https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump ... d/1124782/Key Player in Trump's 2020 Campaign Mulls Special Counsel Interview
By Charles Kim Saturday, 24 June 2023 12:06 PM EDT
The New York Times is reporting that a former President Donald Trump 2020 campaign official may cooperate with Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith's probe of Jan. 6, 2021, election interference. According to the report, Michael Roman, Trump's director of Election Day operations, is talking with Smith's office about giving an interview called a "proffer" to prosecutors working for Smith. Should he do so, according to The Times, it would be the first known instance of cooperation by a key player in the "fake electors" plan at the heart of Smith's investigation.
The fake electors plan involved creating pro-Trump slates of electors in key swing states that Joe Biden narrowly won in 2020 to give then-Vice President Mike Pence a reason to challenge the certification of the 2020 Electoral College vote count during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, the day Trump supporters rioted at the U.S. Capitol. Attorney Merrick Garland tasked Smith with investigating Trump on two separate fronts, including his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House and his role with others to subvert the 2020 election.
The former president is already facing 37 federal felony charges for his handling of documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after leaving office and has pleaded not guilty to the counts during his arraignment in Miami. The report said that several people involved in the fake electors' plot testified in front of a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., including Roman's deputy, Gary Michael Brown, who testified Thursday.
The Times said it has reviewed emails it obtained last summer that show Roman doing much of the "legwork" for the scheme and assembling a team of lawyers and aides to assist that effort. "We would just be sending in 'fake' electoral votes to Pence so that 'someone' in Congress can make an objection when they start counting votes and start arguing that the 'fake' votes should be counted," The Times reported Jack Wilenchik, a Phoenix-based lawyer who was helping to organize the pro-Trump electors in Arizona, writing in a December 2020 email reviewed by the publication.
The Times reported that the FBI formally opened an investigation into the alleged plan in April 2022, issuing "a flurry" of grand jury subpoenas to Republican officials in the battleground states two months later. In June 2022, the DOJ seized several cellphones from lawyers connected to the plan and created a team of prosecutors to go through the communications, the report said.
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Because it's coming...
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CNN is reporting that Mike Roman flipped! They say he's now a "cooperating witness". They seized his phone a few months ago. He pleaded the 5th to the J6 Committee.
Things are heating up!
Things are heating up!
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Well, this didn't take too long
Good thing that MAGAts say that every Indictment makes him stronger. Their wishes are coming true.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/1 ... s-00106776Trump says he’s received a target letter from special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 investigators
It’s the clearest sign yet that Trump may soon face his third criminal indictment — this time for his effort to subvert the 2020 election results.
While the specific crimes that former President Donald Trump may be charged with are not clear, Smith’s team has been eyeing potential obstruction charges related to Trump’s actions in the days leading up to Jan. 6 and on that day itself.
By KYLE CHENEY 07/18/2023 09:32 AM EDT Updated: 07/18/2023 10:07 AM EDT
Donald Trump said Tuesday he expects to be indicted by special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 grand jury, citing a “target letter” he received from investigators on Sunday. Such a letter “almost always means an arrest and indictment,” Trump, who has already been criminally indicted twice in recent months, wrote on Truth Social. Trump said the letter, which is prosecutors’ typical precursor to a charging decision, offered him a chance to speak to the grand jury, which meets at the federal courthouse in Washington D.C., later this week. Targets of criminal investigations rarely speak to grand juries, and Trump has not exercised that right in the two other criminal cases in which he’s been charged.
The letter is the clearest sign yet that Smith is close to seeking an indictment for Trump’s role in the effort to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power on Jan. 6, 2021. While the specific crimes that Trump may be charged with are not clear, Smith’s team has been eyeing potential obstruction charges related to Trump’s actions in the days leading up to Jan. 6 and on that day itself — including pressuring his vice president, Mike Pence, to unilaterally block the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
Investigators have also examined Trump’s consideration of a plan to seize voting machines from the states, his campaign of false claims that the election was stolen and his role in advancing a plan to assemble bogus slates of presidential electors to stoke a conflict ahead of Jan. 6. It’s unclear whether other figures associated with Trump’s effort are also in Smith’s sights. Investigators have interviewed dozens of prominent figures in Trump’s orbit, including Pence, in recent months. Attorneys John Eastman and Jeff Clark — two Trump associates considered key allies in his effort — had their phones seized last year.
