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Special counsel wants to know if Trump tried to pull 'national security levers' on Jan. 6 [1]
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Date: 2023-03-27
Costa dropped this piece of journalistic dynamite on Sunday’s edition of “Face the Nation.” Watch here.
Costa told host Margaret Brennan that Smith has forced a number of Trump’s top aides to testify about private discussions they had with Trump. That’s seismic in and of itself, since as Costa noted, “there’s no privilege, no executive privilege they can cite” to slither out from under having to testify under oath about what happened during those discussions.
But it’s the nature of those discussions that should really have Trump and Trumpworld running scared.
"We know the special counsel is looking into a possible conspiracy case against Trump and people around him about trying to block the congressional proceedings on January 6," Costa continued. "We're going to potentially hear now from Mark Meadows. Robert O'Brien, the former national security adviser, John Ratcliffe, the former director of national intelligence." Costa went on to say that witnesses brought to the grand jury are being asked about the kind of "national security levers Trump was asking about in those final days."
Specifically, Raw Story notes, a number of militia members who were part of the horde that swarmed into the Capitol said they hoped it would give Trump a pretext to deploy the military and/or National Guard, impound voting machines and presumably allow him to stay in office past Jan. 20.
If Smith is going in this direction, the only question is when or if someone starts singing. After all, if Smith is trying to wangle testimony from people as high up in the food chain as Meadows, O’Brien, and Ratcliffe, then their only way out is to give up Trump.
Later, Costa took to Twitter to reveal just how Smith and his grand jury are delving into Trump’s inner circle.
x Witnesses have been pressed in recent weeks about Giuliani, S. Powell and others who sought to use levers of government to stop the certification of the election… and sources directly involved believe a case on conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding could be in works… — Robert Costa (@costareports) March 26, 2023
If Smith is asking these kinds of questions, then once again we have to start wondering when and if people will start flipping. This is looking like a classic mob roll-up—get the capos to give up the boss.
Remember, ladies and gentlemen, a good federal criminal investigation is supposed to look like a slow-motion strangulation. That is, build up enough evidence against a defendant until he has literally no room to maneuver. And this is being seen by a man who has spent the better part of a quarter-century overseeing such slow-motion strangulations. They better hide the ketchup.
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