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The Guts of the Alleged Conspiracy: Scott Hall

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emptywheel
While we're all awaiting the next mugshot of a high profile charged co-conspirator, the key to understanding how all the strands of Trump's attempt to steal the election fit together may lie with lower profile Georgia bail bondsman, Scott Hall, who was released yesterday on bail himself. The David Bossie brother-in-law had ties not just to Jeffrey Clark and the Coffee County caper, but also apparently to the effort to pressure Ruby Freeman.
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The Secrets within Donald Trump's Stolen Secrets Docket

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emptywheel
DOJ unsealed a good deal of grand jury information to include in its reply to Judge Cannon.
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DOJ Invites Aileen Cannon to Avoid Another Reversible Error

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emptywheel
Judge Cannon has already been reversed by the 11th Circuit in humiliating fashion in the stolen documents case once. DOJ is trying to help her avoid a second reversal. 
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Trump Complains that He Filed So Many Voluminous Frivolous Lawsuits

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emptywheel
Over half of the discovery Trump has received either came from him originally or consists of overproduction of email from the Secret Service.
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I, Too, Got Hoodwinked by Donald Trump's Demands to Be Tried Like a Seditionist

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emptywheel
Donald Trump is arguing that his trial take as long as it might if Jack Smith chose to try him for the whole kit and kaboodle, in which he might be guilty, but of which he is not yet charged.
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Mark Meadows' Middling Path: There Are Several Paths to Prosecute Donald Trump

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emptywheel
Thus far, Mark Meadows seems to have negotiated the various legal risks by only having to give as much testimony as required, delaying the time a grand jury locked him into a particular story. But unless he succeeds in getting the Georgia charges removed to federal court and dismissed, that approach may get far harder soon.
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What Is The Sound of a Dead Bird Xitting?

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Rayne
This post contains observed and speculative material following the reported loss of content circa 2011-2014 at the former bird app. What the hell is going on at Xitter?
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"Ebb and Flow:" How David Weiss Volunteered for a Subpoena, or Worse

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emptywheel
I have no idea whether Hunter Biden's lawyers intended to bait David Weiss or someone close to him to anonymously rebut documentary evidence that he was influenced politics, inviting more scrutiny from ongoing leak investigations. But that appears to be what happened.
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On Visibility and [dis]Covering Kenneth Chesebro

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emptywheel
The two indictments implicating Kenneth Chesebro have brought new visibility to him, and his actions. The discovery of Chesebro monitoring Jones' activities during the attack have made aspects of the coordination behind this attack visible to TV lawyers for the first time. But amid all that newfound visibility, it's worth remembering that some people who carried out the attack knew to -- and did -- monitor all this in real time.
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Beryl Howell Scoffs That We Think We Know Anything about the Trump Investigations

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emptywheel
Back in February, Beryl Howell scoffed that the public could really understand what was going on in the investigation from reporting on which witnesses appeared before the grand jury. And until we learn what the 39 unidentified warrants provided to Trump in discovery are -- in addition to the Xitter warrant about which there was a big fight -- she's right. We don't know.
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"They Spoke Often:" It Took the Fash-Friendly FBI Over Two Months to Document the Lies Their Informant, Joe Biggs, Told them

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emptywheel
As a 302 included in Joe Biggs' sentencing package makes clear, the reason the FBI didn't warn against January 6 is because the terrorists who planned it were the FBI's people.
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The Challenge of Treating the Proud Boy Leaders as Terrorists

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emptywheel
The omnibus sentencing memo for the Proud Boys is a testament to the asymmetry with which the US treats white person terrorism as compared to Islamic terrorism.
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Trump's "Hunter Biden" "Laptop" Consiglieres Want to Be Paid

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emptywheel
The question of why Trump is paying for other defendants' legal fees but not (yet) Rudy's may have as much to do with the "Hunter Biden" "laptop" as it does January 6.
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As Xitter's Lawyer Stalled DOJ, Elon Musk Met with Jim Jordan (Twice!) and Kevin McCarthy

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emptywheel
As Xitter's lawyer was stonewalling DOJ over complying with a warrant for Trump's account, Elon Musk was in DC, meeting with Jim Jordan and Kevin McCarthy.
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Trump Changed the Lock in His Residence before Changing the Lock on the Storage Room

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emptywheel
Before he changed the lock on the storage room door, Carlos De Oliveira replaced the lock on a closet within Trump's residence on June 2, 2022.
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Death by Tweet: "User Attribution Is Important"

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emptywheel
User attribution is important. Especially with a guy who has the ability to murder by tweet. And that's why DOJ would need to know every account or person or device that had an association with Donald Trump's Twitter account.
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"Poor Mr. Zebley:" Both Xitter's Lawyers and Journalists Responding to Boilerplate Need to re-Read Mueller

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emptywheel
While the presence of DMs in Trump's historical Twitter account were the basis for Twitter's frivolous Executive Privilege claim used to stall complying with a warrant in January and February, that may not be the most important data DOJ ultimately received.
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Charles McGonigal's Lonely Plea Deal

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emptywheel
Charles McGonigal's plea made almost no mention of the guy he was charged with Sergey Shestakov.
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Trump's Federated Conspiracies and Racketeering: How Georgia and the Federal Charges May Interact

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emptywheel
The way in which Trump's two election theft indictments interact will pose a real prisoner's dilemma, especially for people like Sidney Powell and Mark Meadows.
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