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It's not the meat, it's the motion to indict... Obstruction and the grift for J6 [1]
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Date: 2022-09-13
If they’re not going to go after the 2016 inaugural haul they should go after the major grift from the Big Lie. The obstruction is patently obvious in so many other places, including Boxminster-a-Lago. DoJ, do your stuff, follow the money.
x The 1/6 committee has documented extraordinary grift by Trump's Save America PAC. It raised $250 million to "stop the steal" and then channeled millions to groups linked to his advisers.
Prosecutors might have the same documentation, @BarbMcQuade says:
https://t.co/wdHzRRVAso pic.twitter.com/JqLVaEMzIN — Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 13, 2022
The upstanding folks around Donald Trump have been hit with a wave of new subpoenas in connection with the Justice Department investigation into efforts to overturn the election, the New York Times reports. Some appear aimed at probing his Save America PAC, which raised an enormous pile of cash ostensibly to fight the “stolen” election, then channeled the loot elsewhere.
That’s surely one of the most reprehensible scams the former president has perpetrated. And so, if it’s producing new legal vulnerabilities for Trump and his allies, well, it couldn’t be happening to a nicer bunch of grifters.
There are approximately 40 new subpoenas, according to the Times, and some are aimed at probing efforts to get fake presidential electors appointed to further Trump’s plot to thwart certification of President Biden’s victory. That’s commanding much attention, as the Justice Department’s investigation of that particular scheme appears to be seriously advancing.
www.washingtonpost.com/...
x With only three months left in the year, the House Jan. 6 committee is eyeing a close to its work and a final report laying out its findings about the U.S. Capitol insurrection.
But the investigation is not over.
https://t.co/9bJYZm3uGF — The Associated Press (@AP) September 13, 2022
The subpoenas were issued to a wide range of people who either worked in the White House or on the Trump campaign, including senior officials like the campaign’s chief financial officer; personal aides to Mr. Trump; and the former chief of staff to Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter who also served as one of his senior advisers. The Save America PAC was formed soon after Election Day in 2020, as Mr. Trump aggressively raised money on his baseless claims of an election “stolen” through widespread voting fraud. Among the recipients of subpoenas from a grand jury sitting in Washington are relatively junior aides from the White House and Mr. Trump’s 2020 campaign. While the subpoenas asked for information concerning the Save America PAC, they also sought communications with several pro-Trump lawyers — like Kenneth Chesebro — who helped devise the electors plan.
Numerous subpoenas focused solely on the fake elector plan were sent to Republican state lawmakers and state Republican officials allied with Mr. Trump starting this spring. Those subpoenas were signed Thomas P. Windom, a veteran federal prosecutor, who has been leading the inquiry into the scheme.
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