45th President of the United States, Donald Trump (Vol. 12)
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Amazing what 5 months in jail will do to beliefs
Doug Jensen, a QAnon-believing Capitol rioter who traveled to D.C. from Iowa, has turned on the conspiracy theory, calling it "silly" and a "pack of lies" in a statement through his lawyer, Christopher David, as he tries to face the charges against him.
It's a significant change of heart from his behavior on that day, when footage showed him chasing a Capitol Police officer in a QAnon shirt.
"After spending five months 'languishing in a D.C. jail cell', Jensen has had a change of heart, calling the conspiracy theory that led him from his home in Des Moines, Iowa, to the nation's capital 'a pack of lies,'" reported David Gilbert. "'[My client] became a victim of numerous conspiracy theories that were being fed to him over the internet by a number of very clever people, who were uniquely equipped with slight, if any, moral or social consciousness,'
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k787qv/the-qanon-s...
Doug Jensen, a QAnon-believing Capitol rioter who traveled to D.C. from Iowa, has turned on the conspiracy theory, calling it "silly" and a "pack of lies" in a statement through his lawyer, Christopher David, as he tries to face the charges against him.
It's a significant change of heart from his behavior on that day, when footage showed him chasing a Capitol Police officer in a QAnon shirt.
"After spending five months 'languishing in a D.C. jail cell', Jensen has had a change of heart, calling the conspiracy theory that led him from his home in Des Moines, Iowa, to the nation's capital 'a pack of lies,'" reported David Gilbert. "'[My client] became a victim of numerous conspiracy theories that were being fed to him over the internet by a number of very clever people, who were uniquely equipped with slight, if any, moral or social consciousness,'
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k787qv/the-qanon-s...
"Mark Zuckerberg "kept calling me and coming to the White House for dinner telling me how great I was"."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57408179
Hmmm, highly intelligent, self made Billionaire Tech Boss flatters the fragile Ego of a delusional, narcissistic simpleton......Oh my, what! a challenge that must have been! It's almost as though he wanted something....????
Even so, it's amazing how many People just casually wander up to him, call in on him (likely with Tears in their Eyes). Every last one of them just desperate to tell him how incredible he is.
All this without any intervention from his personal security. Makes you wonder if the amount he's "incurring" for security personel is actually worth it, so! many well wishers........
"Who are they to dictate good and evil, if they themselves are evil?" Bleated the most Godless, evil creature of modern times.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57408179
Hmmm, highly intelligent, self made Billionaire Tech Boss flatters the fragile Ego of a delusional, narcissistic simpleton......Oh my, what! a challenge that must have been! It's almost as though he wanted something....????
Even so, it's amazing how many People just casually wander up to him, call in on him (likely with Tears in their Eyes). Every last one of them just desperate to tell him how incredible he is.
All this without any intervention from his personal security. Makes you wonder if the amount he's "incurring" for security personel is actually worth it, so! many well wishers........
"Who are they to dictate good and evil, if they themselves are evil?" Bleated the most Godless, evil creature of modern times.
The Boston Globe have a huge article
The case for prosecuting Donald Trump
Saving American democracy for the long run requires a clear condemnation of the Trump presidency. That means making clear that no one is above the law.
Norms in a democracy are only as good as our willingness to enforce them.
After the precedent-busting, lawbreaking presidency of Donald Trump, Congress needs to pass new laws to constrain future officeholders. That’s the case the Globe has made in this series: curbs on the pardon power, safeguards against nepotism, broadening the power of Congress to investigate the president, protections for whistle-blowers, requirements that presidents make financial disclosures to root out conflicts of interest.
All of that is crucial to protect Americans against a repeat of the last four years.
So now there is only one way left to restore deterrence and convey to future presidents that the rule of law applies to them. The Justice Department must abandon two centuries of tradition by indicting and prosecuting Donald Trump for his conduct in office.
https://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2021...
The case for prosecuting Donald Trump
Saving American democracy for the long run requires a clear condemnation of the Trump presidency. That means making clear that no one is above the law.
Norms in a democracy are only as good as our willingness to enforce them.
After the precedent-busting, lawbreaking presidency of Donald Trump, Congress needs to pass new laws to constrain future officeholders. That’s the case the Globe has made in this series: curbs on the pardon power, safeguards against nepotism, broadening the power of Congress to investigate the president, protections for whistle-blowers, requirements that presidents make financial disclosures to root out conflicts of interest.
