Guest post by Joe Hoft
Matthew Whitaker, the new Acting AG who replaced Jeff Sessions after Sessions turned in his resignation Wednesday afternoon, is a former Iowa Hawkeye Tight End in college who played in the Rose Bowl. Let’s hope he pancakes the Deep State defenders.
Whitaker is also taking over Rosenstein’s job overseeing the Mueller witch hunt. He is described as a “Trump loyalist” who has been privately described as the West Wing’s “eyes and ears” in the Justice Department, says the New York Times.
In August of 2017, Matthew Whitaker penned an op-ed for CNN titled, “Mueller’s Investigation of Trump is Going Too Far” wherein he argued the Special Counsel is roving outside of his jurisdiction to investigate Trump-Russia collusion.
And there’s more…
in July 2016, before the presidential election, Matthew Whitaker penned an opinion piece for USA today where he argued that Hillary Clinton should be locked up.
Whitaker wrote:
According to FBI Director James Comey’s statement on Tuesday, former secretary of State Hillary Clinton could have been charged with violating several different code sections, and he detailed the evidence that supports bringing criminal charges.
Yet, Director Comey’s judgment was that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring the case. I disagree. I believe myself to have been a reasonable prosecutor, and when the facts and evidence show a criminal violation has been committed, the individuals involved should not dictate whether the case is prosecuted…
…A reasonable prosecutor may ask, if on numerous occasions, an unknown State Department employee had taken top secret information from a secured system, emailed that information on a Gmail account, and stored the information on a personal server for years, would that individual be prosecuted? I believe they would.
Whitaker was on CNN and he questioned the wisdom of the Mueller team knocking down former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s door at 4 in the morning –
I joined @CNN last night to discuss what the latest developments in the Manafort investigation could mean. See more: https://t.co/bOzZ5ap31b pic.twitter.com/RcEcjwmbDn
— Matt Whitaker 🇺🇸 (@MattWhitaker46) August 11, 2017
He also found it ironic that former FBI Director James Comey could be investigated for midhandling classified information –
Comey could go under investigation for mishandling classified information? That’s what you call ironic. Full clip: https://t.co/c9YV1KRilv pic.twitter.com/jUKSab7ka7
— Matt Whitaker 🇺🇸 (@MattWhitaker46) September 13, 2017
In 2015 he pointed out the obvious that Obama’s Administration was the most corrupt ever –
Most tranparent? Two-thirds of federal agencies flunked Freedom of Information Act test http://t.co/UMOR8E7Qft pic.twitter.com/67bLL43kOF
— Matt Whitaker 🇺🇸 (@MattWhitaker46) April 29, 2015
But perhaps most important is that Whitaker is a former University of Iowa Tight End. Not only was Whitaker a starting Tight End for Iowa in the 1991 Rose Bowl, he also was a scholar athlete –
Whitaker was a top scholar at the University of Iowa. He graduated in three years with a bachelor’s degree in communications, starting his first year of law school during his senior year as a football player, which was considered an extraordinarily difficult task. Besides a law degree, he has a masters in business administration.