Special Counsel is looking at *everyone* involved it seems.
>In addition to the officials described in the new filing, Smith has interviewed nearly every senior official in Trump’s West Wing, from Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone to Vice President Mike Pence. He has also obtained records from the National Archives, state governments and dozens of GOP leaders and activists who were involved in Trump’s effort to send slates of fraudulent presidential electors to Congress.
> In support of his Motion to Compel, the defendant suggests that the Government relied
only on a selection of politically biased officials (ECF No. 167 at 1-2), but he does not and cannot
substantiate this theatrical claim. To the contrary, **as the defendant is aware from the discovery
that has been provided, the Government asked every pertinent witness**—including the former DNI,
former Acting Secretary of DHS, former Acting Deputy Secretary of DHS, former CISA Director,
former Acting CISA Director, former CISA Senior Cyber Counsel, former National Security
Advisor (“NSA”), former Deputy NSA, former Chief of Staff to the National Security Council,
former Chairman of the Election Assistance Commission (“EAC”), Presidential Intelligence
Briefer, former Secretary of Defense, and former senior DOJ leadership—**if they were aware of
any evidence that a domestic or foreign actor flipped a single vote in a voting machine during the
presidential election. The answer from every single official was no.**
> the defendant’s effort to blame law enforcement for the riot of
which they were victims fares no better than the attempt of a bank robber to blame security guards
who failed to stop his crime. Ultimately, law enforcement’s inability to prevent the Capitol siege
has no bearing on the allegations, pled in the indictment, that the defendant fueled his supporters
with knowingly false election-fraud claims, directed an angry crowd to the Capitol, did not try to
stop or quell the crowd when it violently breached the Capitol building and halted the
Congressional certification proceeding, and sought to leverage the resulting delay in proceedings.
Reality and proof? He’s got his work cut out. MAGA is against all that.
We know there were fake electors in 7 states. Six of those states were swing states. We know there was a coordinated insurrection on Jan 6th. Millions of dollars were spent to organize stop the steal rallies across the United States. Millions of dollars were spent on bussing in and providing general logistics for all those people to be at the capital. The conservatives tried to steal the election on multiple fronts. All why they were projecting it on democrats.
>For example, Windom describes subpoenaing materials and witnesses from the Secret Service and the CISA. That evidence includes phones from Secret Service officials that prosecutors sought to mine for evidence only to find that none was “recoverable.”
Not having any recoverable data seems suspicious but maybe only because we now the USSS deleted text messages about Jan 6?
Why does the Prosecutor or Government even need to debunk ‘claims’?
Seems like a good way to clog up the legal system.
Trump either wins in 2024 or he is screeewwwed!!!
> Windom also contended that Trump’s repeated effort to describe partisan bias in intelligence about the election belied that those making the assessments **were his own appointees,** buttressed by conclusions at a slew of intel agencies.public….
Prosecutors also used the filing to push back on Trump’s contention that the charges against him contradict the case the Justice Department has made against Jan. 6 rioters. There’s nothing contradictory, they say, about prosecutors claiming a Jan. 6 rioter was responsible for his or her own criminal actions while noting that they took their cues from Trump.The defendant’s effort to blame law enforcement for the riot of which they were victims,” Windom writes, “fares no better than the attempt of a bank robber to blame security guards who failed to stop his crimes.”
Bold emphasis mine. For those in his orbit that think he wouldn’t throw *them* under the bus… Wake up. The road is now made out of bodies of his allies and friends.
It’s nice that legal action, but it is too little too late, and the US will pay a heavy price for that.
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Special Counsel is looking at *everyone* involved it seems.
>In addition to the officials described in the new filing, Smith has interviewed nearly every senior official in Trump’s West Wing, from Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone to Vice President Mike Pence. He has also obtained records from the National Archives, state governments and dozens of GOP leaders and activists who were involved in Trump’s effort to send slates of fraudulent presidential electors to Congress.
> In support of his Motion to Compel, the defendant suggests that the Government relied
only on a selection of politically biased officials (ECF No. 167 at 1-2), but he does not and cannot
substantiate this theatrical claim. To the contrary, **as the defendant is aware from the discovery
that has been provided, the Government asked every pertinent witness**—including the former DNI,
former Acting Secretary of DHS, former Acting Deputy Secretary of DHS, former CISA Director,
former Acting CISA Director, former CISA Senior Cyber Counsel, former National Security
Advisor (“NSA”), former Deputy NSA, former Chief of Staff to the National Security Council,
former Chairman of the Election Assistance Commission (“EAC”), Presidential Intelligence
Briefer, former Secretary of Defense, and former senior DOJ leadership—**if they were aware of
any evidence that a domestic or foreign actor flipped a single vote in a voting machine during the
presidential election. The answer from every single official was no.**
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148.181.0.pdf
Jack Smith not messing around here:
> the defendant’s effort to blame law enforcement for the riot of
which they were victims fares no better than the attempt of a bank robber to blame security guards
who failed to stop his crime. Ultimately, law enforcement’s inability to prevent the Capitol siege
has no bearing on the allegations, pled in the indictment, that the defendant fueled his supporters
with knowingly false election-fraud claims, directed an angry crowd to the Capitol, did not try to
stop or quell the crowd when it violently breached the Capitol building and halted the
Congressional certification proceeding, and sought to leverage the resulting delay in proceedings.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148.181.0.pdf
Reality and proof? He’s got his work cut out. MAGA is against all that.
We know there were fake electors in 7 states. Six of those states were swing states. We know there was a coordinated insurrection on Jan 6th. Millions of dollars were spent to organize stop the steal rallies across the United States. Millions of dollars were spent on bussing in and providing general logistics for all those people to be at the capital. The conservatives tried to steal the election on multiple fronts. All why they were projecting it on democrats.
>For example, Windom describes subpoenaing materials and witnesses from the Secret Service and the CISA. That evidence includes phones from Secret Service officials that prosecutors sought to mine for evidence only to find that none was “recoverable.”
Not having any recoverable data seems suspicious but maybe only because we now the USSS deleted text messages about Jan 6?
Why does the Prosecutor or Government even need to debunk ‘claims’?
Seems like a good way to clog up the legal system.
Trump either wins in 2024 or he is screeewwwed!!!
> Windom also contended that Trump’s repeated effort to describe partisan bias in intelligence about the election belied that those making the assessments **were his own appointees,** buttressed by conclusions at a slew of intel agencies.public….
Prosecutors also used the filing to push back on Trump’s contention that the charges against him contradict the case the Justice Department has made against Jan. 6 rioters. There’s nothing contradictory, they say, about prosecutors claiming a Jan. 6 rioter was responsible for his or her own criminal actions while noting that they took their cues from Trump.The defendant’s effort to blame law enforcement for the riot of which they were victims,” Windom writes, “fares no better than the attempt of a bank robber to blame security guards who failed to stop his crimes.”
Bold emphasis mine. For those in his orbit that think he wouldn’t throw *them* under the bus… Wake up. The road is now made out of bodies of his allies and friends.
It’s nice that legal action, but it is too little too late, and the US will pay a heavy price for that.