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The tRump team had their justice in place.  And Ginni & Clarence never talk politics at home.. yeah right. :cop:

 

https://www.axios.com/2022/11/02/trump-2020-election-john-eastman-clarence-thomas

 

 

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Emails that emerged Wednesday underscore the extent to which former President Trump's top legal advisers zeroed in on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as "being key" in their bid to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Driving the news: "We want to frame things so that Thomas could be the one to issue some sort of stay or other circuit justice opinion saying Georgia is in legitimate doubt," Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro wrote in an email on Dec. 31, 2020, to John Eastman and other members of Trump's legal team.

  • Thomas could "end up being the key," Chesebro also said in the newly disclosed emails, which were released by Eastman's attorneys last week to the Jan. 6 committee and obtained by Politico.
  • He added that Thomas would be "our only chance to get a favorable judicial opinion by Jan. 6, which might hold up the Georgia count in Congress."
  • "I think I agree with this," Eastman wrote later that morning.

Between the lines: Chesebro in another email on Dec. 31 laid out his strategy to disrupt the election certification process.

  • "f we can just get this case pending before the Supreme Court by Jan. 5, ideally with something positive written by a judge or justice, hopefully Thomas, I think it’s our best shot at holding up the count of a state in Congress," he wrote.

The big picture: Eastman, a central figure in Trump's attempts to subvert election results, is the conservative legal scholar who championed the theory, along with Trump, that the vice president could unilaterally reject electors.

The messages were part of eight emails that Eastman sought to shield from the Jan. 6 select committee, but a judge ordered that the emails be released, Politico reports. Thomas' wife, Ginni Thomas, has also emerged as a central player in the Jan. 6 select committee's investigation, as she was in touch with Trump advisers about schemes to overturn the 2020 election. In September, Ginni Thomas sat for a closed-door interview with the Jan. 6 committee.

 

 
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On 10/28/2022 at 2:46 PM, Scarlet said:

 

He may well get indicted for having the materials when he isn’t supposed to, but if this report says and is to be believed, the Investigators believe nothing nefarious about it though.   Just Trump being hard headed about having them.  
 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/14/trump-motive-mar-a-lago-documents/

 


That review has not found any apparent business advantage to the types of classified information in Trump’s possession, these people said. FBI interviews with witnesses so far, they said, also do not point to any nefarious effort by Trump to leverage, sell or use the government secrets. Instead, the former president seemed motivated by a more basic desire not to give up what he believed was his property, these people said.

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Not related to the subject of this thread but related to Trump and his scandals.  

 

 

 

https://www.rawstory.com/jesse-benton-2658685268/?cx_testId=4&cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&cx_artPos=8&cx_experienceId=EXC93HV4HK4I#cxrecs_s

 

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Federal prosecutors have obtained a conviction of a longtime GOP strategist who illegally helped a Russian businessman funnel money to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

 

"Jesse Benton, 44, was pardoned by Trump in 2020 for a different campaign finance crime, months before he was indicted again on six counts related to facilitating an illegal foreign campaign donation. He was found guilty Thursday on all six counts," The Washington Post reported. "The evidence at trial showed Benton bought a $25,000 ticket to a September 2016 Republican National Committee (RNC) event on behalf of Roman Vasilenko, a Russian naval officer turned multilevel marketer."

Vasilenko received a photo with Trump at the time, while he was running for parliament in Russia.

"Benton began his career on the GOP’s libertarian fringe as an aide to former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), whose granddaughter is Benton’s wife. He gained mainstream credibility helping Paul’s son, Rand Paul (R-KY), win a Senate seat in 2010 and was hired by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s 2014 reelection campaign," The Post reported. "But Benton resigned before that election amid an investigation into whether an Iowa state senator was bribed to support Ron Paul in the 2012 presidential race."

Sen. Paul helped achieve a pardon for Benton two days before Christmas in 2020, when Trump was a lame duck after losing to Joe Biden, The Post reported at the time.

At the same time, Trump pardoned GOP operatives Paul Manafort and Roger Stone along with Charles Kushner, the father of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.

 

 

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SC Smith is hot on the trail.  The article has a note on each state - I copied the note on Georgia which I think will be a big, big deal. 

 

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3775854-trump-special-counsel-has-subpoenaed-officials-in-these-7-battleground-states/

 

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Trump special counsel has subpoenaed officials in these 7 battleground states

Special counsel Jack Smith has issued a round of subpoenas targeting election officials in seven battleground states that were key to former President Trump and his allies after the 2020 election.

Smith, who was appointed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) last month to investigate allegations that Trump sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election, sent his latest batch of subpoenas to state and local elections officials in Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico and Pennsylvania.

The news came just days after it was previously reported that Smith subpoenaed elections officials in Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Here’s what we know about the states in the subpoenas.

Georgia

Smith issued Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) a subpoena on Friday.

In early 2021, Trump called Raffensperger and asked him to “find” 11,780 votes in Georgia, a request that he ultimately rejected.

The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit against Raffensperger and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) challenging the 2020 election, which failed in court.

Also subpoenaed by Smith in Georgia were election officials in Cobb County, located in the Atlanta metropolitan area.

 

 

 

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