THREAD: a few people have expressed trepidation about my calls to appoint a special counsel to investigate trump’s plot to overthrow the government because “nothing happened” with Mueller’s probe. I’d like to point a few things out, if I may. 1/
First, Mueller didn’t do “nothing”. He had over 300 criminal charges against over 30 criminals with 9 convictions. Trump pardoned the big dogs. Biden will not. The reason you feel like Mueller did nothing is because Barr wanted you to think Mueller did nothing. 2/
As judge Walton concluded, Barr inappropriately redacted volume 1 to downplay the MASSIVE scope of Russian assistance to the trump campaign. Because of Barr’s “lack of candor”, most of those redactions have been removed, but MSM didn’t report it so you probably didn’t know 3/
Further, Barr took advantage of Mueller’s conclusions and made an incorrect determination on obstruction of justice. But the findings are there, and if they aren’t prosecuted, that’s a failing of Garland, not Mueller. 4/
And don’t forget Rosenstein promised trump he would “land the plane” and curtailed the scope of the investigation. Twice. 5/
Then Barr totally lied about the findings and then sat on the report for three weeks before releasing it while he and trump went on a spin tour convincing Americans there was “nothing” in the report. Not to mention the multiple attempts to fire Mueller, chilling his work. 6/
So with regards to a special counsel for the coup, we no longer have trump giving pardons or threatening to fire the special counsel, we no longer have Rosenstein limiting the scope, and we no longer have Barr to hiding the findings. 7/
And if you don’t trust Garland, Monaco, and Biden to support a special counsel and allow them to do a full probe, then why do you trust the DoJ to do the investigation itself? We must #AppointSpecialCounsel END
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BREAKING: Cy Vance has opened an investigation into Leon Black: the guy who gave $50M to Epstein for “investments”. He owns Apollo Mgmt which lent Kushner $184M. He also went to Russia with Donald and CALAMARI. I think Calamari is cooperating.
THREAD: why a special counsel to investigate the leaders of the coup is a good idea.
First, POWER: a special counsel has prosecutorial powers and can grant all their team members the full powers of a US Attorney. They can indict and their subpoenas are toothy. 1/
Second, SPEED: I know you feel like Mueller and Durham took forever, but it took only five months before Mueller started making it rain indictments on the likes of Manafort and Gates. It would be their ONLY focus, unlike the DoJ or FBI. 2/
Third, TRANSPARENCY: unlike the DoJ or congress, a special counsel is REQUIRED to disclose who & why they did or didn’t prosecute, & if the AG narrows the scope or blocks an indictment, they MUST tell congress they did so. DoJ doesn’t have to tell us shit. 3/
THREAD: I've now heard from multiple sources that the DoJ might be considering delaying a Bannon indictment for criminal contempt in order to secure a ruling from the courts affirming that Bannon's testimony has a legislative purpose. Now, let me be clear about a few things... 1/
First, there is nothing confirming that this is what will happen. I would strongly disagree with a months-long delay to secure a ruling on what we already know to be true: that the committee has a legislative purpose. BUT... 2/
It is a not totally stupid defense that the Bannon team would use: "If the congress does not have prosecutorial power, what possible legislative purpose exists to justify the compelled testimony of Steve Bannon?" 3/
THREAD: Reminds me of when @LeoDiCaprio had to forfeit a Picasso given to him by Jho Low who laundered money from 1MDB. Tom Barrack owned a hotel purchased by laundered 1MDB funds. Barrack was indicted in July & could be cooperating. I think this raid and Barrack are related. 1/
And the Senate Intel @MarkWarner made criminal referrals regarding Prince, #Bannon, Clovis, Trump Jr, and Kushner for lying to congress, but as with the House referral on Prince, Barr did nothing. Time for @TheJusticeDept to address these crimes. 2/ nbcnews.com/politics/justi…