Kerry Should Be In Jail!

LOCK HIM UP! John Kerry heading to JAIL!?

MAY 10, 2019

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Former Secretary of State John Kerry has been illegally acting as an unregistered foreign lobbyist — and he’s facing potential jail time for his meddling with U.S.-Iran relations.

President Donald Trump asked for a formal investigation into Kerry on Friday, alleging the Democratic leader has been undermining the Trump administration’s high stakes nuclear negotiations with Iran.

“You know John Kerry speaks to [Iranian officials] a lot, and John Kerry tells them not to call,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “That’s a violation of the Logan Act, and frankly he should be prosecuted on that.”

“But my people don’t want to do anything, only the Democrats do that kind of stuff,” Trump said. “If it were the opposite way, they’d prosecute him under the Logan Act.”

The Logan Act is a 1799 law that prohibits private citizens from negotiating on behalf of the U.S. government without authorization. Legal experts point out that no one has ever been successfully prosecuted under the law in United States history.

But Kerry’s illegal negotiations weren’t a one-time event, critics point out.

Kerry has repeatedly engaged in what The Boston Globe in May 2018 called illegal “shadow diplomacy.”

Every few months since Trump took office, Kerry has secretly met with Iranian officials to try to salvage the disastrous U.S.-Iran nuclear deal, enacted under former President Barack Obama. Kerry himself has admitted he’s met with his Iranian counterpart at least “three or four times” since becoming a private citizen.

In September, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unloaded on Kerry for “actively undermining” U.S. policy on Iran after another secret meeting was uncovered.

Pompeo said that Kerry’s frequent meetings with Mohammad Javad Zarif were “unseemly and unprecedented.”

“You can’t find precedent for this in U.S. history, and Secretary Kerry ought not to engage in that kind of behavior,” Pompeo told reporters at the time. “It’s inconsistent with what foreign policy of the United States is as directed by this president, and it is beyond inappropriate for him to be engaged.”

As a result, critics have repeatedly called for Kerry’s arrest over the past year.

It’s part of a regular pattern of illegal acts by the former secretary of state, they point out.

And now that Trump has started demanding action, the clock may be finally running out for Obama’s former secretary of state.

Late last year, the Justice Department began cracking down on violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Two associates of former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn were charged in December with being unregistered foreign lobbyists for their work on behalf of Turkey.

That could mean Kerry and his “shadow diplomacy” could be their next target — especially if the president is asking Justice Department officials to act.

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Stephen Dietrich is the Associate Publisher of The Horn News