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Third rule of Fight Club: someone yells "stop," goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. J6 isn't [1]
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Date: 2023-07-12
about special counsel Jack Smith's investigative focus on an event nearly three years in the rearview mirror: a volatile Dec. 18, 2020 meeting at the White House. What started in the Oval Office erupted into an
The size and scope of who was there matters because although Trump lost multiple, successive battles to block grand jury testimony on grounds of executive privilege, his attorney-client privilege has been overcome in court only in two known instances: the House's battle for John Eastman's documents and the special counsel's fight for testimony from Trump's personal lawyer Evan Corcoran. (In a distinct but related development, we learned last week that Trump waived attorney-client privilege in Rudy Giuliani's recent disciplinary proceedings by the District of Columbia Bar.)
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Third, beyond supplying proof of intent, the Dec. 18, 2020, meeting could lead to proof of a pivot point in the overall plan, as well as how and why that happened. In particular, less than two hours after the meeting ended, at 1:42 a.m. ET, Trump tweeted the infamous “be there! Will be wild!” tweet that began his promotion of the Jan. 6 rally, his begging state election officials and state legislative leaders to intervene, and even the pressure campaign on then-Vice President Mike Pence to change history on his own. How Trump went from watching a manic free-for-all about the legality of seizing voting machines to crafting that tweet at nearly 2 in the morning is one of the greatest mysteries of the post-2020 election period.
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