Ex-Democrat Florida gov nominee not guilty of lying to FBI

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11. Jeff Sessions was AG when the FBI conducted the lying entrapment sting in 2017.

It was that June 14, 2017 sting that led to the lying to the FBI charge. “On or about June 14, 2017, Gillum voluntarily agreed to speak with FBI agents,” the indictment stated. “During the conversation, Gillum falsely represented that Southern Pines representatives never offered Gillum anything or gave to Gillum anything, and that Gillum stopped having communications with Southern Pines representatives about the campaign contributions following their attempt to link the campaign contributions to support for potential projects in Tallahassee.”

Trump's AG put his most Trumpy prosecutors on the case, I'm sure. Gillum was a rising Dem star at the time. Trump always brags how he got DeSantis elected governor in 2018. Gillum was leading by up to 9 points in polls against DeSantis in the months leading up to the election in 2018, but then, in an October surprise, word got out about the FBI sting, and DeSantis used it in attack ads and won the governor seat, albeit by just 32,463 votes.

When Garland took over DOJ, those prosecutors kept doing what they were doing. Garland gives his prosecutors a free hand, like he's supposed to. He would never intervene like Bill Barr did.

So suggesting this prosecution and decision to retry were Garland's is wrong.