Trump impeachment counsel Ken Starr in a number of reports is revealed as the skeevy operator reminiscent of the salacious Starr Report footnotes that Brett Kavanaugh helped craft.
Decent humans don’t say sorry like this: “I’m apologizing to you for him. This is it.”
Starr’s role in the Jeffrey Epstein plea deal allowed him to evade prosecution for what now seems to be the deep networks of criminal behavior and obstruction of justice.
In Perversion of Justice the Miami Herald reporter Julie K Brown writes about Starr’s role in securing the secret 2008 sweetheart deal that granted Epstein effective immunity from federal prosecution. The author, who is credited with blowing open the cover-up, calls Starr a “fixer” who “used his political connections in the White House to get the Justice Department to review Epstein’s case”.
Perversion of Justice will be published next week. The Guardian obtained a copy.
When Epstein’s lawyers appeared to be failing in their pressure campaign, with senior DoJ officials concluding that Epstein was ripe for federal prosecution, Starr pulled out the stops. Brown discloses that he wrote an eight-page letter to Mark Filip, who had just been confirmed as deputy US attorney general, the second most powerful prosecutor in the country.
Filip was a former colleague of Starr’s at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis. Brown writes that Starr deployed “dramatic language” in the letter reminiscent of the Starr report, his lurid and salacious case against Clinton that triggered the president’s 1998 impeachment.
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Judi Hershman, a former advisor of the conservator attorney Ken Starr, is ready to get some shit off her chest.
In a Medium post published Monday, Hershman expounded on her frustration with Trumpism and its followers—namely her former employer, whom she accused of being a catalyzing force behind some of the worst chapters in contemporary politics. She points to Starr’s central role in the Clinton impeachment investigation as well as his participation in the sweetheart deal granted to convicted pedophile Jeffery Epstein as two of the most notable examples.
“It took me 20 years to pull my head out of the proverbial sand, but I can see clearly now all the harm Ken Starr has done from the 1990s and now beyond as he reaches for Mike Pence’s presumed coattails,” Hersman said, referring to Starr’s plans to appear this weekend at the annual Family Leadership Summit, where the former vice president will also be speaking.
Hershman’s lays out the receipts of Starr’s deviousness quite plainly, beginning with an anecdote about Starr and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh was just a lawyer when Hershman met him 20 years ago, when they were both working with Starr on the investigation into President Clinton’s relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Hershman, who helped prep Starr present his findings before Congress, recalled an incident in which a furious Kavanaugh began “badgering” her and “invading” her space, pointing his finger in her face and seething.
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24 years after the fact, the final shoe has dropped on the Clinton impeachment farce which was orchestrated by a wretched assemblage of preening and pious hypocrites from the odious Lucianne Goldberg and Linda Tripp to Gingrich and Starr’s team of little Cotton Mathers. (2)
If there was justice in this world these people would spend the rest of their lives on their knees begging
@MonicaLewinsky for forgiveness. Starr is a man beneath contempt. Shame on him
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