Update: Driftglass, while I'm grateful for the link to Crooks&Liars' Mike's Blog Round-Up this Monday, I seriously want people to go straight to Emptywheel's articles so she can get the stat numbers. All this page does is provide links to her. I encourage you to go straight to https://emptywheel.net/ right now.
It's still hard to just sit here and wait for the legal consequences to show up - if ever - for donald trump's various criminal misdeeds, but while we're waiting Emptywheel went and created three updated reports on "where we stand" regarding three of the major criminal investigations facing trump.
I encourage the nine official readers of this blog to hop over - if you haven't already - to her website and check out each entry. I will only provide quick quotes of each to entice you over there.
Where the investigation stands in Georgia:
...Willis discovered that, while Bobb claimed to have been uninvolved in the crimes in Georgia, she testified that she and, “at least two dozen others,” over at least two rooms, sat in on Trump’s call to Brad Raffensperger, and “we all thought … it was totally fine.” On top of discovering that there were up to 24 witnesses who might be willing to misrepresent the call at trial, this may have caught Rudy Giuliani in a lie...
Where the investigation stands with stolen documents:
...Not only are Trump’s attorneys wildly ill-suited to an Espionage case, but as they admit in the letter, they haven’t reviewed the classified documents Trump retained. If, as some of the questions reportedly asked of witnesses seems to have suggested, Trump tried to curate classified documents for his own personal revenge, then it may make 793 charges more compelling...
Where the investigation stands with January 6th insurrection:
...On Thursday, Mike Pence testified to the January 6 grand jury for over five hours. Many commentators have suggested — and I agree — that was one of the last major testimonial steps Jack Smith would need to take before deciding whether and if so how to charge Trump for inciting a mob to threaten to assassinate his Vice President...
Please go read each article in full and leave affirmative comments to each one, thank ye.
As for any possible indictments, it's clear the Georgia case won't start issuing them until July 11th. I am hopeful that with my birth month being May, that I will get to enjoy some federal indictments over the stolen documents AND trump's incitement to riot along with my birthday cake. Yum.
2 comments:
Crimity crimity crime. Sooner or later the consequences come around. I'm not in that much of a hurry. I want them to get every little detail right so that when Fergus finally gets a real lawyer for the appeal, the cases stand.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Paul, I love Emptywheel and you are to be commended for amplifying her terrific work. Bear in mind, though, that the intended purpose of MBRU is to direct some traffic to worthy smaller blogs. Here's hoping you gather a larger audience than your "nine official readers"...
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