everybody at the fbi knew this lawyer and knew exactly who his clients were and who his firm was working for. it was not like a secret that he had those associations with nefarious democrats. but that indictment from john durham does its best to turn that into a scandal, that someone with, gasp, ties to democrats brought information about trump and russia to the fbi. the indictment in that case spins pages and pages and pages of unsupported allegations backed with cherry-picked quotes to try to paint the alleged communication channel between the trump organization and that russian bank as a big smear campaign that was known to be false but was nevertheless deliberately cooked up by the clinton campaign to bamboozle the fbi and make trump look bad. and that tracks with the trump allegation that everything related was a hoax and deep state by the democrats. that was the last statement by john durham last month.
case. it didn t take long for them to hand down those first indictments. by july 1st they handed down those first indictments after they convened in late may.ntt but they were convened for a period of six months, and now it is six months on from that. we learned today in the washington post they have convened a second grand jury. and that second special grand jury is already seated, it s already in place, they re already hearing evidence in new york including, according to the washington post hearing evidence today.ed s ial the post reports that while the first grand jury in the r trump organization case handed i down those multi-part, multiple-defendant felony charges alleging millions of dollars in tax fraud, the secont grand jury that has just been put in place now, according to t the post they re looking at different allegations. they re looking at other different types of fraud allegations related to the valuation of various trump properties. now, that type of allegation a
again, we shall see. former president trump himself this afternoon was confronted with this undoubtedly very un-william headline in the washington post. ed quote, manhattan d.a. convenes new grand jury in trump organization case to weigh potential charges. former president trump this summer had to endure multiple felony criminal charges being i brought against his business, the trump organization, and personally against the chief financial officer of his business, a man named allen weisselberg.ly those charges came about roughly five weeks after new york prosecutors had convened their first special grand jury to meet on that case and hear the evidence related to it with sort of unusual frequency. they called it a special grand jury because that special grand jury they convened in may didn t just meet weekly to look at that evidence, they met three days a week for six solid months looking at the evidence in that
rosendale, who was running for senate at the time, there was a recording madest at the fund raiser that a rosendale held in which he was asked if there s going to be outside spending in his race. he said i had a conversation with chris cox, who was the head lobbyist at the nra. he told me the nra is coming in with a spending the next month. lo and behold the next month the nra comes in with an what s called an independent expenditure.hr so you have a case where he knew what was going to be going on with the spend spending, so he onlydi admitted it, but bragged that he had been coordinating with the nra over it. in terms of his if that s borne out in court, what does that mean in terms of potential
0 race. virginia and new jersey are the only two states that hold their governor races in a year like this, the odd numbered year right after a presidential election, they are the only two states that do, if they do it every four years, all the way back to the 1980, every year t the president has seen the governor loose his race bothe in virginia and in new jersey. that s the way the pendulum swings. president biden this week actually became the first newly elected president of the united states since ronald reagan to not fall prey to that curse. to not have his party lose bothe those governorships. biden s democratic party did e lose the virginia governor s ir race but they won in new jersey, which we found out this time last night, when nbc news made the call. well, that said, tonight within the past hour the republican candidate in new jersey, jack ciattarelli, has just posted a video on twitter saying he is not conceding that race. he does not think this is over. he says he has a t