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Ryan Goodman Profile picture
@rgoodlaw
Sep 2 • 8 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
1/ NEW and big revelations in Meadows’ hearing transcript.

Meadows testified he got involved in false electors scheme - why did he do it?

"Because I know I would get yelled at by" Trump if I didn't.

This will bolster prosecutors' cases

I discussed @OutFrontCNN w/@brikeilarcnn
2/ Several legal implications to these admissions by Meadows.

First, it directly implicates Trump with evidence of Trump's - intense - involvement in the false electors scheme.

Second, it is solid evidence that Trump got his White House chief of staff involved in the scheme...
3/

On left:

Meadows testimony that he got involved in the false electors scheme or else would suffer Trump's anger.

On right:

Hatch Act criminal provision that applies to Presidents - if they command or intimidate a federal employee to help a political candidate.
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4/ Third, Meadows' admission strips him of argument that his conduct was all within his duties as Chief of Staff.

He testified: "What I didn't want to happen was for the campaign to prevail in certain areas and then not have this" false electors option.

A huge admission.👇 Image
5/ As I explained @OutFrontCNN, Meadows' admission - his working on false electors to preserve options for Trump campaign - (1) undermines his aim to remove case to federal court and (2) guts his immunity defense.

It also has knock-on effects for Trump in those two respects.
@OutFrontCNN 6/ Plus here we discuss another part of Meadows' testimony that is gold for prosecutors.

"Actually, I asked Ms. [Cleta] Mitchell to come down and volunteer" to help Trump campaign in GA.

"Because I felt like WE needed a number of attorneys...because it was going to be close."
7/ Note how these admissions also contradict Meadows' attempt to claim he was trying to "land the plane" to move toward the transfer of power to Biden.

Helping set up the false electors as a backup plan is NOT landing the plane.
8/ Jack Smith may need to consider possible perjury charges.

In addition to what I noted yesterday.👇

The entire house of cards - falsely claiming all his conduct was pursuant to government duties - fell apart under cross examination.

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Ryan Goodman Profile picture
Aug 28
What a high risk gamble.

Mark Meadows takes the stand to support his motion to move Fulton County case to federal court.

Even this statement alone gets him into deeper trouble for involvement in the alleged conspiracy.👇
2. Mark Meadows testifies: "In my role as Chief of Staff, I recommended that the president reach out to Ms. Watson" (via @CNN report).

In his own words, that is an incriminating admission that he recommended Trump make the call to Watson that is part of the alleged conspiracy.👇 Image
3. More trouble for Meadows.

He admits he "had no reason to doubt Mr. Barr's" assessment that the fraud allegations were meritless.

Meadows adds that he believed at the time “further investigation” was still warranted. That's not enough to help him.

cnn.com/politics/live-…
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Ryan Goodman Profile picture
Aug 27
On Mark Meadows' fatal concession.

Great analysis by Walter Shaub, @NormEisen and @JoshuaGKolb

They explain why 2 pages of Meadows' court brief should prove fatal to his attempt to get Georgia trial into federal court or dismissed.

justsecurity.org/87859/the-hatc…
2.

a) Meadows has to prove the charged conduct was done under the “color of his office” (done with official authority).

b) The Hatch Act explicitly prohibited the use of his official authority to engage in the charged conduct.

Namely, to affect the result of an election.👇 Image
3. What is Meadows' fatal concession?

In these 2 pages,👇 his lawyers go on and on and on about how "all the substantive allegations in the Indictment concern unquestionably political activity.”

link: justsecurity.org/wp-content/upl…

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Ryan Goodman Profile picture
Aug 24
With eyes now pointed at Ken Chesebro's likely trial start date in Georgia.

Chesebro demanded: by Nov 3
DA Willis now replied: Oct 23!

He is making a risky gamble.

Example: Judge David Carter said of one of Chesebro's memos: It "likely furthered the crimes" in federal case.👇 Image
2. Many other problems facing Chesebro's defense.

Another example.

Ken Chesebro's own words in email to Georgia false electors:

Says Chesebro is tasked to "coordinate" false electors and "help with logistics."

"I drafted these documents" to mimic 2016 certificates.👇 Image
3. Here's the document of DA Fani Willis requesting Oct. 23, 2023 trial start date in response to Chesebro's demand for speedy trial start date by Nov. 3, 2023:

via @kyledcheney

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Ryan Goodman Profile picture
Aug 21
Watch this space.

Key conditions for Trump in this signed Bond Order for pretrial release in Georgia.👇

Explicitly includes re-posting social media posts by others.

Direct or indirect threats "of any nature" against witnesses, codefendants, victims.👇
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2/ Note how those conditions are tailored for former President Trump.

Compare to John Eastman's bond order, with similar conditions but not explicitly spelled out as such.👇
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3/ This may also prove a key condition for Trump's bond order:

"The Defendant shall perform no act to intimidate" witnesses or condefendants "or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice."

That covers judges and prosecutors.

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Ryan Goodman Profile picture
Aug 18
What a discovery!

Where was Kenneth Chesebro on January 6th?

“Videos reviewed by CNN show Chesebro with Jones in two sections of the restricted area around the Capitol cited in a federal indictment against Owen Shroyer.”

That could arm Jack Smith.

cnn.com/2023/08/18/pol…
2. On left:

CNN photographic evidence of Chesebro on location with Alex Jones at Capitol

On right:

FBI photographic evidence of Owen Shroyer on location with Alex Jones at Capitol

Same place. Same time.
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3. This does not seal Chesebro's fate but it certainly points it in one direction.

Prosecutors could threaten Chesebro with separate charges to press him to flip and cooperate.

Charges that come with enormous video evidence.
Charges that courts could handle quickly.
Read 10 tweets
Ryan Goodman Profile picture
Aug 15
P.S.A.

Yes, #GeorgiaIndictment is pardon proof.

BUT, But, but...

Supreme Court may well hold a sitting president is immune from trial/conviction.

Result: 18 co-defendants left holding the bag. Trump, if elected, immune (for 4 years).

Another reason for co-defendants to flip.
2/ The issue here is whether the Supreme Court would ratify the long-standing position of the Department Justice Office of Legal Counsel that, as a matter of law, an incumbent president is immune from criminal trial and conviction.

A few caveats...
3/ "The constitutional analysis may turn on whether a trial is already complete, and in the stages of post-conviction appellate litigation, which imposes less of a burden on a sitting president"

@NormEisen @JoshuaGKolb @StantonLaw Andrew Warren @SivenWatt
justsecurity.org/87647/what-to-…
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