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Kyle Cheney

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Apr 22, 2024 • 11 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X

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There's some wild stuff in this newly unsealed (but heavily redacted) FBI interview from a high-level Trump-world person related to the classified docs investigation.

For example: the witness was afraid to have the interview recorded for fear of reprisal storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

And while the interview is primarily about the docs investigation, this person apparently witnessed Jeff Clark hand Trump the letter about Georgia electors: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

This person has a very low opinion of "person 24," who apparently tried to overplay a relationship with Trump and pushed the post-hoc claims that Trump had "declassified everything." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

This appears to be describing an attempt to leverage Trump family members to push him to return classified docs: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

It won't take long for people to crowdsource the identities of many of the people redacted from these documents. It's pretty easy to decipher a good number of them to a high degree of certainty, which speaks to why Jack Smith wanted more significant redactions/sealing

In a passage about how Trump's legal team came together, there's a detail that someone "dressed like" someone/something else in Trump's line of sight until they got hired. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

The newly unsealed docs include a helpful breakdown of the classified records found in the initial tranche of boxes provided by Trump to NARA in Jan. 2022. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

FBI had some concerns about DOJ/Jay Bratt's antagonistic relationship with Trump lawyers, so asked to lead on the Mar-a-Lago search in order to keep it "professional" and "low key." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Here's the FBI's minute-by-minute account of the Mar-a-Lago search and coordination with the Secret Service. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

FBI discussed doing "loose surveillance" of Trump plane to see if he took any boxes with him from Mar-a-Lago on the day DOJ attorneys went down to meet him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Fun detail: The FBI codename for the Trump documents probe was "Plasmic Echo." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

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Kyle Cheney

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Mar 5

JUST IN: A trove of emails posted tonight in court reveal the utter chaos unleashed at the CFPB after Acting Director Russ Vought ordered a total work stoppage on Feb. 10. Mass cancelation of contracts soon followed. documentcloud.org/documents/2555…

The order set off panic and confusion among staff with legally required responsibilities -- they warned that complaints were being ignored despite laws requiring them to advance and records were at risk of deletion depsite legal obligations to retain them .

The emails then show that after a lawsuit was filed describing the potential illegality of the stoppage, Vought's top allies at CFPB scrambled to restart legally required work and unfreeze contracts

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Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney

Mar 4

NEW: The Justice Department has spent the last week arguing that Donald Trump’s pardon for Jan. 6 defendants covers totally unrelated crimes — from possessing guns to grenades to classified info.

Four federal courts are pushing back.

politico.com/news/2025/03/0…

The courts are particularly curious about DOJ’s abrupt reversal. In mid-February, prosecutors forcefully rejected the notion that Trump’s pardon covered non-J6 crimes. Within days, they reversed course.

politico.com/news/2025/03/0…

DOJ’s position is that Trump intended to pardon J6ers:

-Jeremy Brown: Convicted for illegally possessing grenades, guns and classified info
-Benjamin Martin: Convicted for possessing guns despite history of domestic violence
-Elias Costianes: Convicted for possession of guns
-Dan Wilson: Convicted for possession of guns

But NOT to pardon J6ers:

-David Daniel for possession of child pornography
-Edward Kelley for conspiring to kill his investigators
-Taylor Taranto for threat-related charges

Courts are confused about how the language of Trump’s broad pardon leads to this result and what role they have in interpreting it.

politico.com/news/2025/03/0…

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Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney

Feb 22

🧵CUTTING ROOM FLOOR from the return of prominent J6 defendants to the Capitol, shortly before Enrique Tarrio’s arrest on a simple assault charge.

It started at the base of the west front

The group included: Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, who had been sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy

There were Joe Biggs and Ethan Nordean, who led 100s of Proud Boys to the Capitol on Jan. 6 and were imprisoned for 17-18 years until Trump committed their sentences

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Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney

Feb 21

BREAKING: USCP is arresting Enrique Tarrio for swiping his hand at a counterprotester who got in his face.

Tarrio had just left a press conference at the Capitol with dozens of pardoned Jan. 6 defendants announcing plans to sue DOJ. He was exchanging info with a photographer when the incident occurred.

Here’s the group just before the press conference, which drew a small number of (loud) counterprotesters

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Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney

Feb 18

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in a court affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from Washington. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late.

The employee, identified only as Terry Doe, says he’s been in touch with 25 other pregnant foreign service officers who are fearful their care will be cut off if the agency closes down completely on March 8.

Full affidavit from "Terry Doe" here: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2553…

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Kyle Cheney

@kyledcheney

Feb 14

WOW: Judge Reyes just absolutely tore into the lawyers for the fired IGs, saying they waited 21 days to file suit and then demanded emergency same-day relief.

She forced them to withdraw their TRO motion and threatened them with sanctions.

Reyes was livid that the lawyers for the IGs compared their case to the recently decided case of fired ethics watchdog Hampton Dellinger. She pointed out why those cases are nothing alike and wondered why the IGs would even try to compare them.

MORE: When Reyes asked DOJ if they wanted to weigh in the attorney, having just watched the obliteration of his adversary, meekly replied, "Um, ah, nothing from the government." Smart move.

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