Thread by @emptywheel

Just starting on Jack Smith's immunity briefing. Do these claims look familiar?

documentcloud.org/documents/2518…

One reason Trump wanted these identities to be more obscure is he's trying to hide that people STILL working for him knew he lost in 2020.

P2: Campaign Manager
P3: Deputy Campaign Manager
P4: Senior Campaign Advisor

One of these people is Jason Miller, for example, still lying on TV for Trump.

Here's the tweet where Trump IDs CC1 and CC3 (which we knew) and P10-12 as DiGenova, Toensing, and Jenna Ellis.

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1327811527123103746

P9 is Eric Herschmann. Smith spends a bit of time with this story, bc Herschmann's caution abt Hatch Act is his basis for treating this as non-official. Obv P13 is unlucky Jared Kushner and P14, I assume, is Ivanka.

Here, Jack Smith taunts Rudy about not getting paid. I suspect that Herschmann is one of the people whose texts Trump's lawyers wanted to make sure they had--I suspect that Herschmann is not as reliable as he made himself to J6C and, now, Smith.

Just a WAG.

Smith cites a bunch of convos with Pence. Importantly, he sources SOME of these to BOTH Pence's interviews (presumably), and Pence's book. Lookup what @AnnaBower said about footnote 3 of the immunity ruling on public evidence.

@AnnaBower Here's that post on why PUBLIC evidence is important.

lawfaremedia.org/article/what-s…

Note that this logic -- That Trump only intervened in states he lost -- puts the state he won most closely in the hotseat: North Carolina, which is in play this year.

Smith airs Trump's attacks on Doug Ducey (P16) and Brian Kemp (P17).

P19 is Christina Bobb. When Trump said most of this was public, it was a complaint that Jack Smith is relying on J6C.

documentcloud.org/documents/2352…

This stuff comes from Fani Willis' indictment.

Again, Trump's lawyers are going to argue that everyone is in cahoots.

Deleted ref to Lindsey. P26 is a former GA Senator, possble Loeffler.

Trump's flunkies have tried SO HARD to pretend Trump hasn't attacked Brian Kemp and now this.

Note: large swaths of this brief come from J6C. Which is why Trump's lawyers are claiming this is all joint lawfare.

He'll use it to go after @Liz_Cheney, which could get fun.

Oh nooooooooooo!!
Jack Smith didn't put Tucker Carlson in here, did he?

CC3 is Sidney Powell
C3 is Dominion

P51 SURELY can't be Tucker because he has no personality.

Alright, this is genuinely important. Trump mocked Sidney Powell with -- I think -- Tucker Carlson. This is important when it goes to SCOTUS.

I mean, yeah, Tucker. That's where we are.

John Roberts: You can't use any evidence from government employees.

Jack Smith: Fine. We'll use Trump's reactions from when @C_C_Krebs went on 60 Minutes after Trump fired him by tweet.

😘

One way Jack Smith raised the import of Sidney Powell's conspiracy theories about Dominion was by pointing to how they showed up in Jan6 speeches.

Here's an example of Jack Smith saying, if WH people (P21 is Meadows) use their personal emails, it's not official business.

The government is saying that Trump's tweet attacking Pence is non-official, his tweets asking people to leave are official.

IF this gets to trial or anywhere close, this invites Trump to demand that more of this come in as evidence.

A big IF yet.

Here's Jack Smith's bid to rely on Dan Scavino's testimony. It may not work, but it's interesting insight into how his Twitter account worked.