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11 Aug, 5 tweets, 1 min read

https://twitter.com/tristansnell/status/1425085997092589574

UPDATE: It turns out this was accurate. More details tomorrow on Gaetz...

https://twitter.com/tristansnell/status/1425085997092589574

Got some good intel and working on getting more — then as soon as I have the info I’ll share!

One thing that is already clear

The Politico piece was incorrect or is now out of date — the Gaetz case is definitely not stuck

I never bought that Politico piece on Gaetz anyway

The prosecutors do not view Greenberg as a bad witness — they’ve already cut his indictment from 33 counts to 6 based on his cooperation. You don’t give away that much if the cooperator is a bad witness.

I think the Politico piece information mostly came from Gaetz’s defense lawyers, in all likelihood.

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11 Aug

Gaetzgate latest - what we know, and my take

What we know - indictment is coming in the next few weeks, either in August or just after

Also clear that the US Attorney’s Office is taking very strong positions with Gaetz and his counsel and is ready to indict Gaetz and others

My take on Gaetzgate based on what I’ve been able to find out

What’s really going on is that the feds are applying a lot of pressure on Gaetz to flip and cooperate — if the feds are taking a strong position, it’s to get cooperation

But what would Gaetz be able to cooperate on?

Gaetz could cooperate on the existing case they have open in federal court in Orlando — adding to the testimony from Gaetz’s buddy Joel Greenberg

But what else could Gaetz do? What other things could he cooperate on? That’s the more interesting question.

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8 Aug

To be clear, Rosen is almost certainly a longtime Republican. He served in the GW Bush administration, then was Elaine Chao’s deputy at Transportation before Trump made him Deputy AG. He is not a Democrat, a lib, or anything of the sort. He simply refused to support sedition.

When Trump named Rosen as Deputy AG despite zero prosecution experience, it was likely done in communication with Chao (his then boss) and Mitch McConnell (her husband). Likely they all thought he would be loyal to the administration and GOP. There were limits to that, thankfully

This underscores that McConnell likely knew what Trump was doing to overturn the election results all during the weeks leading up to January 6. Trump may have pushed on McConnell directly — and Rosen may have been in touch with Chao as well.

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2 Jul

1/ Something that jumped out during the Trump lawyers’ press remarks — with potentially interesting ramifications:

They said that the Trump Organization has 3500 employees globally.

Why is this interesting?

2/ Trump Org is actually a holding company, with hundreds of subsidiaries. The subsidiaries contain the various businesses. Each building or hotel or golf course is usually its own LLC. Trump University was its own LLC when we prosecuted it. 40 Wall Street has its own LLC, etc.

3/ Trump has this system to manage liability, especially with creditors. So when they shut down Trump U, they said oops it’s dead, no more money to pay you, even though Trump Org could have paid the invoices. This is how they run everything.

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