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Jan. 6 grand jury witnesses are being asked what 'national security levers' Trump was trying to pull
March 26, 2023
CBS News revealed a smidgen of news nested in a shocking episode of "Face the Nation," in which Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) blamed Democrats for Donald Trump celebrating Jan. 6 attackers at his Waco, Texas rally over the weekend.
After, however, reporter Robert Costa noted that special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into Donald Trump's role in the Jan. 6 attacks had taken a turn.
"Based on our reporting, the special counsel is tightening his investigation around former President Trump when it comes to January 6, now compelling some of his top aides and allies to testify under oath about their private conversations with Trump," he explained. "That means there's no privilege, no executive privilege they can cite to try to block any kind of testimony on those issues."
This has been a losing battle for a number of officials that attempted to assert executive privilege during the House Select Committee's investigation into the insurrection and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. Ultimately, Congress voted to hold a few of those subpoenaed in contempt of Congress and those proceedings are moving forward despite the House changing hands to the GOP.
"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."
Some of the militia members had said over chats that it was important that they riot so that it would give Trump what he needed to declare the Insurrection Act of 1807 or declare martial law. That would then allow him to deploy the military, seize voting machines, and ultimately allow him to stay in office. Trump had toyed with the idea during the summer of 2020 during the protests of the slaying of George Floyd.
Costa also brought up the document theft case, which is also being investigated by the special counsel. He noted that it's extremely rare for a judge to call in a defendant's lawyer to testify. As legal analysts explained this week, it only happens if there is enough evidence that a crime was committed. It means that a judge believes that's exactly what happened.
"Evan Corcoran, Trump's lawyer in this case, [is] now being told to come in, and he did come in for hours on Friday," Costa said. "And he didn't just talk about his broad view. He had to share audio files, notes, details about all of his conversations with Trump about how Trump handled those federal requests about classified documents. Think back to the Mar-a-Lago FBI search last summer. Corcoran was pressed about what was Trump doing at that intense time. And that really gives the prosecutors a prism into what really happened."
Costa later added more details on Twitter about the information he's gathered.
"Sources directly familiar with witnesses and questions tell me it's clear Special Counsel is now 'tightening' the Jan. 6 probe around Trump and his inner circle, with focus on infamous 12-18-20 Oval [Office meeting], and efforts to push national security, DOJ official," he tweeted. "Witnesses have been pressed in recent weeks about [Rudy] Giuliani, [Sidney] 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."
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'What the hell is Andrew Cuomo doing?': Disgraced ex-governor trashed for Alvin Bragg attack
March 26, 2023
During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Alex Witt show," Rep Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) lashed out at disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) for attacking Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for investigating Donald Trump's payment of hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
Speaking on WABC radio on Friday night, Cuomo not only attacked Bragg, but also New York Attorney General Tish James and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for also pursuing criminal charges against the former president.
According to Cuomo, "I think it’s all politics and that’s what I think the people of this country are saying. It just feeds that anger and that cynicism and the partisanship."
"It’s a coincidence that Bragg goes after Trump and Tish James goes after Trump and Georgia goes after Trump? That’s all a coincidence?" he asked rhetorically. "I think it feeds the cynicism and that’s the cancer in our body politic right now."
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That led Bowman to go off.
"What the hell is governor Andrew Cuomo doing right now?" he exclaimed.
"Governor Andrew Cuomo is carrying water for the MAGA Republicans right now," he continued. "Undermining the investigation of D.A. Bragg, going after President Biden on how the president has handled the border even though there's been no change in border policy since the president has taken office."
"See, and when he talks about the cynicism of the American people, Governor Cuomo, he doesn't understand that cynicism has been baked over decades because people like him have been working more for corporate interests than the people of their state in this country."
"So, please go somewhere and sit down and allow D.A. Bragg to do his job," he added.
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Mike Lindell celebrates election crusade: 'We have been winning now for quite a while'
March 26, 2023
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell declared that he is winning his battle to secure elections in the U.S. because "evil has overplayed its hand."
During an interview with War Room host Steve Bannon on Saturday, Lindell revealed that he would speak at a campaign rally for Donald Trump in Waco later that afternoon to discuss his so-called Election Crime Bureau.
"You've seen the effort to get Trump, right?" Bannon asked. "You're living this every day as you go around with the Election Crime Bureau."
"You know, evil has overplayed its hand, and you're, you know, you're attacking our Constitution to go after this great president," Lindell said before attacking Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). "I want to tell this to everyone. It's showing in the polls as we have the Trojan horse down there, Ron DeSantis, and we brought it out."
"We brought out here, you know, all this stuff about Ron," he said. "It's as we bring more and more stuff is heard there, and then the more and more they attack our real president, of course, the polls are going to go through the roof."
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Lindell predicted that Trump would become the next president of the United States if he faced arrest before the 2024 election.
"We know there's the evil does not want him as our president, but when 75% of our country want him as president, I'm sorry, you're supposed to be a government for the people," Lindell opined. "God's had his hand in all this for a long time, but over two years now, and if this would have all been revealed right away, I mean, if we put in our great president right away, we would have lost our country forever."
"I've said it before, but evil is greedy, and more and more just keeps getting exposed," he said of the 2020 election. "But also with evil being greedy and overplaying their hand, all of the — all the people out there that even people on the left now are coming to the right and because they're destroying our country and people can see that."
"Evil is not only greedy, but they're desperate and very desperate," Lindell added. "They're losing. We have been winning now for quite a while. You all might not feel it out there, but you're going to see the manifestation of two years, of the last two years, coming through over this next two years."
Lindell is facing defamation lawsuits from Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic USA for claiming that voting machines were used to steal the 2020 election from Trump.
Watch the video below from Real America's Voice or at the link.
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