Hoping to create an alternative headline, Grassley introduced previously undisclosed internal #FBI emails about the initiation of the origins of the #Trump investigation.
Quoting FBI internal emails, he reveals that the bureau’s initial investigation into Trump’s use of #FakeElectors to overturn the 2020 election—an inquiry eventually taken over by the special counsel Jack Smith— was code-named “Arctic Frost.”
Full report:
https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025.pdf
FINAL REPORT ON THE SPECIAL COUNSEL'S INVESTIGATIONS AND PROSECUTIONS
VOLUME ONE: THE ELECTION CASE
REPORT ON EFFORTS TO INTERFERE WITH THE LAWFUL TRANSFER OF POWER FOLLOWING THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OR THE CERTIFICATION OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTE HELD ON JANUARY 6, 2021
Nail them all to the wall.
It Was A Good Week Not To Be A Fake Elector In Wisconsin
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/12/it-was-good-week-not-be-fake-elector
Prosecutors in #Wisconsin have filed 10 additional felony charges against campaign advisor #KennethChesebro, campaign lawyer #MikeRoman, and Trump attorney JimTroupis. State charges, go!
#FakeElectors #insurrection #trump
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-trump-fake-electors-5624cb3e441f6866da4f2dd452a902bc
#Republicans bring back #fakeelectors in #battlegroundstates.
More than a dozen fake electors from 2020 are back this time. And several #electiondeniers are among the new #prospective #Trump #electors.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/04/trump-fake-electors-return-election-denial-00186977
Angela Benander, a spox for the #Michigan SoS’s office, said, “It speaks to the efforts that we are not going to tolerate any attempts to circumvent the #law.”
Election ofcls across the country are worried about effectively an insider threat—that elected ofcls steeped in #Trump #disinformation could disrupt the process.
Already in MI, the state has taken over supervision of elections in Shelby Twp, where a #Republican clerk was charged w/a #felony for his role in the 2020 #FakeElectors scheme.
As part of the #election-related investigation, #Trump was indicted by a #federal #GrandJury in August 2023 on four #criminal counts, including #conspiracy to #defraud the #UnitedStates; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; #obstruction of & attempting to obstruct an official proceeding; & conspiracy against #rights.
Re #Trump’s claims that #JackieSmith’s filing is in violation of the #DOJ’s 60 day before an election policy is BS. The DOJ's "60-day rule" applies to bringing NEW indictments in the days leading up to an #election, it is not relevant to the #ElectionInterference / #ElectionSubversion / #Jan6 / #FakeElectors #criminal #conspiracy case.
This is NOT a new #indictment. It is a #filing in regard to a VERY OLD indictment. Trump was first indicted in this case in Aug 2023.
Using this info, here is #JackSmith’s evidence of #Trump’s #Michigan #ElectionInterference specifically detailing the #FakeElectors #conspiracy (see screenshots).
The players:
P37: Mike Shirkey
P38: Lee Chatfield
P39: Ronna McDaniel
CC1: Rudy Giuliani
P21: Mark Meadows
CC2: John Eastman
P41: Scott Gragson (?)
P42: Molly Michael (?)
P5: Mike Roman
Identifying almost all 77+ redacted players listed in Smith's motion is a trivial exercise, w/ the help of AI. (linked article gives credit to the people who assembled formats.)
Pics: #JackSmith #Indictment Cast of #Redacted Characters (Informed Guesses)
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/10/2/2274391/-First-draft-identifying-all-the-redacted-players-based-on-public-records-and-Gemini-Pro
#Trump directly caused #FakeElectors to meet in various states. He publicly berated #MikePence for not going along w/his plot to overturn the results of the #election, & whipped up the #Jan6 crowd against #Pence when they stormed the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, in an attempt to stop #Congress’ confirmation of #Biden’s Electoral College victory. Over 140 #law enforcement officers were injured in the Trump-inspired melee.
#Trump & his allies tried to twist the arms of legislators to appoint #FakeElectors that could be *counted* by #Congress. (#JackSmith includes bonkers new details about this scheme, including the fact that one potential participant referred to its ringleaders as being like characters in the infamous Star Wars cantina, otherwise known as the most “wretched hive of scum & villainy” in the galaxy.)
Taking the knowledge that Bannon is P1, look at pp 64-72:
Check out the criminality
No longer WaPo article, just my reading of the filing:
#SteveBannon is deductively “person 1” or “P1”
Deduced because the audio of this quote from p7 was published by MotherJones.
"And so they're going to have a natural disadvantage and Trump's going to take advantage of it-that's our strategy. He's going to declare himself a winner."
#Trump #criminal #law #ElectionInterference #ElectionSubversion #Jan6 #FakeElectors #conspiracy #TrumpCoup #Chutkan #JackSmith
The filing is a key part of the #SpecialCounsel’s attempt to show that #Trump can still face #trial for attempting to overturn Joe #Biden’s electoral victory after the #SCOTUS ruled he was #immune from prosecution for ofcl acts. It asserted that Trump’s efforts to enlist #MikePence to intervene in #Congress’s #certification of the results under a plan by private *attorney* #Giuliani were integral to his campaign for reelection.
#criminal #law #ElectionInterference #Jan6 #FakeElectors
The filing described what the then-president told key figures in his orbit, including VP #MikePence, attorney #RudyGiuliani & senior #WhiteHouse & Republican Party ofcls, though it shielded some of their names, & how some in his orbit told him his claims of having won the election were false. It also detailed what #Trump was doing on #Jan6, as his supporters violently stormed the Capitol.
From WaPo:
#SpecialCounsel #JackSmith laid out new evidence to support his assertion that #Trump’s efforts to subvert the results of the #2020election were taken as a private candidate, rather than his ofcl capacity as the president, in a much-anticipated 165-pg filing unsealed Wed that detailed #Trump’s private interactions w/his VP & others.
#criminal #law #ElectionInterference #ElectionSubversion #Jan6 #FakeElectors #conspiracy #TrumpCoup #Chutkan #MikePence
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/10/02/jack-smith-filing-trump-immunity-jan-6/
Just checked in w/ #FauxNews they have as their chyron “Trump Campaign: Jack Smith filing full of falsehoods”
FFS, they have HARD EVIDENCE, documented, phone records, depositions made under oath!
Cavuto said that there wasn’t much new information!!!
