Here's the Tl;dr on whether CC6 is Mike Roman or Boris Epshteyn. Could be either. Both were involved in the specific things in the paragraphs.
We're all BETTER OFF if it's Boris (and if Roman is cooperating, as some had claimed). Bc that causes Trump 2 worlds of hurt.
1) As I've been saying since Jan, LOTS of people have exposure on one of Trump's crime, both not the other. There's good reason to believe it has made people more cooperative.
Boris could well have both.
2) Boris and Trump share a lawyer. Trump doesn't need anymore transition in his legal team.
Let's talk about how these two work together: Who's the most important witness to date on stolen documents?
Molly Michael.
She remembered NOTHING about Jan6 when J6C questioned her. If she got less forgetful bc of the stolen docs, wow!
Several ¶¶ in J6 indictment rely on her.
Several of the people who started off really cooperative on the stolen docs case have real exposure on the campaign finance fraud side.
There's been far too little consideration of how these will feed each other (and may have influenced timing).
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Because there are a lot of new people showing an interest in January 6 prosecutions for some reason, I wanted to share the BOILERPLATE that DOJ uses for obstruction defendants -- people just like Donald Trump charged with obstructing the vote certification.
These come from Hostetter--a bunch of guys, who like Donald Trump, didn't enter the Capitol itself but played a part in obstructing the vote count. But what I'm sharing is BOILERPLATE.
It has been used in dozens if not a hundred cases already.
This boilerplate includes two things. Always.
First, that DOJ can introduce people's own speech (on the obstruction count) for intent and motive.
Looks like when Strzok and Page's lawsuit goes to trial, we're going to learn details of how FBI Agents who send racist texts on their FBI devices don't get fired.
Also looks like we're going to learn that Chris Wray doesn't remember any of the meetings where firing Strzok and Page may have come up.
Now do you suppose he didn't take notes bc he didn't come up thru the Bureau or bc he knew Trump doesn't like people who take notes?
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Interjection: This is Strzok's response to DOJ's mandamus petition against Amy Berman Jackson, who ruled that Strzok can depose Trump for 2 hours on this issue.
TRUMP claims to remember his demands that Strzok be fired, even if Wray does not.
Gonna reup this bc there is a flood of ignorant bullshit about what the investigation took to get to this weeks' indictment. Here are the accounts that Rudy claimed (if you can believe him) he conducted his coup plotting on.
This alleged conspiracy was conducted BY LAWYERS using ENCRYPTED APPs.
If you read something about how long this investigation took that doesn't address those two facts, you can use it as kitty litter.
When a conspiracy is conducted BY LAWYERS on ENCRYPTED APPS, it means you have to go phone by phone (bc that's how you get the encrypted apps), and for each one conduct a privilege review.
.@ryanlcooper says that DOJ should have skipped the privilege reviews on the phones and email accounts of Trump's 5-6 lawyer co-conspirators, thereby guaranteeing DOJ lose the case.
@ryanlcooper I know you people don't REALIZE you're demanding really stupid things, including the violation of precisely the rules we're supposed to be upholding. But bc you're writing w/o learning fuckall about the case, that's what you're doing.
@ryanlcooper It took 9 months to do a privilege review of Rudy's phone. Lisa Monaco started that process LITERALLY on her first day on the job.
It took >12 months to get into Enrique Tarrio's phone, and he's not even a lawyer!!
DOJ has been trying w/Scott Perry's phone for a year ago.