All of that is crucial to protect Americans against a repeat of the last four years.
So now there is only one way left to restore deterrence and convey to future presidents that the rule of law applies to them. The Justice Department must abandon two centuries of tradition by indicting and prosecuting Donald Trump for his conduct in office.
https://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2021...
Byker28i said:
The Boston Globe have a huge article
The case for prosecuting Donald Trump
Saving American democracy for the long run requires a clear condemnation of the Trump presidency. That means making clear that no one is above the law.
Norms in a democracy are only as good as our willingness to enforce them.
After the precedent-busting, lawbreaking presidency of Donald Trump, Congress needs to pass new laws to constrain future officeholders. That’s the case the Globe has made in this series: curbs on the pardon power, safeguards against nepotism, broadening the power of Congress to investigate the president, protections for whistle-blowers, requirements that presidents make financial disclosures to root out conflicts of interest.
All of that is crucial to protect Americans against a repeat of the last four years.
So now there is only one way left to restore deterrence and convey to future presidents that the rule of law applies to them. The Justice Department must abandon two centuries of tradition by indicting and prosecuting Donald Trump for his conduct in office.
https://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2021...
Given that he The case for prosecuting Donald Trump
Saving American democracy for the long run requires a clear condemnation of the Trump presidency. That means making clear that no one is above the law.
Norms in a democracy are only as good as our willingness to enforce them.
After the precedent-busting, lawbreaking presidency of Donald Trump, Congress needs to pass new laws to constrain future officeholders. That’s the case the Globe has made in this series: curbs on the pardon power, safeguards against nepotism, broadening the power of Congress to investigate the president, protections for whistle-blowers, requirements that presidents make financial disclosures to root out conflicts of interest.
All of that is crucial to protect Americans against a repeat of the last four years.
So now there is only one way left to restore deterrence and convey to future presidents that the rule of law applies to them. The Justice Department must abandon two centuries of tradition by indicting and prosecuting Donald Trump for his conduct in office.
https://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2021...
Two Senate committees are set to release new reports later this month on the security failures surrounding the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, but they are leaving out President Donald Trump’s role in inciting the riot.
The lack of answers is insulting to many who defended the Capitol that day, including two officers who are speaking out about their experiences during the attack.
Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell:
"They kept saying, 'Trump sent me. We won't listen to you. We are here to take over the Capitol, we're here to hang Mike Pence.'"
"They thought we were there for them and we weren't, so they turned against us. It was very scary because I thought I was going to lose my life right there."
https://www.wkbw.com/national/newsy/capitol-police...
Remember trump lying saying his supporters were hugging and kissing
Trump defended his supporters who stormed the US Capitol after his unfounded claims of election fraud, and claimed “a lot of the people were waved in” by police during the deadly insurrection, who were all “hugging and kissing”
“Some of them went in and ... they’re hugging and kissing the police and the guards,” the former US president told Fox News. “You know, they had great relationships.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/...
The lack of answers is insulting to many who defended the Capitol that day, including two officers who are speaking out about their experiences during the attack.
Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell:
"They kept saying, 'Trump sent me. We won't listen to you. We are here to take over the Capitol, we're here to hang Mike Pence.'"
"They thought we were there for them and we weren't, so they turned against us. It was very scary because I thought I was going to lose my life right there."
https://www.wkbw.com/national/newsy/capitol-police...
Remember trump lying saying his supporters were hugging and kissing
Trump defended his supporters who stormed the US Capitol after his unfounded claims of election fraud, and claimed “a lot of the people were waved in” by police during the deadly insurrection, who were all “hugging and kissing”
“Some of them went in and ... they’re hugging and kissing the police and the guards,” the former US president told Fox News. “You know, they had great relationships.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/...
House Judiciary Dems request a briefing with AG Garland to discuss DOJ's position in E. Jean Carroll vs. Trump, calling DOJ's brief "profoundly misguided."
Rep. Nadler
@RepJerryNadleZ .@TheJusticeDept should not spend taxpayer dollars to defend former President Trump from a defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll. Their decision to do so is profoundly misguided.
Rep. Nadler
@RepJerryNadleZ .@TheJusticeDept should not spend taxpayer dollars to defend former President Trump from a defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll. Their decision to do so is profoundly misguided.
