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@lawofruby
Dec 10, 2022 • 12 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
Tonight, as you and yours settle in for Netflix & Chill, I want to introduce you to a guy who looks like a Hallmark Xmas movie lead, but is playing a role in a far more interesting drama. Meet William B. (aka Beau) Harrison. 1/ Image
Harrison is a former White House operations aide who, according to emails exchanged with the GSA in 2021, was also scheduled to take a role with former President Trump in Florida. See page 20 here:

assets.bwbx.io/documents/user…
And he is married to another former WH aide, Hayley D'Antuono, who also made the move to Florida. Here's their wedding pic, courtesy of Politico:
Harrison and his wife were in Trump's inner circle. Here they are, along with Trump's social media guru Dan Scavino, as Trump's coterie for his last flight on Marine One from the White House:

And it would seem they remain in the inner circle. FEC filings for Trump's leadership PAC, Save America, reveal that they remain on his payroll:

fec.gov/data/disbursem…
But what makes Harrison interesting now is the confluence of two things: the discovery of 2 additional classified documents in a Florida storage facility & his involvement in sending pallets of documents to both Mar-a-Lago and a West Palm Beach storage facility in 2021.
Specifically, in July 2021, as Harrison was working with GSA staff to have Trump's belongings sent to FL, he was told that certain funds could not be used unless someone certified those belongings were official, not personal. As docs @JasonLeopold obtained show, Harrison obliged:
@JasonLeopold By late September 2021, Harrison was *still* arranging for pallets of documents to be delivered, including to a West Palm Beach storage facility called Life Storage:
@JasonLeopold As @hugolowell noted earlier this week, it's *not* clear that Life Storage is "where the new documents were found – but it was the place from where Trump’s lawyers sent two dozen boxes to the National Archives earlier this year."

theguardian.com/us-news/2022/d…
@JasonLeopold @hugolowell Unsurprisingly, Harrison reportedly was interviewed by the FBI last spring.

abc57.com/news/feds-seiz…
@JasonLeopold @hugolowell But here's the kicker: Before any of us learned this week that a firm Trump hired found two additional classified docs in a Florida storage facility, we knew that 3 Trump aides testified before a grand jury *last* week:

nytimes.com/2022/12/01/us/…
@JasonLeopold @hugolowell And among the three who testified the same day that a federal appeals court ended Trump's special master dreams? The man who could have been a cable rom com star, Beau Harrison:

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May 20
NEW: While the Department of Justice issued a statement last night about the criminal charges against Rep. McIver, a spokesperson for her legal team confirms that it did not receive the charging document for until this morning, 12-plus hours later. 1/
DOJ policy, as embodied in the Justice Manual, is clear: "DOJ personnel shall not respond to questions about the existence of an ongoing investigation or comment on its nature or progress before charges are publicly filed." 2/
There are exceptions, including "[w]hen the community needs to be reassured that the appropriate law enforcement agency is investigating a matter, or where release of information is necessary to protect the public safety," but neither is relevant here. 3/
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May 14
Harvard researcher Kseniia Petrova has been charged criminally with smuggling goods -- e.g., frog embryos and samples thereof -- into the United States on the same day the judge overseeing her habeas case questioned the government's authority to revoke her visa. 1/
The administration told that judge, Christina Reiss, they intend to send Petrova back to Russia, despite her fear of arrest due to her support for Ukraine. Reiss scheduled a bail hearing on May 28, "potentially setting the stage for Ms. Petrova’s release." 2/ ...nytimes.com/2025/05/14/h
At some point today, the administration moved to unseal its criminal complaint against Petrova in a Massachusetts federal court and represented she has been arrested. 3/ Image
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Apr 2
There's been significant focus today on what the opinion dismissing the criminal case against Eric Adams says about Trump's DOJ. But what it says about the career prosecutors involved is as, if not more, significant. 1/
The Adams debacle resulted in the resignation of two prosecutors, then-acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon and AUSA Hagan Scotten, both former SCOTUS clerks and all-around superstars. And DOJ placed three other members of the core case team on administrative leave. 2/
In a now-public memo, DOJ told Sassoon they would be investigated by DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility and pursuant to Trump's executive order directing the A.G. to investigate "weaponization of justice" and to issue a report. 3/
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Jan 21
I want to live in a world where we do not talk about judges as if they owe their allegiance, or their very existence, to a particular president. Based on my experience as both a litigator and a journalist, that describes the vast majority of the federal judiciary. 1/
And yet, Judge Aileen Cannon, for all of her credentials and pre-judicial experience, has consistently staged the hearing of motions in a way that favors Trump and his co-defendants, handpicked a theory of dismissal at the invitation-by-concurrence of Justice Thomas, and even exercised jurisdiction she did not have. 2/
Her actions concerning the Special Counsel’s report, for example, were premised on authority she had stripped herself of by dismissing the case and an eventuality she refused to acknowledge: that the indictment against the two people who would supposedly be prejudiced by the report’s release not only had been dismissed but that DOJ’s pending appeal of her ruling will soon disappear too.
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Jan 16
NEW: Per @adamreisstv, Rudy Giuliani is now almost 90 minutes late for a one-day trial on whether his Palm Beach, FL condo can be taken to satisfy his $146 million debt to former GA election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. 1/
Rudy owes the women that money because his failure to participate in their defamation lawsuit was so complete that they won a default judgment on liability. And when they tried the issue of damages to a jury last December, that $146 million was the jury’s award. 2/
Since then, he has been playing games with several courts in an attempt to conceal or even exclude his assets from being seized to pay them. He first filed for bankruptcy, only to have his case kicked out of court for his obfuscation and withholding of information. 3/
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Jan 14
🧵: In October 2024, @SenWhitehouse released a report about the FBI's supplemental investigation of Brett Kavanaugh after allegations that he sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford surfaced. 1/

whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/upl…
And that report caused Whitehouse to find that the FBI's supplemental investigation was deeply flawed and manipulated by the Trump White House despite public attestations that the FBI had carte blanche to pursue all investigative leads. 2/
In his conclusion, Whitehouse noted, "Reliable background investigations of judicial nominees are crucial to the Senate’s constitutional duty to provide advice and consent," a statement with which I imagine most senators would concur, at least in a general sense. 3/
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