To Dems, Murder Isn’t Murder And A Bribe Isn’t A Bribe

D.C. Councilman Trayon White Sr. walked out of federal court without a conviction last week because, once again, liberal jurors could not come to a consensus on a bribery charge. 

Not unlike the Lindsay Clancy trial, when three dead children and a confession weren’t good enough, in this case, a video of him accepting $35,000 wasn’t enough.

U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras declared a mistrial after more than three days of deliberation, with jurors informing the court that additional discussions had only “cemented” their viewpoints.

White was accused of accepting $35,000 in cash from D.C. contractor Allieu Kamara during four meetings in 2024. Kamara was cooperating with the FBI, and agents secretly recorded these encounters.

Prosecutors alleged that White agreed to use his position to help Kamara’s companies secure renewals of multimillion-dollar violence-interruption contracts. In return, White was expected to receive $156,000, which amounted to three percent of the contracts.

Prosecutors presented approximately 87 minutes of secretly recorded footage during the trial. In one video, White accepted an envelope containing $15,000 and told Kamara, “I don’t want to feel like you have to give me something to get something done, man.”

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White had been under scrutiny. The full record of White’s behavior as an elected official proves that he is nothing more than a career thief.

He was indicted for bribery, owes money to the DC government, and has cost District taxpayers’ tens of thousands of dollars as agency managers have tried to enforce city laws.

Staff from the DC Board of Ethics and Government Accountability (BEGA) sent multiple notices to White to ensure he complied with the law requiring all DC government employees to file accurate and complete financial disclosure reports. The agency held hearings and eventually issued an order imposing fines. In response, White presented ridiculous arguments; for instance, he claimed there was no certainty that he had received adequate and timely notifications through the government email system. He also stated, according to a BEGA report, that “requiring him to file his financial disclosure reports while he is under criminal indictment for alleged actions taken during his time on the Council violates his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.”

The DC Office of Campaign Finance (OCF) spent excessive funds pursuing White for failing to account for Fair Elections Program money.

The council allocated $400,000 in public funds for an independent investigation into White’s actions surrounding his arrest by the FBI in August 2024. This investigation, carried out by Latham & Watkins LLP, ultimately led his colleagues to vote unanimously, 12-0, to expel him for multiple violations of DC’s ethics laws.

The FBI used federal funds to pursue the bribery case. Notably, an FBI affidavit indicated that White had previously accepted a bribe from Kamara to prevent losing a contract in 2020.

Equally concerning, White and his followers have at times used strong-arm tactics against businesses operating in Ward 8. Reports say they have coerced these companies into paying what amounts to a ransom or bribe.

In 2022, he failed to make a campaign payment. As a candidate for mayor in the Democratic primary, he misappropriated nearly $59,000 in public money from the city’s Fair Elections Program, according to audits and a final order issued by the Office of Campaign Finance (OCF). The agency later demanded that he repay those funds and imposed $18,100 in fines on him and his campaign treasurer, Fria Moore.

According to Kamill Key, OCF’s public affairs manager, White currently owes the DC Government a total of $ 77,006.29. That debt does not include interest.

As a council member, this scum gets an annual salary of more than $167,000. Yet, he still rips off hard-working citizens for everything he can.

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro has no intention of backing off.

“We have video showing piles of cash being given to a D.C. councilmember as part of a $156,000. Rest assured that we will retry this case and every corruption case to verdict.”

According to White’s lead attorney, the jury ultimately voted 9-3 for acquittal. This account of the jury’s breakdown suggests that, if accurate, Pirro may face significant challenges when she presents the case to another jury in D.C.

So, what would cause a jury to vote 9-3 for acquittal when there was video evidence of White accepting the money?

Well, I am not a lawyer, but the defense’s excuse seems almost laughable, even though no one is laughing. White’s lawyers acknowledged that he accepted the $35,000. Their defense argued that accepting the money alone did not constitute the bribery offense because White had no intention of pressuring D.C. officials to renew Kamara’s contracts.

Three D.C. officials who spoke with White about Kamara testified that White did not pressure them to renew the contracts. This detail became crucial when jurors asked Contreras if accepting money to perform an official action, without any intention of fulfilling the agreement, would constitute bribery. The judge informed them that it did not.

Huh, What?

So an elected official can accept money to show favoritism, but if he swindles the swindler, he’s not guilty of accepting a bribe. Only a Democrat could present that argument with a straight face, and only a bunch of idiotic liberals would accept it and recommend an acquittal for slime like White.

So, the question now is, what happens next? At this point, White is useless in his Ward 8 position. Taxpayers are now stuck with an overpaid thief representing them because nine small-minded bigots couldn’t do the right thing.