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DOJ Grand Jury focusing on Trump [1]

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Date: 2022-07-28

From the Washington Post yesterday:

The prosecutors have asked hours of detailed questions about meetings Trump led in December 2020 and January 2021; his pressure campaign on Pence to overturn the election; and what instructions Trump gave his lawyers and advisers about fake electors and sending electors back to the states, the people said. Some of the questions focused directly on the extent of Trump’s involvement in the fake-elector effort led by his outside lawyers, including John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani, these people said.

'In Prep For Prosecution': DOJ's Grand Jury Questioning 'Dominated' By Trump WaPo Says

Washington Post reporter Carol Leonig interview on MSNBC:

0:57

This is the first time that we have known for certain that they are eyeing former president of the United States... We are also saying something significant about the precedent that is being set by the department of justice here today. ...

2:51

What the team learned was that so much of particularly Marc Short's conversation with the grand jury was dominated by what did Trump say, and what did Trump do? What did Trump tell his lawyers? Then what was Trump's reaction to that? That description over and over again of the grand jury prosecutor who's not asking for a fishing expedition. A grand jury is one of prosecutor is asking questions they know they need the answer to in preparation for trial, in preparation for prosecution. So the significance of this goes way, way up when a prosecutor says, so tell me with the former prosecutor set a president said about this. That dominant feature of the grand jury also took us aback about that questioning.

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