Trump should have business cards printed: Deceit, Trickery, and Dishonesty Social.
DOJ argues that Trump's bully pulpit means his was not just one voice among millions, as he himself bragged about -- but in any case, it's a matter for trial.
On the same day Trump is testifying about whether his fraud at Trump Org mattered, DOJ included this line in his DC case.
I hope someone with interns is keeping a running tally of how many times Haldeman gets cited in this case.
The Conspiracy to Defraud section is, unsurprisingly, heavy on fake electors. Here, Jeffrey Clark gets glancing mention.
Shorter DOJ: Sure. If you want us to ALSO charge you with false statements, we can do that too.
DOJ making good use of the pain sweat and tears that got them to Fischer.
Been waiting since at least August 2021 to see how DOJ would argue this.
And now making good use of the pain sweat and tears to get to Robertson.
Florence Pan in the house...
I feel like this was the subject of weeks of discussion. And Trump just teed it up for them.
The definition of corruptly for 1512 is still very much a work in progress (but, I've argued, all foreseeable definitions apply to Trump). Which is why this passage is written this way.
Really legalistic way of saying it's illegal (under the Klan Act) to steal other people's right to vote.
Interesting cake-eating-too move here, to address that some of Trump's actions were committed as President.
Lots of Cheap Dates have been making a 1A argument since this indictment. This is how DOJ dealt with it, unsurprisingly.
Honestly, I may develop a hobby of laughing at the way DOJ and legal commentators make fun of John Lauro for his misuse of citations.
Holy shit! Dead-Prigozhin's trolls even made it in here.
Get used to seeing this passage. Lauro is making a bid, in this and 2 other motions, for Alito and Thomas to treat this as right wing speech. This is how DOJ will address it over and over.
This goes to the core of every legal case against Trump.
Mackey, which will be appealed but bc Mackey is not a former President, may not get there first, gets a shout out.
This is where DOJ compares Trump's historical analogies, starting with 1800, begins, for the historians in the crowd.
Also, she claims there has been little judicial scrutiny of this, ignoring the 4 precedents and Hunter Biden's similar challenge rejected by 2 Trump appointees.
1) We've talked about little but Biden's age since January. Yet certain hacks with a gripe claim they were the only one telling that secret that led all the news.
2) CREDIBLE stories -- that is, the ones that quote people on the record and/or very specifically described people anon, rather than just inventing a conspiracy retroactively based on feels -- all describe a decline since January, and more in recent months.
3) MANY of the people posing as journalists appear not to understand there are two questions: Does he drop from the race, does he drop from the presidency.
Given that the more detailed reports are about STAMINA and speaking (not dementia), those are different things.
Aileen Cannon is doing her best to prevent a trial before the election, but by all means make sure we get more pictures like this one (my annotations). This box had the most sensitive docs found.
DOJ reiterates their assertion that the cover sheets in the famous photo, AND close to 50 empty cover folders, were in the blue leatherbound box when they found it.
Let's correct the false claims here. 1) Egypt National Bank convinced Beryl Howell they complied with this subpoena -- it's unclear how the Chinese records resolved. 2) Mueller didn't tank this investigation. After a long subpoena fight, he handed it over to DCUSAO.
3) That's precisely the same thing he did with Roger Stone investigation: After year-long subpoena delay, he handed over still ongoing investigation into whether Stone conspired w/RU on CFAA. 4) We know what happened to Stone investigation: Barr killed it, Trump killed it more.
5) We don't know, for sure, what happened to suspected Egyptian funding (via way of China??) investigation; it was killed in same weeks when Barr was killing most of the rest of Mueller. It's possible that refusal to subpoena Trump Org killed it.
There was an iPhone--one central to the gun case against Hunter--saved ONLY in iTunes (not iCloud), and protected by a password. Ziegler admits he accessed it -- lots of journos have relied on him doing so. Q is whether doing so was accessing Hunter's data.
It'll be an interesting legal case (Ziegler is arguing that bc Hunter never owned the hard drive on which he, Ziegler, obtained the PWD-protected iPhone content, it is not Hunter's data). But it'll be still more interesting discovery.