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@rparloff
Dec 1 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
In the FBI probe that led to the US v Trump classified docs case, a former Trump Adm witness identified as Person 16 described another former Trump Adm member, Person 24, as “unhinged” & “crazy.” Person 24 shares many traits of, and may be, Kash Patel. ...
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Person 16 told the FBI, e.g., that Trump had no standing order to declassify the docs that were removed & no one would say otherwise with the possible exception of Person 24. (Patel has claimed that Trump did declassify the docs that were removed.) ...
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... Person 16 also said that Person 24 sought a position that he was “not qualified for,” but was “under real consideration” for it nevertheless. @Charlie_Savage notes that Bill Barr says Trump wanted Patel as dep. FBI director but Barr blocked it. ...
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@charlie_savage ... Other redacted docs in the classified docs probe identify Person 24 as an atty who was represented by Stan Woodward & who had earlier worked for a Congressman. Patel is an atty who was rep’d by Woodward & worked for then-Rep. Nunes. ...
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@charlie_savage ... ... The entire redacted interview with Person 16, including his observations about Person 24, whom he considered to be “unhinged” and “crazy,” is here:
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Nov 20
Here’s what DA Bragg (DANY) did yesterday in People v Trump, which is actually complicated. Requires understanding Trump’s position—which was also more fully revealed yesterday—& the weird & close-to-hopeless posture of case. ...
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... As of the election, Trump was facing an 11/12 ruling by Justice Merchan on whether SCOTUS’s US v Trump immunity principles required a new trial (IMMUNITY QUESTION A) &, if not, sentencing on 11/26. But, on 11/8, Trump’s attys wrote DANY saying they’d ...
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... file a motion on 11/11 seeking a stay of all proceedings for 2 reasons. REASON 1 was that they would file a second motion to dismiss based on immunity (IMMUNITY QUESTION B). That one would assert that a president-elect has all the immunities of a sitting president ...
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Nov 16
Though late, I want to highlight the case of Zachary Alam, who was sentenced to 8 yrs on 11/7—tied for 16th longest prison term for a J6 defendant. His case shows how Trump’s election lies foreseeably impacted troubled individuals & led to the death of Ashli Babbitt. ...
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... On J6, Alam was almost 30. He had about 20 arrests, mainly drug or alcohol related. He’d graduated from UVa, but dropped out of osteopathic med school in 2015. His father then disowned him, per his mother. Eventually he was living out of a storage unit & his truck ...
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... He would shower at a gym each morning, his atty later wrote. Then Covid hit & gyms closed. His atty’s supplemental sentencing memo—heavily redacted—suggests Alam may also suffer from a long-term medical or psychological issue. ...
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Nov 3
I’ll unpack here my unintelligible thread from last night about Judge Howell’s ruling on the scope of the felony charge “obstruction of an official proceeding” (18 USC 1512c2) after Fischer v US. It impacts many Jan. 6 cases but has only minor impact on US v Trump, IMHO ...
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... The ruling concerns two Proud Boys, Nick DeCarlo & Nick Ochs, who pleaded guilty to 1512c2 in 2022 to satisfy an indictment alleging 2 felonies & 4 misdemeanors. After SCOTUS narrowed the scope of 1512c2 last June, they petitioned for release ...
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... In Fischer, SCOTUS held that the law doesn’t apply to rioters who obstruct a hearing by force. It only applies to those who obstruct a hearing (or try to) by “impairing” the “integrity” or “availability” of docs to be used at a proceeding. ...
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Oct 29
NBC asks Judge Chutkan for right to televise US v Trump immunity determination hearings in DC, which "go to the strcuture of American democracy" & “may be [among] most important arguments ever made before any US court.” ...
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... NBC argues that American public has "extraordinary interest" in seeing hearings involving allegations that Trump, "a current nominee for reelection to the Presidency, sought to destroy our nation's democracy for personal benefit." ...
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... "The public should be permitted to see & hear the argument ... that will determine who is subject to the law, and to what extent." ...
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Oct 27
Regarding @WashingtonPost owner @JeffBezos’s blocking the paper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris, this thread aims to flesh out Trump’s history of attacks on Bezos & show how Trump’s past unchecked abuses are already chilling free speech ...
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... In 2019, the cloud computing unit of Bezos’ Amazon, known as AWS, sued the Defense Dept. It alleged that Trump used “improper pressure” to steer a $10bn DoD contract away from AWS to punish Bezos for the Post’s tough coverage of him ... ...
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... I wrote about the suit in @YahooFinance at the time here . But the tl:dr is as follows.
Because of probing Post coverage, in Feb 2016, candidate Trump vowed to “screw Amazon” if he won. “They’re going to have such problems.” ...
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Oct 20
DOJ must make a sensitive decision soon. On Thurs., accused would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh moved to recuse Judge Aileen Cannon in his case. Does DOJ oppose—undercutting notions of reassigning the US v Trump (MaL) case? Support? Take no position?
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... DOJ knows that criminal defs are constantly trying to judge-shop. Recusal standards are & need to be high. Trump himself has tried to recuse USDJs Chutkan (DC) & Kaplan (SDNY, in E Jean Carroll cases), as well as Engoron, Merchan, & Willis in state courts. ...
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... It’s clear that a judge’s appointment by a prez who’s a party is not disqualifying. Chief Judge Pryor (11th Cir) has already said so in rebuffing an ill-conceived write-in campaign to oust Cannon from US v Trump for “misconduct.” ...
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