Thread by @ninaandtito

Just a lil note on timing. Something I’ve been thinking about.
August 14, 2020, this story is published. Breaks news: criminal referrals to DoJ from Senate Intel re possible perjury by Bannon, Don Jr, Kushner, Manafort, Hope Hicks.
latimes.com/politics/story…

Referral made 3 months after 4/18/19, but before 7/26/19. So, call it sometime between 7/19/19-7/25/19 that the criminal referral is made by bipartisan Senate Intel, signed by Warner & Burr.

5 days after the criminal referral re perjury breaks, WSJ news division (the good side of WSJ, not the shit tier editorial side) breaks this:

wsj.com/articles/fundr…

And then the next morning, at 7:15am, Bannon was arrested on Guo Wengui’s yacht. justice.gov/usao-sdny/pres…

So less than a week after we learn the Senate Intel Committee had referred Bannon & others to DoJ for perjury a year prior, Bannon is arrested for an entirely different criminal scheme. It’s just interesting timing.

So the criminal referral for perjury was made to DC US Attorney Jesse Liu’s office building bipartisan Senate Intel in July 2019. She was pushed/pulled out of the office in January 2020. With a nom to Treasury, which failed. nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

Barr wanted her out of the DC USAtty office by Feb 1, 2020.

It was reported that they wanted her out and pulled her Treasury nom because of how she handled Stone/McCabe cases. But I wonder if there was something also about how or if her office was looking at the perjury referrals.

cnn.com/2020/02/12/pol…

Barr replaced Liu with a political hack, Timothy Shea. Who then went to bat for Mike Flynn. justsecurity.org/70099/dc-needs…

Ok, so then, June 2020, Barr files SDNY US Attorney Berman, tries to replace him with a political hack from the SEC, but fails to push that through. Non political, career prosecutor Audrey Strauss succeeds Berman, which is the correct chain of command.

nytimes.com/2020/06/20/nyr…

Two months later, on Aug 14, 2020, we learn that bipartisan Senate Intel had referred Bannon, Jr, Kushner, Hicks, to DC US attorney for perjury investigation in July 2019.
Senate Intel Russia report is released 4 days later.
WSJ reports Guo under SEC investigation on Aug 19, 2020

IT WAS WEIRD that the political guy Barr wanted to replace Berman with in June 2020 was from the SEC! That was weird. He apparently spoke to trump admin (that means Barr imo) week of June 8, 2020. (2 weeks before June 25, 2020 accdg to this)
wsj.com/articles/secs-…

Barr wanted to get rid of Berman, replace him with a political Barr ally from the SEC.
And the SEC was investigating Guo. Who was tied to Bannon.
All of the events read, to me, like Barr was trying to prevent a Bannon arrest. Because they don’t want Bannon to flip on Trump.

SDNY indicts Bannon for the Build the Wall stuff-boilerplate fraud. Easier prosecution than perjury. Also better for NatSec than a counterintel prosecution (sources/methods).
The criminal referral for perjury, & Senate Intel Russia report are in the public domain at this point.

Barr can’t make the We Build The Wall fraud go away. It’s too late.
Bannon is in the juicer.
And career prosecutors, like Audrey Strauss, are good at squeezing.

https://twitter.com/LincolnsBible/status/972651219738009600

The best counterintel prosecution strategy, to protect national security, is a guilty plea.

https://twitter.com/911corlebra777/status/1212453185006161921

Ugh! *by the, not *building

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