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/
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:
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:
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."
@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:
@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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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.
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/
🧵: 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/
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/
If Samantha Hegseth, Pete Hegseth’s second (and now ex-)wife, proactively sought to speak with the FBI about her ex-husband, why was she not interviewed? The Senate’s decades-long failure to develop a responsible background check system to exercise its “advise and consent” powers is baffling.
Instead, however, some senators have decided that anonymity automatically discredits sexual misconduct and assault accusations—even though there are multiple ways the Armed Services Committee, the FBI, or both could have vetted her story without revealing her name publicly.
For example, Lindsey Graham was once a reliable and prominent voice for survivors of sexual assault. But lately, he’s been singing a different tune:
NEW: Rudy Giuliani’s back in his old stomping grounds — Manhattan federal district court — this morning. And today, he’s facing the prospect of a contempt ruling for failing to turn over a host of property to two former GA election workers to whom he owes nearly $150 million. 1/
In a filing earlier this week, the women’s attorneys note that despite a clear Oct. 2024 order, Giuliani has not given them the title or deed for his vintage Mercedes convertible or his NY condo, both of which he was ordered to turn over. 2/
They also accuse Giuliani of playing games with respect to the whereabouts of his framed DiMaggio jersey, which a friend testified he had seen in Rudy’s Palm Beach condo within the last two years; cash held in a known Citibank account; and even watches and costume jewelry. 3/
Based on the comments in my last thread, it seems like a lot of folks are misinformed or simply willing to drink the red Kool Aid about the law that allowed E. Jean Carroll to make a sexual assault claim in her second, 2022 lawsuit against him. 1/
First and foremost, E. Jean needed no change in law to bring her second defamation claim against Trump. What begat that was his October 2022 tweet basically repeating the same statements about her that he had made in 2019. 2/
But more fundamentally, the Adult Survivors Act was no “get Trump” cabal. It was an effort, years in the making, to extend statutes of limitations for those who alleged they were sexually abused as adults, not minors, as this @nytimes story illustrates: nytimes.com/2019/10/25/nyr…