The House Judiciary Committee has just released a transcript of their closed door interview with former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn:
https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/mcgahn_i...
McGahn's attempt to rewrite history, downplay his involvement...
Nadler: "McGahn provided the Committee with substantial new information—including firsthand accounts of President Trump's increasingly out of control behavior, and insight into concerns that the former President's conduct could expose both Trump and McGahn to criminal liability."
Judiciary Commitee says: McGahn described Trump's conduct over the course of the Mueller investigation as increasingly erratic. Trump's directions to McGahn were "crazy s
t" that threatened to "spiral out of control" and to a "point of no return."
Trump directed McGahn to write a false statement—knowing that the statement was false, and knowing that carrying out this order might expose McGahn to criminal liability, including prosecution by the Special Counsel.
Trump clearly lied when he told the press that he 'never suggested firing Mueller. Trump’s repeated attempts to get McGahn to call Rosenstein and raise the issue of Robert Mueller’s purported conflicts.
The "I'm fked" comment from trump when Mueller was appointed
Eric Garland puts it better:
@ericgarland
ISTEL: So do you remember how Trump reacted to Mueller's appointment?
MCGAHN: He screamed like a third-grade girl.
https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/14027189567...
Garland puts his own summary on the report
https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/14027189567...
Remember how team trump was seizing journalist phone records to find leaks. McGahn was leaking to the WP
Edit: Eric Garland
@ericgarland
SUMMARY:
McGahn is bullstting. He's still trying to hold back the tsunami with a carwash bucket. He ain't got no plea deal.
https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/mcgahn_i...
McGahn's attempt to rewrite history, downplay his involvement...
Nadler: "McGahn provided the Committee with substantial new information—including firsthand accounts of President Trump's increasingly out of control behavior, and insight into concerns that the former President's conduct could expose both Trump and McGahn to criminal liability."
Judiciary Commitee says: McGahn described Trump's conduct over the course of the Mueller investigation as increasingly erratic. Trump's directions to McGahn were "crazy s
t" that threatened to "spiral out of control" and to a "point of no return."Trump directed McGahn to write a false statement—knowing that the statement was false, and knowing that carrying out this order might expose McGahn to criminal liability, including prosecution by the Special Counsel.
Trump clearly lied when he told the press that he 'never suggested firing Mueller. Trump’s repeated attempts to get McGahn to call Rosenstein and raise the issue of Robert Mueller’s purported conflicts.
The "I'm f
ked" comment from trump when Mueller was appointedEric Garland puts it better:
@ericgarland
ISTEL: So do you remember how Trump reacted to Mueller's appointment?
MCGAHN: He screamed like a third-grade girl.
https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/14027189567...
Garland puts his own summary on the report
https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/14027189567...
Remember how team trump was seizing journalist phone records to find leaks. McGahn was leaking to the WP
Edit: Eric Garland
@ericgarland
SUMMARY:
McGahn is bulls
tting. He's still trying to hold back the tsunami with a carwash bucket. He ain't got no plea deal. Edited by Byker28i on Thursday 10th June 09:02
Speaking of trump going after reporters
The Trump administration battled with CNN for half a year to obtain the email records of a reporter and insisted it all take place under an extraordinary order of secrecy, CNN's lead attorney revealed on Wednesday.
The pursuit -- which started in July 2020 under then-Attorney General William Barr with a demand for two months' of CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr's 2017 email logs -- continued even after a federal judge told the Justice Department its argument for access to Starr's internal emails was "speculative" and "unanchored in any facts."
The Trump administration's secret pursuit represents a highly unusual and unrelenting push for journalists' records. It included putting CNN general counsel David Vigilante under a gag order prohibiting him from sharing any details about the government's efforts with anyone beyond the network's president, top attorneys at CNN's corporate parent and attorneys at an outside law firm.
Had Vigilante violated that order, he would have risked being held in contempt of court or potentially faced a felony prosecution for obstruction of justice.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/09/politics/trump-...
what happens when you have a tame AG prepeared to do anything, use any resource
The Trump administration battled with CNN for half a year to obtain the email records of a reporter and insisted it all take place under an extraordinary order of secrecy, CNN's lead attorney revealed on Wednesday.
The pursuit -- which started in July 2020 under then-Attorney General William Barr with a demand for two months' of CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr's 2017 email logs -- continued even after a federal judge told the Justice Department its argument for access to Starr's internal emails was "speculative" and "unanchored in any facts."
