Trump's lawyers filed a lightly redacted (per protective order) motion yesterday again outlining the parties they believe are part of the prosecution team.
These agencies have fingerprints on the initial DOJ investigation and Jack Smith's. The redactions are...interesting:
Not sure what these redactions are--related to Bill Barr perhaps?
As I covered last week, (JP) Cooney and (Molly) Gaston are now on Jack Smith's team. They wrote a letter to Barr blasting him for modifying SOP for election investigations describing claims of election fraud as "conspiracy theories"
More redactions related to FBI. Recall that D'Antuono (first name Steve, not Mike) headed up Detroit FBI field office during Whitmer fednapping then promoted to WFO a few months before Jan 6.
In April 2022, FBI opened two investigations into Trump: J6 and classified docs
Records under the purview of DHS are still buried. Also, we never found out what happened to all the relevant Secret Service texts (USSS under DHS) that were deleted after Jan 6 and never retrieved.
Not redacted but of interest.
Milley was highly involved in domestic law enforcement affairs before and on J6, which is verboten. He also told J6 committee he classified all his J6-related records after that day.
This, among other issues, is why he will never testify at trial despite claims by Jack Smith and Judge Chutkan he is a potential witness.
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New: To no one's surprise, Judge Chutkan, in typical hyperbolic fashion, denied Trump's motion to dismiss Jack Smith's J6 indictment on constitutional and immunity grounds.
Her "king" reference is the same language she used in her 2021 order forcing Trump to turn over records to J6 committee:
Bwahahaha - breathe -- bwahahaha ok judge
Nope she has not already made up her mind on the charges. Not at all!
Recall she recently denied Trump's motion to strike inflammatory language from Smith's indictment. Now we know why--she adopts them
Yetman served his country for YEARS. His FB profile bragged about being a "military police officer for the Army New Jersey National Guard." Does this sound like he was on the side of police or protesters that day?
All the doctored screenshots in the world (in FBI affidavit) can't distort the fact Yetman aimed a discarded can of gas (property of DC police) on protesters. He aimed ABOVE line of cops:
After the break, I returned to my seat in courtroom only to find someone in my seat next to her. I told him to move. He resisted but I forced him to move. Court staff did nothing—after hearing was over, he stalked her to elevator when finally a guard realized what was happening.
The guard refused to allow the psycho in the elevator with us. When we got to 1st floor, he was there taking pictures. When we told guard, he finally made the man leave. Then she spoke to media outside where she was again heckled and harassed.
NEW: Thread on Samuel Lazar, subject of sealed court proceedings related to his plea, sentencing, and release from custody for his involvement in Jan 6. Coalition of major news corps asking Judge Berman Jackson to unseal the case; DOJ admits he cooperated with govt:
Matthew Graves filed a heavily redacted motion objecting to unsealing the case. As others have noted, this is highly unusual. Lazar was arrested on numerous serious charges and denied release in July 2021.
Some background here. Of course his presence at GOP events, especially Doug Mastriano, created lots of explosive headlines especially for Mastriano as he prepared to run for U.S. Senate huffpost.com/entry/samuel-l…
NEW RAY EPPS: Surveillance video shows Epps involved in the second breach of Capitol grounds after participating in 1st breach moments before. This incident creates opening for protesters on west terrace, which coincides with start of joint session of Congress at 1pm.
WATCH:
Epps touches part of a metal fence as police attempt to pull it up. Contrary to his testimony and DOJ report, Epps was not helping police. It appears that Epps stays behind 2 individuals standing on the fallen fence.
I am told mishandling a fence is an act of terror.
So the only individual who appears to be involved in orchestrating two key breach points is Ray Epps.
Epps text to nephew at 2:12p.m on Jan 6: "I also orchestrated it."