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Dec 19 6 tweets 3 min read
1/ Co-conspirators in efforts to overturn election identified in #January6thCommittee Executive Summary:

1 Trump
2 Meadows
3 Giuliani
4 Eastman
5 Clark
6 Chesebro

Individuals involved in obstructing J6 investigation: Many.

Tony Ornato needs a very good defense attorney.👇
2. "Again, as with Section 1512(c), the conspiracy under Section 371 appears to have also included other individuals such as Chesebro, Rudolph Giuliani, and Mark Meadows, but this Committee does not attempt to determine all of the participants of the conspiracy..."
3. “Others working with Eastman likely share in Eastman’s culpability. For example, Kenneth Chesebro was a central player in the scheme to submit fake electors ...”
4. “With regard to the Department of Justice, Jeffrey Clark stands out as a participant in the conspiracy...”
5. “The Committee believes sufficient evidence exists for a criminal referral of John Eastman and certain other Trump associates under 18 U.S.C. §1512(c).”
6/6. See my coming analysis @just_security this afternoon.

Hint: How the January 6th committee's NEW evidence enables Special Counsel Smith's criminal investigations.

Stay tuned.

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More from @rgoodlaw

Dec 16
With news that the #January6th Sub-committee has proposed criminal referral of Trump for, among other statutes, 18 USC 2383 (assisting an Insurrection) (@kyledcheney @nicholaswu12 reporting)

Read this expert analysis of why that statute might best fit.

justsecurity.org/82713/seditiou…
2. Report by @kyledcheney @nicholaswu12:

“Among the charges that subcommittee proposes for Trump: 18 U.S.C. 2383 Insurrection; 18 U.S.C. 1512(c) obstruction of an official proceeding; and 18 U.S.C. 371 Conspiracy to defraud the United States government.”
politico.com/news/2022/12/1…
3. Plus a second article by same criminal law expert @UChicagoLaw’s Al Alschuler:

justsecurity.org/82696/trump-an…
Read 5 tweets
Dec 8
This just reached a whole new level of seriousness.

"Prosecutors have urged a federal judge to hold Donald Trump’s office in contempt of court for failing to fully comply with a May subpoena."

Adds significantly to likelihood of indictments.

washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12…
2. "One of the key areas of disagreement centers on the Trump legal team’s repeated refusal to designate a custodian of records to sign a document attesting that all classified materials have been returned."

via @hsu_spencer @jdawsey1 @JaxAlemany @DevlinBarrett @PostRoz
3. It appears the issue might boil down to this:

Trump's attorneys are scared to put their name behind an attestation that all the documents have been returned.

Why?

"Some of Trump’s lawyers are also wary of making any claim under oath based on Trump’s word alone."
Read 4 tweets
Dec 7
More classified docs found!

At "a storage unit in West Palm Beach, Fla., used by the former president."

In search conducted (by firm) after DC federal judge recently demanded Trump side attest to having turned over all classified docs in his possession.
washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
2. "Its presence there indicates Mar-a-Lago was not the only place where Trump kept classified material."

"The unit was needed to store items that had been held at an office in Northern Virginia used by Trump staffers in the months just after he left office."
3. Reminder that since at least early October, one of the reasonable new attorneys on the case, Christopher Kise, advised setting up this kind of firm to search for such documents.👇

But he was rebuffed by Trump team, and then sidelined from MAL defense.
nytimes.com/2022/10/06/us/…
Read 5 tweets
Nov 17
With team of astounding colleagues, we published the culmination of massive undertaking:

United States v. Donald J. Trump
A Model DOJ Prosecution Memo in Mar-a-Lago Investigation

169-page document
Catalogues and compares all prior case DOJ prosecuted...
justsecurity.org/84168/mar-a-la…
2. "The authors have decades of experience as federal prosecutors and defense lawyers, as well as other legal expertise. Based upon this experience and the analysis that follows, we conclude that there is a strong basis to charge Trump."

Key: Tables of DOJ precent. ImageImageImage
3. What do ALL these past Espionage Act prosecutions tell us?

"The DOJ precedent indicates that to decline to bring a case against Trump would be treating Trump far more favorably than other defendants, which would be antithetical to the rule of law and the ... Justice Manual."
Read 8 tweets
Nov 2
With this news including Eastman emails discussing Justice Thomas ...

Worth recalling judge had ordered Eastman emails with Ginni Thomas be turned over because they involved activities that "furthered a critical objective of the January 6 plan" to overturn the election. Image
2. Eastman emails revealed today were about getting Justice Thomas for Georgia litigation.

Recall: Ginni Thomas' text to Meadows:

“Listen to ... Cleta.”

Cleta Mitchell was focused on overturning results in Georgia.

via @realBobWoodward @costareports
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
3. That Ginni Thomas text to Meadows was on Nov. 10.

How did Meadows respond?

One minute later, Meadows responded: “I will stand firm. We will fight until there is no fight left. Our country is too precious to give up on. Thanks for all you do.”

washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
Read 6 tweets
Oct 20
1/ This is a big deal.

CNN Scoop (by @kpolantz @ZcohenCNN), which I just discussed on @OutFrontCNN with @ErinBurnett

"[Kash] Patel spent several hours" before DC grand jury on MAL investigation.

<thread>
cnn.com/2022/10/20/pol…
2. A key question I'd bet federal prosecutors asked Patel:

Were you acting as an agent of, or in concert with, Donald J. Trump when you described, repeatedly, Trump's plan to publicly disseminate the documents.

Reupping this analysis I wrote.

justsecurity.org/82723/trump-as…
3. That @just_security article built off of the scoop published by @abcnews (@wsteaks @alex_mallin
@KFaulders)

abcnews.go.com/US/weeks-mar-l…
.
Read 7 tweets

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