A former federal prosecutor called out a reported filing made by an attorney for former President Donald Trump's valet – a co-defendant in the Mar-a-Lago special counsel case – and said the allegations amount to "extortion."

James Trusty, a former chief of the Justice Department's organized crime unit, said both Trump's case and the state of allegations against the Biden family from whistleblowers "speak volumes" about the integrity of the current DOJ.

He referenced allegations against Assistant U.S. Attorney for Delaware Lesley Wolf that claim she warned Hunter Biden's attorneys about potential scrutiny on a storage unit the first son used.

"In my book, that's basically obstruction of justice," Trusty said on 'Life, Liberty & Levin" Sunday.

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But, Trusty added that a recent wrinkle in Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation into alleged mishandling of classified information at Trump's Mar-a-Lago compound in Palm Beach may be similarly alarming.

"You had a high-level DOJ official -- according to a statement submitted as an officer-to-the-court, to a federal judge -- told Stanley Woodward, a defense attorney representing Walt Nauta that it would be a shame, essentially, if he endangered his pending judgeship by not flipping Nauta against President Trump," Trusty said.

The incident, first reported in the UK Guardian, claimed federal prosecutor Jay Bratt – head of the counterintelligence and export-control section of the DOJ's National Security Division – brought up the fact that Woodward filed an application to be considered for a federal judge opening.

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Woodward appeared before prosecutors in Washington in November 2022, according to the Guardian, over a matter they did not want to talk about by phone. The paper characterized the exchange as one in which Bratt suggested Woodward's endeavor for a judgeship would be viewed in a more positive light if his client cooperated against his boss -- the former president.

"Again, it's extortion," Trusty told host Mark Levin.

"So the people that we are entrusting in our criminal justice system to fairly and impartially and transparently pursue justice are actually obstructionists because they're so hellbent on going after one target: President Trump."

Trusty said the reported incident involving Woodward and Bratt is the latest example of continued suggestions the Biden DOJ has "no compunction about breaking the rules" or flouting rule-of-law for political ends.

Trusty added that there are other "shenanigans" afoot in Smith's use of a grand jury regarding Trump, characterizing the classified documents case as one that began with a presiding judge in Washington, but continued with an indictment lodged in Miami.

"You don't do a grand jury investigation for a year only to move it to another district unless there's more to the story," he said.

Levin noted that the grand jury in Washington would be witnessing evidence and occurrences that would naturally remain unbeknownst to a Florida grand jury, thereby muddying the case. 

"Past people I have talked to that have faced this man, Smith, say that's exactly what he does," Levin said.

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"He pierces attorney-client privilege by-hook-or-by-crook, gets it in front of the grand jury. It's used in front of the grand jury. And now in this case, he's moved it to another grand jury. And so the grand jury in Florida and the judge in Florida don't know anything about it unless Trump's lawyers are good enough to raise it with them."

Trusty, who at one point was part of Trump's Washington-based legal contingent but withdrew in June, said he hopes the former president's current counsel does bring the discrepancies before Judges Tanya Chutkan – the Obama appointee in Washington – or Aileen Cannon – the Trump appointee in Miami.

Of the Bratt-Woodward report, Fox News contributor and George Washington University Law Prof. Jonathan Turley also opined, saying in a June "Hill" column the indictment against Nauta, a Guam native, is "clearly designed to concentrate [his] mind on cooperation."

"If he were to flip… Trump would face a potentially insurmountable case," Turley wrote in the column.

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President Richard Nixon, the 37th president, announced he would be resigning from the office on this day in history, August 8, 1974.

In a speech delivered to the nation from the Oval Office, Nixon said his resignation would go into effect "at noon tomorrow."

On August 9, Gerald Ford would assume the presidency as the nation's 38th president. 

Nixon was the first U.S. president to resign from the position. He left the highest office in the land in the face of likely impeachment amid the Watergate scandal, which involved his administration's cover-up of spying activities on the Democratic Party's headquarters during the election. 

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"In all the decisions I have made in my public life, I have always tried to do what was best for the nation," said Nixon in his speech. 

"Throughout the long and difficult period of Watergate, I have felt it was my duty to persevere, to make every possible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me," he added.

Nixon said that he did not believe he had the support of Congress to continue the remainder of his presidential term. 

He had been re-elected president in 1972 in a landslide victory over Democrat George McGovern, taking 60.7% of the popular vote and carrying 49 states (Nixon also became the first Republican ever to sweep the South, while McGovern took just 37.5% of the popular vote). 

"I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body," said Nixon. 

"But as president," he continued, "I must put the interest of America first. America needs a full-time president and a full-time Congress, particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad."

The president said that if he were to stay in office, fighting his way through Watergate to try to vindicate himself "would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the president and the Congress in a period when our entire focus should be on the great issues of peace abroad and prosperity without inflation at home."

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"Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as president at that hour in this office," he said. 

Nixon said that by resigning from the presidency, he hoped "that I will have hastened the start of that process of healing, which is so desperately needed in America."

"I regret deeply any injuries that may have been done in the course of the events that led to this decision," he said. 

"I would say only that if some of my judgments were wrong, and some were wrong, they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation."

Nixon then thanked his family, friends, and the "many others who joined in supporting my cause because they believed it was right" — saying he would be "eternally grateful" for their support. 

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"And to those who have not felt able to give me your support, let me say I leave with no bitterness toward those who have opposed me, because all of us, in the final analysis, have been concerned with the good of the country, however our judgments might differ," said Nixon.

He then urged people to "join together in affirming that common commitment and in helping our new president succeed for the benefit of all Americans." 

Ford would serve out the remainder of Nixon's term before losing the 1976 election to President Jimmy Carter. 

One month to the day of Nixon's resignation announcement, Ford announced that he had decided to "grant a full, free and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed." 

As a result, Nixon would not face any charges for his role in the Watergate scandal.

While the former president departed the White House amid scandal in 1974, his legacy includes being the architect of détente with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. 

In 1972, Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit Moscow, where he signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty with Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev. 

In addition, Nixon spent the years following his presidency taking foreign trips on behalf of the United States and offering counsel based on decades of experience to guide U.S. policy in the post-Cold War era. 

Nixon also foresaw that relations between Russia and Ukraine would dissolve. 

He called the situation in Ukraine "highly explosive." 

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"If it is allowed to get out of control," Nixon told then-President Bill Clinton in a letter written on March 21, 1994, "it will make Bosnia look like a PTA garden party." 

Nixon died on April 22, 1994, at age 81, notes the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California.

Chris Pandolfo of Fox News Digital contributed reporting.