The Trump administration's secret pursuit represents a highly unusual and unrelenting push for journalists' records. It included putting CNN general counsel David Vigilante under a gag order prohibiting him from sharing any details about the government's efforts with anyone beyond the network's president, top attorneys at CNN's corporate parent and attorneys at an outside law firm.
Had Vigilante violated that order, he would have risked being held in contempt of court or potentially faced a felony prosecution for obstruction of justice.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/09/politics/trump-...
what happens when you have a tame AG prepeared to do anything, use any resource
Speaking of attempts to rewrite history
Trump and Hannity's friendship 'began to break down' when the Fox News host grew 'disgusted' with the 2020 election lies, according to a book
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-hannitys-friendsh...
Yeah right, it's why he continues to push trumps views and opinions on his show
Trump and Hannity's friendship 'began to break down' when the Fox News host grew 'disgusted' with the 2020 election lies, according to a book
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-hannitys-friendsh...
Yeah right, it's why he continues to push trumps views and opinions on his show
Bad news for Weisselberg, they may not need him or his testimony if they have McConney to testify, which is really bad news for Weisselberg.
On Wednesday's edition of MSNBC's "The Beat," former top Robert Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissman highlighted how the calling of Trump Organization executive Jeff McConney to testify before a Manhattan grand jury signals prosecutors might already have their window into what makes the company tick.
"I'd like to throw out one more name, which is Jeff McConney, because I don't think that's gotten enough attention because last week the reports were that he went into the state grand jury and he is the controller of the Trump Organization," said Weissman. "So, again, all speculation, but clearly you're looking for an insider. That's why there is so much focus on Allen Weisselberg trying to get somebody who is on the inside who would know where every penny went. Well, that's the controller as well as the CFO. So if Jeff McConney is cooperating, that is really bad news potentially for Weisselberg and for the Trump Organization and other individuals up to and including the former president."
"In other words, Manhattan may have found their insider, because it would be unusual to put somebody like McConney into the state grand jury, where he would be given immunity as soon as he testifies automatically, if they didn't think that he had something useful to provide," added Weissman.
https://www.alternet.org/2021/06/new-york-da/
On Wednesday's edition of MSNBC's "The Beat," former top Robert Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissman highlighted how the calling of Trump Organization executive Jeff McConney to testify before a Manhattan grand jury signals prosecutors might already have their window into what makes the company tick.
"I'd like to throw out one more name, which is Jeff McConney, because I don't think that's gotten enough attention because last week the reports were that he went into the state grand jury and he is the controller of the Trump Organization," said Weissman. "So, again, all speculation, but clearly you're looking for an insider. That's why there is so much focus on Allen Weisselberg trying to get somebody who is on the inside who would know where every penny went. Well, that's the controller as well as the CFO. So if Jeff McConney is cooperating, that is really bad news potentially for Weisselberg and for the Trump Organization and other individuals up to and including the former president."
"In other words, Manhattan may have found their insider, because it would be unusual to put somebody like McConney into the state grand jury, where he would be given immunity as soon as he testifies automatically, if they didn't think that he had something useful to provide," added Weissman.
https://www.alternet.org/2021/06/new-york-da/
Byker28i said:
Speaking of attempts to rewrite history
Trump and Hannity's friendship 'began to break down' when the Fox News host grew 'disgusted' with the 2020 election lies, according to a book
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-hannitys-friendsh...
Yeah right, it's why he continues to push trumps views and opinions on his show
With blind and deaf spectators you can ride every horse in the race and never lose. Trump and Hannity's friendship 'began to break down' when the Fox News host grew 'disgusted' with the 2020 election lies, according to a book
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-hannitys-friendsh...
Yeah right, it's why he continues to push trumps views and opinions on his show
too late to bolt the stable door?
trump's post-election political team has fired one of its top fundraisers who played a key role in organizing the January 6 "Save America Rally" that preceded Trump supporters' attack on the US Capitol, Republican strategists and Trump advisors told Insider.
