BREAKING: THREAD: Jack Smith has roughy FIFTY pages of notes taken by Corcoran pertaining to the documents case. He got them using the CRIME-FRAUD exception to pierce atty-client privilege. The notes have been described to The Guardian’s @hugolowell 1/ theguardian.com/us-news/2023/m…
First, Donald was TOLD by Corcoran that he could not legally retain classified documents after the May 11, 2022 subpoena. That’s in the hand-written notes the special counsel now has. 2/
The notes also contain information on where Corcoran did and did not search for classified documents, and when he searched. The notes show Corcoran told Walt Nauta about the subpoena because Corcoran had Nauta unlock the storage room for the search. 3/
Nauta offered to help with the search, but Corcoran said no. There were times when the room may have been LEFT UNATTENDED as Corcoran took breaks searching. That’s per the notes Corcoran took that special counsel now has. 4/
The notes are so detailed, they even describe trump’s facial expressions and reactions whenever they discussed the subpoena. There’s a LOT more to this story. Read it here, follow @hugolowell and support The Guardian. END/ theguardian.com/us-news/2023/m…
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NEW: I HAVE QUESTIONS: THREAD: First, trump lawyer Parlatore told CNN in March he was NOT subpoenaed - or at least, that’s what CNN reported. Source: 1/ amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/24…
But this past Wednesday, Alan Feuer and @maggieNYT at the Times reported he HAD been subpoenaed. Which made more sense to me because what kind of person goes and talks to a federal grand jury without being subpoenaed? Source: nytimes.com/2023/05/17/us/…
Now today, Parlatore told @PaulaReidCNN he was NOT subpoenaed and just felt like he had to go in and explain stuff to a federal grand jury about the classified document searches he coordinated at trump’s other properties. (Source: I just watched him say that). 3/
BREAKING: Parlatore tells @PaulaReidCNN that Epshteyn interfered with a court-compelled search of Bedmisnter for classified documents. Parlatore recently resigned from trump’s legal team months after testifying pursuant to a subpoena from Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Parlatore on why he resigned says it didn’t have anything to do with the case itself, but that certain individuals made defending trump much harder than it needed to be. In particular: Boris Epshteyn.
Parlatore says Epshteyn served as a kind of filter that prevented information from getting to trump. In addition to interfering with the searches, Boris prevented him from engaging in a strategy to defend trump against garland and Jack Smith.
NEW: THREAD: the NYT reporting confirming Parlatore quit has some new, important details. First, Parlatore anticipated two days ago that he would be leaving, and left on good terms. That suggests he wasn’t fired and probs didn’t want to leave. (I’m speculating.) 1/
Also new: Parlatore WAS subpoenaed by Jack Smith. Previous reporting says he went VOLUNTARILY. And he was kind of a cocky dick about it. Check out what he told CNN. Then see the brand new NYT report saying he was subpoenaed. So that’s fun! 2/
Another detail: Parlatore is the one that wrote the letter to congress asking them to tell DoJ to STAND DOWN b/c “we just hastily packed and if Donald took anything it was an accident.” But Donald blew a hole in that defense during his town hall. Did he lie to the GJ? 3/
NEW: CW/Sexual assault: a former employee of Rudy Giuliani is suing him under the New York Adult Survivor’s act for rape. According to the lawsuit, he forced her to give him oral sex DURING phone calls with important people. 1/
Sometimes this would happen when Rudy was strategizing with Trump on how to stop Mueller. 2/
The lawsuit goes into a lot of detail about Rudy’s constant drinking. 3/
Going through some old stuff. Here’s me on the inside cover of San Diego Music Matters in May, 2005. At the time, I wrote the Soundvogue music column for the Lavender Lens, an LGBTQ+ publication. I was also in a band. 1/
I got to interview KD Lang. 2/
And They Might Be Giants, who now do the music for my podcast almost 20 years later. @tmbg 3/
NEW: George SANTOS has been charged with 13 counts of wire fraud, unlawful monetary transactions exceeding $10K, theft of public money, wire fraud for fraudulent receipt of unemployment, and false statements. Here’s the 5 counts of wire fraud 18 U.S. Code § 1343: 20 years max
Here’s the 3 counts of unlawful transactions under 18 U.S. Code § 1957: max sentence 10 years: 2/
Here’s where he stole unemployment from New Yorkers. Since the aggregate exceeding $1000, the max sentence is 10 years in prison. 3/