Trump revealed the target letter as he prepares to fight on another front to delay a criminal trial — also resulting from charges brought by Smith — related to his hoarding of national security secrets at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Trump’s attorneys will be in court in Fort Pierce, Fla. on Tuesday afternoon asking for the trial to be postponed until after the 2024 election, a prospect that Smith’s team has vehemently opposed. Trump is facing an extraordinary array of criminal charges and investigations. In addition to the two cases Smith has mounted, he’s facing charges in Manhattan for allegedly falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment scheme to a porn actress accusing him of an extramarital affair in 2016. And a district attorney based in Fulton County, Ga. has convened a grand jury that is expected to consider charging Trump and allies for efforts to subvert the 2020 election in Georgia. Many aspects of Smith’s Jan. 6 investigation were previously pursued by the House select committee on Jan. 6, which interviewed hundreds of figures associated with Trump’s scheme to seize a second term despite losing the election. The committee concluded that Trump was at the center of a complex, months-long effort to sow doubt about the election results and then orchestrate several attempts to reverse the outcome despite no evidence of significant fraud.
The panel focused in particular on Trump’s effort to pressure state and local officials to appoint “alternative” slates of presidential electors in seven states won by Biden and then use those slates as a pretense to disrupt the Jan. 6 session of Congress — when the Constitution and federal laws require Congress to meet and certify the election. That session, also according to the Constitution and law, is managed by the vice president, who doubles as president of the Senate. When no state officials acquiesced, Trump turned to a cadre of lawyers, including Eastman, who promoted fringe alternatives to keep Trump’s prospects alive. Eastman famously pressured Pence and his top aides to violate provisions of the Electoral Count Act — the law that has governed the Jan. 6 session of Congress since 1887 — to advance the effort.
Prosecutors and the select committee have also focused on Trump’s effort to assemble a massive crowd in Washington on Jan. 6, part of his plan to pressure Pence and GOP lawmakers to help reverse the results, and then to steer it toward the Capitol after Pence made clear he wouldn’t go along with the plan. Trump inflamed the crowd with his rhetoric and then stoked anger further when he attacked Pence — even as violence was underway at the Capitol — accusing him of lacking “courage.” Pence and lawmakers were forced to evacuate and delay the count of electoral votes for six hours while law enforcement and the National Guard worked to clear the mob.
Good thing that MAGAts say that every Indictment makes him stronger. Their wishes are coming true.
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I hope he indicts in NJ as well to make it 5
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What a lovely surprise. Didn't they take Eastman's phone once already? Good times.
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The NYT article linked in above tweet does not offer any real insight. Just lists speculations and restatements made by several authors.
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I listened to Keith Olbermann's Countdown podcast on the latest potential indictments. He noted that on Saturday Trump posted a rant on Truth Social asking why he was being charged under the Insurrection Act. The post was fairly quickly removed by someone and the reference to the Insurrection Act was replaced with Espionage Act. This was just over a day before Trump claimed his attorneys received the Sunday target letter from Special Prosecutor Jack Smith. KO speculated that this was not a random reference. He thinks Smith may be planning to move to have Trump declared ineligible.
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Neal Katyal was on with Jen Psaki this morning. He was asked about timing of indictment coming out, whether to be patient or keep hitting the refresh button. Neal said to keep hitting refresh and in his opinion it will be "this week". ![Waiting :waiting:](./images/smilies/waiting2-smiley.gif)
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CBS reporting Trump J6 indictment could come as early as tomorrow.
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As the kids say, LFG! (Let's Fuc*ing Go).
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"could come as early as tomorrow..."
You know what else could come as early tomorrow? Neon winning the $820M jackpot on MegaMillions.
I'm not getting my popcorn ready yet for either until something is real and not speculation.
You know what else could come as early tomorrow? Neon winning the $820M jackpot on MegaMillions.
I'm not getting my popcorn ready yet for either until something is real and not speculation.
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Tomorrow I could be considered attractive by the Opposite Sex.
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Yes, the CBS article was long on speculation and short on facts. It was borderline click bait.
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No new indictments for tfg and no MegaMillions for me.
CALLED IT!
CALLED IT!
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They didn't say exactly which tomorrow.
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Let's not get out ahead of ourselves here...
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