The Trump-approved group America Alliance fired veteran fundraiser Caroline Wren at the end of last month, according to the Trump advisors. Other Trump fundraising groups sent cease-and-desist letters to Wren demanding she not cite Trump in her own efforts to recruit high-dollar donors, they said.
other Republicans said Wren got caught in the turbulence of Trump's ever-changing, post-election political efforts as she attempted to extract herself from Trump's political team and start her own, yet-to-be-named network of conservative donors to bankroll Republican races up and down the ballot.
https://www.businessinsider.com/top-trump-aide-car...
trump's post-election political team has fired one of its top fundraisers who played a key role in organizing the January 6 "Save America Rally" that preceded Trump supporters' attack on the US Capitol, Republican strategists and Trump advisors told Insider.
The Trump-approved group America Alliance fired veteran fundraiser Caroline Wren at the end of last month, according to the Trump advisors. Other Trump fundraising groups sent cease-and-desist letters to Wren demanding she not cite Trump in her own efforts to recruit high-dollar donors, they said.
other Republicans said Wren got caught in the turbulence of Trump's ever-changing, post-election political efforts as she attempted to extract herself from Trump's political team and start her own, yet-to-be-named network of conservative donors to bankroll Republican races up and down the ballot.
https://www.businessinsider.com/top-trump-aide-car...
Another in trouble for pushing trumps Big Lie
The Texas bar association is investigating whether Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton's failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud amounted to professional misconduct.
The State Bar of Texas initially declined to take up a Democratic Party activist’s complaint that Paxton’s petitioning of the U.S. Supreme Court to block Joe Biden’s victory was frivolous and unethical. But a tribunal that oversees grievances against lawyers overturned that decision late last month and ordered the bar to look into the accusations against the Republican official.
The investigation is yet another liability for the embattled attorney general, who is facing a years-old criminal case, a separate, newer FBI investigation, and a Republican primary opponent who is seeking to make electoral hay of the various controversies. It also makes Paxton one of the highest profile lawyers to face professional blowback over their roles in Donald Trump’s effort to delegitimize his defeat.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-...
The Texas bar association is investigating whether Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton's failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud amounted to professional misconduct.
The State Bar of Texas initially declined to take up a Democratic Party activist’s complaint that Paxton’s petitioning of the U.S. Supreme Court to block Joe Biden’s victory was frivolous and unethical. But a tribunal that oversees grievances against lawyers overturned that decision late last month and ordered the bar to look into the accusations against the Republican official.
The investigation is yet another liability for the embattled attorney general, who is facing a years-old criminal case, a separate, newer FBI investigation, and a Republican primary opponent who is seeking to make electoral hay of the various controversies. It also makes Paxton one of the highest profile lawyers to face professional blowback over their roles in Donald Trump’s effort to delegitimize his defeat.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-...
Trump's impeachment lawyers are now representing Capitol riot defendants.
Attorneys Michael van der Veen and Bruce Castor defended former President Donald Trump at his Senate impeachment trial over allegedly inciting the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection.
Even as van der Veen, Castor and the Trump defense team called the impeachment "political theater" and ultimately secured Trump's acquittal, they condemned the rioters for bringing "unprecedented havoc, mayhem and death" to the Capitol. They argued in a legal brief that the rioters' actions deserve "robust and swift investigation and prosecution."
Now, van der Veen and Castor find themselves on the other side of those prosecutions, defending at least three people charged in connection with the Capitol breach.
Prosecutors allege that van der Veen's client, Marine Corps veteran Jason Dolan of Florida, is affiliated with the extremist militia group the Oath Keepers, and that he helped plan, and ultimately participated in the storming of the Capitol.
Castor is representing two defendants facing much less serious charges.
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/08/1004027894/trump-im...
Attorneys Michael van der Veen and Bruce Castor defended former President Donald Trump at his Senate impeachment trial over allegedly inciting the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection.
Even as van der Veen, Castor and the Trump defense team called the impeachment "political theater" and ultimately secured Trump's acquittal, they condemned the rioters for bringing "unprecedented havoc, mayhem and death" to the Capitol. They argued in a legal brief that the rioters' actions deserve "robust and swift investigation and prosecution."
Now, van der Veen and Castor find themselves on the other side of those prosecutions, defending at least three people charged in connection with the Capitol breach.
Prosecutors allege that van der Veen's client, Marine Corps veteran Jason Dolan of Florida, is affiliated with the extremist militia group the Oath Keepers, and that he helped plan, and ultimately participated in the storming of the Capitol.
Castor is representing two defendants facing much less serious charges.
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/08/1004027894/trump-im...
Last year, a number of GOP state parties failed to disclose transfers in the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, which violates reporting requirements.
