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Dec 24 4 tweets 2 min read
|@KateBolduan asked me: "What evidence is most damning" in #January6thReport?

I discuss specific, brand new evidence of Trump and Meadows directing false electors effort.

A key one is Ronna McDaniel's call to Trump to say she accepts HIS request to help organize the effort.
2. The other points I discuss are contained here.👇

Including Trump campaign Associate General Counsel telling committee:

Trump "made it clear that Rudy was in charge of this [false electors] and that Rudy was executing what he wanted.”

justsecurity.org/84551/importan…
3. As for Meadows's criminal liability for false electors scheme.

Week of November 18:

Meadows gets "a spreadsheet that the Trump Campaign had compiled. It listed contact information for nearly all of the 79 GOP nominees" who could serve as false electors (#January6thReport).
4 What did Meadows do with spreadsheet?

Ans: Got himself in legal trouble

Cassidy Hutchinson:

"confirmed Meadows’s significant involvement in the plan"
"Meadows followed the progress of the fake elector effort closely"
"frequently having calls, meetings, and outreach"
"Dozens”

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More from @rgoodlaw

Dec 23
As I discussed with @ErinBurnett @OutFrontCNN, it’s 100% a crime if Trump-affiliated lawyer Mr. Passantino said to Cassidy Hutchinson what she testified.

= suborning perjury

Only question is if DOJ could prove it.

As discussed, looks like significant proof at hand…

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2. Evidence

Hutchinson _contemporaneously_ confided in a friend about what Passantino was telling her to do.

Per CNN (@jamiegangel @jaketapper @jeremyherb @elizabethstuart reporting)👇

cnn.com/2022/12/22/pol…
3. Evidence

Hutchinson _contemporaneously_ confided in former Trump WH official @Alyssafarah and former Republican Congresswoman @BarbaraComstock obtaining their assistance to address what Passantino was telling her to do.

Per NYT @DraperRobert reporting
nytimes.com/2022/07/10/us/…
Read 8 tweets
Dec 19
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 ...”
Read 6 tweets
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

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