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Trump's allies admit they've handed  'incriminating' info on 'lunatic' Sidney Powell to Jack Smith

Former Donald Trump election fraud advocate Sidney Powell should expect a criminal indictment in the very near future because allies of the former president have been ratting her out to special counsel Jack Smith's investigators.

According to a report from Rolling Stone, the controversial lawyer has been thrown under the bus by Trump insiders for her part in a plot to steal the 2020 presidential election.

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FBI officials 'suppressed' probes into Trump and Giuliani: veteran agent

FBI officials "suppressed" efforts to investigate former President Donald Trump, his associate Rudy Giuliani, and other members of his inner circle, according to a veteran counterintelligence agent, Insider reported on Wednesday.

"The agent, who served 14 years as a special agent for the bureau, including a long stint in Russia-focused counter-intelligence, claims in a 22-page statement that his bosses interfered with his work in 'a highly suspicious suppression of investigations and intelligence-gathering' aimed at protecting 'certain politically active figures and possibly also FBI agents' who were connected to Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs," reported Mattathias Schwartz. This included ceasing investigations of Giuliani, and severing contact with sources offering information on corruption in the Trump administration generally.

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'Turning the tables': How Fani Willis could take down Rudy Giuliani using his own method

Before he helped former President Donald Trump push conspiracy theories and schemes about the 2020 election, before he was even mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani was a federal prosecutor in Manhattan who helped take out the mob. Now, he could ultimately go down in Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis' election interference case using the same type of anti-organized crime statute he himself used.

This comes as Willis reportedly is preparing to issue a dozen indictments in the election cases for the fake elector scheme and efforts to breach voting systems, including the potential for racketeering charges.

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‘They’re coming for everyone’: Looming Georgia indictments send Trump allies running for cover

As Fulton Country District Attorney Fani Willis nears her decision on whether to indict Donald Trump over allegations that he tried to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election, the former president’s allies are growing increasingly nervous that they could be ensnared in the sprawling probe, Rolling Stone reports.

Willis is likely to indict a number of Trump’s associates in addition to the former president, according to the report, which cites three sources who have spoken with prosecutors.

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Grand jurors 'deeply affected' by testimony from harassed Fulton poll workers: report

Members of the Fulton County grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump for election interference were emotionally moved by testimony from election poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, reported The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday.

Freeman and Moss, a mother and daughter duo, were targeted by name as part of Trump associate Rudy Giuliani's conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election being stolen. He claimed that the two of them brought in "suitcases" stuffed with fake ballots while counting votes at the State Farm Arena.

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Trump's co-conspirators 'highly likely' to be indicted in separate case: Mueller prosecutor

Former President Donald Trump's indictment in the 2020 election plot case lists out six unindicted co-conspirators — not mentioning them by name, although many of their identities are obvious, like Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and Sidney Powell. But they aren't off the hook just because they haven't been charged yet. In fact, argued former Mueller investigation prosecutor Andrew Weissman on MSNBC Tuesday evening, they are likely to face charges down the line.

"Are we going to see a superseding indictment here, or do you think this grand jury action is about the co-conspirators who are unnamed in the initial indictment?" asked anchor Alex Wagner.

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Smartmatic slams Giuliani over ‘dog ate my homework’-type excuses in lawsuit: report

Smartmatic voting systems in court filings Monday accused former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor, of using “dog ate my homework”-type excuses top avoid turning over documents in a defamation case, CNN reports.

Smartmatic is suing Fox News and Giuliani, among others, in a $2.7 billion defamation suit over false claims about the 2020 election.

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‘Might have to give those millions back’: Legal experts say Jack Smith could seize Trump's fundraising cash

Special Counsel Jack Smith‘s investigation appears to include the reportedly millions of dollars Donald Trump‘s PAC raised – and spent – after the 2020 election, with legal experts suggesting if the massive amounts of money raised were based off fraudulent claims, the federal government might “seize” those funds or require them to be returned.

“This isn’t over yet,” says NBC News national security analyst Frank Figliuzzi, a former top FBI official. “When you raise millions based on a fraudulent claim, you’ve committed a crime. And, you just might have to give those millions back.”

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Revealed: Ex-Trump lawyer who now represents Bernie Kerik describes Jack Smith's witness grilling

A former lawyer for Donald Trump offered a peek into the grand jury investigation being overseen by special counsel Jack Smith.

Former New York City police commissioner Bernie Kerik answered multiple questions about the Save America PAC's fundraising between Election Day 2020 and Jan. 6, 2021, according to his lawyer Tim Parlatore, who was present for the closed-door interview, reported Politico.

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Jan. 6 grand jury reconvenes fueling speculation that Jack Smith's investigation is not complete

Grand jury members who last week handed down an indictment of Donald Trump over efforts to overturn the 2020 election result reconvened Tuesday – fueling speculation that their investigation is not yet complete.

The jury members were spotted at the federal courthouse in Washington D.C. for the first time since Special Counsel Jack Smith charged the former president, CNN reported.

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John Eastman's lawyer shrugs off his client seeking a Trump pardon: 'Any reasonable person' would have done the same

The far-right lawyer and alleged mastermind of the plot to have former Vice President Mike Pence overturn the 2020 election results didn't incriminate himself by considering asking Donald Trump for a pardon, his attorney said Monday. In fact, he added, any "reasonable" person would have done the same.

John Eastman, was identified as an unindicted co-conspirator in special counsel Jack Smith's case against the former president — and he appears to have known he was at legal risk because reporting last year revealed he asked Rudy Giuliani about whether he could get a pre-emptive pardon.

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Jack Smith grills Bernie Kerik for 5 hours about Rudy Giuliani's part in Jan. 6 plot: report

Former New York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik met with prosecutors for special counsel Jack Smith Monday as part of the investigation into the 2020 election plot, CNN reported on Monday.

According to the report, Kerik, a close ally of Trump associate Rudy Giuliani, was asked for information on what Giuliani tried to do to gather evidence that the election was stolen from the former president. He was seen arriving for the interview with his attorney on Monday morning, where he stayed for five hours before they departed.

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Rudy Giuliani put Manhattan apartment on the market days before latest Trump indictment

Rudy Giuliani listed his Manhattan apartment for sale shortly before Donald Trump was indicted for trying to subvert the 2020 election.

The former New York City mayor is widely believed to be the first unindicted co-conspirator listed in the charges against Trump, and his apartment went up for sale five days before the indictment was handed up, reported Insider.

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