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Donald Trump's January 6 Indictment

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emptywheel
Is here. He is charged with 18 USC 371, 18 USC 1512(c)(2), 18 USC 1512(k), and 18 USC 241. There are six co-conspirators, all uncharged: Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, and others.
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The $40 Million, Er, the Unlimited Slush Fund Man

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emptywheel
Trump's campaign finance looks a lot like his corporate finance. And his criminal exposure is now part of what he's selling.
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Discoveries in the Stolen Document Discovery

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emptywheel
DOJ obtained surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago during the same period it was asking about Trump's foreign business ties and accusing Carlos De Oliveira of hiding his memory of why Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago twice last July.
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How Trump Clouded Journalists' Heads about Surveillance Video

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emptywheel
It is not the case that if DOJ obtained all the surveillance footage from Mar-a-Lago, Trump Org must have given it to them. In fact, one of the most damning documents Mueller obtained during the Russian investigation came from Microsoft, the cloud provider hosting services for Trump Org.
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Stan Woodward Wants to Give Walt Nauta a Need to Know the Contents of the Stolen Documents

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emptywheel
Just after Stan Woodward demanded that his client, Walt Nauta, be given a Need to Know what's in 32 highly classified documents, Woodward predictable conflict problems have become an issue.
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"Rights" and Wrongs: Where the Stolen Documents Investigation Is Headed

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emptywheel
The latest stolen documents indictment doesn't answer the question of why Trump stole these documents or what he did with them. All the superseding indictment did is make the question more urgent. 
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Carlos De Oliveira Added a Lock to the Storage Facility Then (Claimed He) Gave Away the Key

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emptywheel
For the entire month of August last year, Donald Trump pointed to the new lock he put on the storage facility at Mar-a-Lago as proof he was cooperating with DOJ. When the FBI came to search it, Carlos De Oliveira told the FBI he had given away the key.
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David Weiss Is Wrecking the Right Wing Story (and Likely Sandbagging Hunter Biden)

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emptywheel
The Statement of Offense written as part of Hunter Biden's plea deal looks like it was was written not for the tax charges to which he was pleading guilty, but to the FARA charges Biden thought would be off the table with this deal. And it sure looks like this "plea deal" was an attempt to sheepdip the entire prosecution to get Hunter Biden to clean the taint himself. 
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Carlos De Oliveira's Uncharged Suspected Obstruction Happened on Aileen Cannon's Watch

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emptywheel
The last overt act in the superseding stolen documents indictment was August 26, 2022. On August 27, 2022, Aileen Cannon improperly exercised equitable jurisdiction and, days later, stalled the investigation for three months.
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Chekhov's Alan Garten: The Human Gaps in the Surveillance Footage Gap

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emptywheel
The superseding stolen documents indictment shows how Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira tried to destroy surveillance footage. But it does not yet explain how and who succeeded in putting more limited gaps in surveillance footage.
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Michigan MAGAt News: Michigan Ballot Tabulator Suspect Claims She Has Been Indicted

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emptywheel
One of the suspects in an investigation involving tampering with ballot tabulators claims she has been indicted, and failed GOP candidate Ryan Kelley is expected to plead guilty today.
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Rudy Giuliani Appears to be Claiming Privilege Over Hundreds of Items He Already Agreed Were Not

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emptywheel
Based on what Rudy and his defense attorney have said in sworn declarations, Rudy appears to be claiming that hundreds of January 6-related documents are privileged that they already conceded were not.
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Rudy's Corrupted Devices

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emptywheel
Robert Costello just revealed that at least seven of the devices DOJ seized from Rudy Giuliani in 2021 were "corrupted."
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Cover-Up: Joseph Ziegler Provided a Different Explanation Why Hunter Biden Wasn't Charged

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emptywheel
In its supine effort to magnify Republican scandal, the press is covering up the details from Joseph Ziegler's testimony that revealed there were legal problems with the case, including Trump's own attempts to influence it.
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Something Happened To Our Planet

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bmaz
Something happened to our planet, and it was us. The upshot is that it is getting insane. People yammer about how hot it is currently in Phoenix. It has always been thus, but it no longer cools off at night. The high temperatures are not the…
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Curious Plea Deals Afoot in Lancaster, PA

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emptywheel
Two of the most inexplicable January 6 crime scene plea deals, Sam Lazar and James Breheny, both have some tie to Lancaster PA.
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Ruby Freeman's Revenge: Rudy's Blobs and Bernie's Glitches

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emptywheel
Somewhere in the middle of Bernie Kerik's attempt to blow off Ruby Freeman's discovery, Jack Smith subpoenaed him, making that effort much harder to pull off.
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"Super:" The Day after IRS Got a Warrant for the Hunter Biden Laptop, DOJ Sent Bill Barr a Laptop

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emptywheel
The day after the IRS first obtained a warrant for a laptop once owned by Hunter Biden, DOJ sent Bill Barr -- who was micromanaging the Durham investigation at the time -- a laptop.
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