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bob wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2023 3:56 pm When a federal judge says "hearing by Friday," "well, actually...." usually is not an acceptable answer.

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That said, this remarkable statement by former J6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson is essentially admitting the committee destroyed evidence that undermined their preconceived notions.

Shizzle Popped wrote: ↑Wed Aug 09, 2023 8:36 am
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I saw this posted on Reddit. I don't Truth so it could be a fake, but it looks like his insane bullshit to me. The rubes will eat it up.

Secret memo shows Trump campaign knew fake elector scheme was likely to fail

An internal Trump campaign memo by Kenneth Chesebro, a lawyer allied with Donald Trump, reveals new details about how the former president and his team initiated the plan to interfere with the electoral college process and install fake GOP electors in multiple states after losing the 2020 presidential election.

The 6 December 2020 memo, made public on Tuesday by the New York Times, shows how Chesebro laid out the plan to put forth slates of Republican electors in seven key swing states that Trump had lost.

The document, which federal prosecutors described as a “fraudulent elector memo”, revealed that Chesebro proposed the appointment of fake electors, and detailed a “messaging” strategy to portray them as evidence if legislatures later concluded Trump as the victor in those states.

In the memo, Chesebro acknowledges that he is suggesting a “bold, controversial strategy” that the supreme court would “likely” ultimately reject. He argues that the plan would focus attention on claims of voter fraud and “buy the Trump campaign more time to win litigation that would deprive Biden of electoral votes and/or add to Trump’s column”.

The memo was referenced in the four-count indictment against Trump by a Washington DC grand jury last month. The indictment identifies, but does not name, Chesebro as a co-conspirator in Trump’s alleged conspiracy to obstruct certification of the 2020 election.

In separate, previously seen emails, Chesebro had also suggested having then-vice president Mike Pence open and count the electoral votes alone. Pence would then certify the fake electors’ votes, even though Biden would have won the state, according to the plan.



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Special counsel Jack Smith obtained search warrant for Donald Trump’s Twitter account

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Special counsel Jack Smith sought and obtained a search warrant for Donald Trump’s Twitter account as part of his criminal investigation of the former president, according to newly revealed court documents.

Twitter, now known as X, initially delayed production of the materials required by the search warrant, which resulted in a federal judge holding the company in contempt and levying a $350,000 fine.

The story was first reported by Politico.



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According to newly revealed court documents, Twitter was barred from notifying anyone that a search warrant had been obtained for Donald Trump’s Twitter account.

The special counsel’s office sought the warrant in January 2023 as part of its investigation into the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

The filing says special counsel Jack Smith obtained a search warrant directing Twitter to produce “data and records” related to Trump’s Twitter account. The filing says the court “found probable cause to search the Twitter account for evidence of criminal offenses”.

The court “found that there were ‘reasonable grounds to believe’ that disclosing the warrant to former President Trump ‘would seriously jeopardize the ongoing investigation’ by giving him ‘an opportunity to destroy evidence, change patterns of behavior, [or] notify confederates’”, the filing writes.

The district court also concluded the non-disclosure order was necessary because it “found reason to believe that the former President would ‘flee from prosecution’”, it says.


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Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Wed Aug 09, 2023 7:17 pm Got to admit I'm surprised Elmo didn't flip a bird at the court and tip off TFG anyway during the whole process. Not that I give him *credit* for my surprise. I'm just surprised.

somerset wrote: ↑Wed Aug 09, 2023 7:24 pm

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Wed Aug 09, 2023 7:17 pm Got to admit I'm surprised Elmo didn't flip a bird at the court and tip off TFG anyway during the whole process. Not that I give him *credit* for my surprise. I'm just surprised.

There may have been some severe penalties mentioned in the warrant for disclosing its presence. Unlike tfg, Musk can be jailed

Donald Trump's lawyer in the Washington D.C.-based election conspiracy case may have already violated a criminal rule in that jurisdiction, according to legal experts on Wednesday.

Trump attorney John Lauro has been seen on numerous morning and cable news shows discussing the case, a tactic that has already been criticized by those saying the former president wants to try that case in the court of public opinion --- and not in a courtroom. That media appearance schedule is also at the heart of an alleged rule violation, according to former Assistant United States Attorney Andrew Weissmann.

"It is not clear why Trump's lawyers have not already violated the DC court's Criminal Rule 57.7(b)(1) & (3), which prohibit the media blitz they have engaged in this past week," Weissmann wrote in a post on Wednesday. "I wd not be surprised if the Court and govt raise this at Friday's DC hearing on the protective order."

Special Counsel Jack Smith has called out Donald Trump’s defence team for appearing to forget how long ago the January 6 Capitol riots took place.

In a new legal filing, the prosecutor criticised the former president’s attorneys for writing that Mr Smith’s team “has been investigating this matter for three and a half years, while the defense is starting with a blank slate”.

“Not only is this claim impossible, as January 6, 2021, was two and a half years ago, but it is disingenuous,” the Special Counsel’s office wrote.

The defence claim also attracted the attention of social media users, with Scott MacFarlane of CBS tweeting: “I’ve seen many math mistakes in assorted Jan 6 defense court filings over the years. But this one is a whopper.”

This came as the prosecution and Mr Trump came to blows over their proposed dates for Mr Trump to be tried on charges over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

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Chutkan what about situation where person is denigrating a witness - what is meant to protect that from happening?
Lauro: Obviously since prosecutors brought this case in the middle of campaign, Trump has right to respond to political opponents...

Chutkan: But that has to yield. Regardless of what is going on with his, I hate to say, his day job, this is a criminal case. The need for this to proceed in normal order and protect witnesses, integrity of process means there are going to be limits on defendant's speech

p0rtia wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 10:17 am Following the protection order hearing w @Brandi_Buchman

She is tweeting almost every word. DOJ lawyer flubbing it, big time, right now.