Jerome Corsi must have gotten a lap full of Mickey-D coffee.
Darn that government coercion needing a presidential pardon.
The conservative writer and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi filed a lawsuit on Sunday accusing special counsel Robert Mueller of blackmailing him to lie about President Donald Trump in the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The suit, which seeks $350 million in actual and punitive damages in U.S. District Court in Washington, was filed six days after Corsi entered a formal complaint with the Justice Department alleging prosecutorial misconduct by Mueller.
Corsi, 72, the former Washington bureau chief of the conspiracy website InfoWars, accuses Mueller's office of having illegally leaked secret information from the grand jury investigating Russian election interference.
The suit also accuses the special counsel's office of having threatened him with prison unless he agreed to testify falsely that he served as a liaison between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the Republican political strategist Roger Stone, who was an adviser to Trump's presidential campaign.
Frivolous lawsuits are a feature of #TrumpRussia, but a coup d’etat is a coup d’etat. And then there’s possibilities to shill for a legal defense, since that birther grift seems to not work so well these days. And who doesn’t want to support an oppressed “journalist”.
Corsi’s lawyer Larry Klayman said in a statement sent to Law&Crime:
- Mueller, his staff and the other defendants are allegedly themselves acting in a criminal manner to further their attempted ‘legal coup d’etat’ to remove the president from office by any illegal means.
- Dr. Corsi is fearless and determined to not let this happen and at great risk to himself and his family are standing in the stead of and are resolute for the American people, who voted President Trump into office on November 6, 2018.
Corsi is seeking more than $350 million in damages from Mueller and the government agencies, broken down as “in excess of $100,000,000” for general and compensatory damages, and “in excess of $250,000,000” for punitive damages. He also seeks attorneys’ fees. Corsi claims that he has suffered “severe emotional distress and physical harm,” economic loss,” and damage to his reputation.
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