"These joint fundraising practices amount to little more than legalized money laundering."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/state-gops-cant-expl...
"These joint fundraising practices amount to little more than legalized money laundering."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/state-gops-cant-expl...
Lin Wood, a pro-Trump attorney who became infamous for backing QAnon conspiracy theories, has failed in his effort to halt a psychiatric evaluation as required by the Georgia Bar Association.
"Clearly, there is a grievance proceeding in the State Bar against Wood. Wood Argues that because he filed this action before there was a finding of probable cause against him, this factor is not satisfied," said the court documents. "However, he cites no law to support his contention that a probable. He cites no law to support the proposition that he has a property right not to be asked to consent to a mental health evaluation. And, as a Defendants pointed out, he has been provided a notice of the claims against him and will have an opportunity to defend himself and raise any constitutional issues before any public discipline is imposed."
Wood could lose his law license in the state after filing many lawsuits nationwide that spouted unfounded conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. Under the Georgia Bar Association rules, a mental illness can be grounds for disbarment.
https://www.rawstory.com/linn-wood-georgia-state-b...
"Clearly, there is a grievance proceeding in the State Bar against Wood. Wood Argues that because he filed this action before there was a finding of probable cause against him, this factor is not satisfied," said the court documents. "However, he cites no law to support his contention that a probable. He cites no law to support the proposition that he has a property right not to be asked to consent to a mental health evaluation. And, as a Defendants pointed out, he has been provided a notice of the claims against him and will have an opportunity to defend himself and raise any constitutional issues before any public discipline is imposed."
Wood could lose his law license in the state after filing many lawsuits nationwide that spouted unfounded conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. Under the Georgia Bar Association rules, a mental illness can be grounds for disbarment.
https://www.rawstory.com/linn-wood-georgia-state-b...
Remember when trump claimed Obama wiretapped him...
Rep. Eric Swalwell confirms that he was the second Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee who had his data seized by the Trump Justice Department.
Prosecutors in the Trump administration Justice Department subpoenaed Apple for data from the accounts of House Intelligence Committee Democrats -- including Chairman Adam Schiff -- along with their staff and family members as part of a leak investigation, an Intelligence Committee official and a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN.
Rep. Eric Swalwell of California, another Democrat on the committee, told CNN's Don Lemon on Thursday evening that he was notified that his data had been seized as part of the probe as well.
The prosecutors, the New York Times first reported, were looking for the sources behind news stories about contacts between Russia and Trump associates.
The leak hunt began with the FBI sending a subpoena to Apple in February 2018, which included a gag order, seeking metadata on more than 100 accounts as part of an investigation into the disclosure of classified information, the person familiar with the matter said.
The gag order was renewed three times before it expired this year and Apple notified the customers. The House Intelligence Committee determined that along with members of the panel and staff, the dragnet collected the records of family members, including at least one minor, the person said.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/10/politics/house-...
All told, the records of at least a dozen people tied to the committee were seized in 2017 and early 2018 by the Trump admin, including those of Rep. Adam Schiff.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/us/politics/jus...
Rep. Eric Swalwell confirms that he was the second Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee who had his data seized by the Trump Justice Department.
Prosecutors in the Trump administration Justice Department subpoenaed Apple for data from the accounts of House Intelligence Committee Democrats -- including Chairman Adam Schiff -- along with their staff and family members as part of a leak investigation, an Intelligence Committee official and a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN.
Rep. Eric Swalwell of California, another Democrat on the committee, told CNN's Don Lemon on Thursday evening that he was notified that his data had been seized as part of the probe as well.
The prosecutors, the New York Times first reported, were looking for the sources behind news stories about contacts between Russia and Trump associates.
The leak hunt began with the FBI sending a subpoena to Apple in February 2018, which included a gag order, seeking metadata on more than 100 accounts as part of an investigation into the disclosure of classified information, the person familiar with the matter said.
The gag order was renewed three times before it expired this year and Apple notified the customers. The House Intelligence Committee determined that along with members of the panel and staff, the dragnet collected the records of family members, including at least one minor, the person said.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/10/politics/house-...
All told, the records of at least a dozen people tied to the committee were seized in 2017 and early 2018 by the Trump admin, including those of Rep. Adam Schiff.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/us/politics/jus...
Edited by Byker28i on Friday 11th June 07:27
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