trump was being arraigned in florida not only were fake electors from trump s plot to overturn the 2020 election, not only were those fake electors testifying before special counsel jack smith sent january six grand jury, but at the same moment congressional republicans were holding their own bizarro hearing about january 6th. at the exact same time of former president was arraigned on federal criminal charges related to unlawfully hoarding documents. witnesses were testifying in jack smith s other sprawling federal investigation into that same former president all the while that former presidents congressional defenders were hard at work whitewashing the january 6th insurrection. all the same time. that sort of wild convergence belongs in the history books. and while the arraignment and investigation of a former president is clearly of utmost importance here i think it is worth paying attention to the fake story from tuesday as well. the thing that was happening in congress.
mistakes, including failing to thoroughly check out longtime friend, protegee, and business partner bernard kerik. when you are mary of new york you make 100,000 decisions. some of them you make wrong. he spoke his carry is expected to face federal criminal charges in new york tomorrow. prosecutors have alleged he took gifts from a company with reputed organized crime ties well in charge of new york city s prisons and help the company try to get a city license. rudy giuliani s longtime friend in new york city police commissioner bernie kerik had just been indicted on corruption charges including tax fraud, obstruction of justice and lying to the white house. bernie kerik could become a prominent figure in the bush administration, but that all came crashing down after the fbi charged bernie kerik an acute corruption case. he would eventually plead guilty to eight felony counts. the trial bernie kerik was kind
the case with his personal aide and his alleged coconspirators walt nauta, with any other witnesses are victims on our list that will be provided by the government. now all of this, including judge goodman s role, all of this has prompted many experts to why exactly jacks mitt is not being tougher on trump. is it because he s a former president? is it some sort of double standard? is this just the way things get done when you have a former president in court? it s. i the times reports that the lack of constructions here could be a part of the special counsel strategy to speed up the process by avoiding distracting fights and political sensitivities and also to let the indictment speak for itself. quote, mr. smith s decision not to demand any conditions of the arraignment reflected a belief that prosecutor should avoid impairing mr. trump s ability to campaign.
smith actually wants. i think it does, alex. i think that judge cannon jumped right on it right away and said look, why don t you guys get your clearances done so that we can start handing this evidence out and start looking through it. remember, i think she wants to move things and i think it went well there were appeals to the 11th circuit but remember the whole fiasco with the special master that the trump team went four and a lot of their efforts in front of her put up or shut up about declassified documents went nowhere. and i think that she s going to want to move this case. i think it s a good thing that a trump appointed judge has this case. he s getting all the due process, all the fairness that he could possibly want. jack smith has got incredibly strong case. i think is going to make an effort to move it quickly, with alacrity. but he wants to make sure that all of the process favors the former presidents that if there is a guilty verdict and i expect there will be there
perhaps they want to protect this image that there won t be indictments. but that spread especial counsel the mueller report the special counsel did write a voluminous report, of course in that case trump was then the president and doj policy constrain them. based on the evidence that we have seen today and the witnesses that special counsel appears to be. it would be surprising if no one was charged naked connection with january 6th. prosecutors often pursue a strategy where they indict some folks they have a solid case against and then they flipped them and move up the chain. it s tough to believe that smith would back off of a target like trump, the one to of course you have to believe that you have to be looking for evidence of his involvement in january 6th. to just walk away from that without making some sort of effort with lower level