2/ As this Timeline shows, Pecker's testimony should be strong proof of core allegation that the hush money scheme was geared toward influencing the outcome of the presidential election.
@joe_palazzolo @mrothfeld @rebeccadobrien @rebeccaballhaus 4/ Here's the passage from the NY Indictment indicating the evidence the DA - including through Pecker's own testimony - can present re the August 2015 Trump Tower meeting, which set the whole scheme in motion.
@joe_palazzolo @mrothfeld @rebeccadobrien @rebeccaballhaus 5/ Here's the "Statement of Admitted Facts" in David Pecker's AMI Company's Non-Prosecution Agreement (with the feds).⤵️
They admit to key facts that are now a part of the Trump criminal prosecution.
@joe_palazzolo @mrothfeld @rebeccadobrien @rebeccaballhaus 6/ Pecker will also likely testify about his involvement in flurry of phone calls, day after the Access Hollywood tape broke, to buy-and-bury Stormy Daniels' story.
Note the call logs. ⤵️
(including reporting from great book, The Fixers by @joe_palazzolo @mrothfeld)
@joe_palazzolo @mrothfeld @rebeccadobrien @rebeccaballhaus 7/ Pecker also likely to testify about his conversations directly with Trump and Cohen in December 2016 - on the arrangement for Trump to reimburse Cohen for the hush money payment to Daniels.
@joe_palazzolo @mrothfeld @rebeccadobrien @rebeccaballhaus 8/ David Pecker's likely dynamite evidence of nexus between hush money scheme and effort to influence election includes:
"In the summer of 2017, the Defendant invited the AMI CEO to the White House for a dinner to thank him for his help during the campaign." (DA indictment doc)
@joe_palazzolo @mrothfeld @rebeccadobrien @rebeccaballhaus 9/9 The NYT scoop (in first post in this tweet thread) is by Ben Protess and @Jonesieman.
He incriminates false electors by saying they went further than Chesebro intended.
He hides that Chesebro himself helped submit their false certificates, pushed the Pence plan through to the end on back of their certificates, and more.
3. See for yourself.
Here’s just a smidgen of the huge body of evidence.
Email correspondence from Chesebro on submitting the false certificates. Dec 15 and Jan 4.⤵️
Source: documents obtained in Penebaker v. Hitt settlement brought by @GeorgetownICAP @lawfwd @Stafford_Law.
3/ Link to the court filing (remarkably a joint filing by Donald Trump and Michael Cohen): admitting to the facts of Trump's reimbursement of Cohen for hush money to Stormy Daniels:
I discussed why two documents shown by prosecutors on Monday in the Trump trial are "close to being smoking guns."
On @OutFrontCNN.
The Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg document is truly mind blowing.
2/ Get this 🤯:
Trump CFO's contemporaneous handwritten notes recording the underlying scheme - the true reason for payments to Michael Cohen - are written on a copy of the bank account showing the $130,000 hush money wired on Oct. 27 to Stormy Daniels' lawyer!
3/ What else do you notice about the bank statement?
It indicates the bank account was set up for this sole purpose.
- Shows total funds of $130,000 for the hush money plus $1K to cover wire transfer fee etc.
- Appears to have opened account a day before the wire transfer.
A former president of the United States was held to be in Criminal Contempt for "willful disobedience of a court's lawful mandate" by attacking witnesses and jurors in a criminal proceeding.
Court's finding based on beyond a reasonable doubt.
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2/ Justice Merchan's well-reasoned, balanced opinion has two additional important notes.
First, he not only warns the Defendant, Mr. Trump, about jail time for future violations. He explains this may be required because fines ($1k per violation) won't be effective in this case.
3/ As part of his balanced opinion, Justice Merchan appears to call out Michael Cohen (and perhaps Stormy Daniels).
The judge explains their use of the gag order to publicly go after Trump while he cannot respond may result in judge excluding them from the order's protections⬇️
Due to Trump attorney's concessions in Supreme Court oral argument, there's now a very clear path for DOJ's case to go forward.
It'd be a travesty for Justices to delay matters further.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett got Trump attorney to concede core allegations are private acts.⬇️
2/ Justice Barrett rounds this out with her final question:
She gets USG attorney to say there's enough of these private acts to move forward, and Trump's conduct involving pressuring DOJ, Pence etc would be used just for evidentiary value not criminally liable for those acts.⬇️
3/ Here are the three bullets in USG brief that Justice Barrett gets Trump attorney to concede are private acts that enjoy no immunity whatsoever.⤵️
And note text before the bullets, which Justice Barrett goes over with USG attorney solidifying DOJ can prosecute on this basis.