launched the highly questionable investigation into Trump surrounding alleged overvaluing of his properties.
In 2018, he was paid for his consulting services to the Democratic National Committee. FEC records show that the DNC Services Corp/Democratic National Committee paid Colangelo two times on January 31, 2018 for a total of $12,000.
At the time, Colangelo was serving in then-New York Attorney General Eric Scheiderman’s office as the deputy attorney general for social justice. He assumed the role after Bragg, who was appointed as chief deputy attorney general at the time.
Just months after Colangelo received the payments from the DNC and joined the New York AG’s office, then-acting New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed a lawsuit against the Trump Foundation.
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