Retrieve clearly relate to that time period, right around the election. All those materials could be relevant. Its fairly typical for prosecutors to obtain social media from the platforms like twitter, like facebook and others. I think the only reason this is getting so much attention is that they resisted in this case, and it had to go to the Appeals Court to get timely compliance. But clearly the evidence here that is important to jack smith in the investigators. So im sure well see pieces of that during the trial. Thats right. Twitter, elon musk, resisted, and the company was fined 350,000 bucks for delaying the execution of that Search Warrant. Were also still learning more on the previously secret memo laying out a plan and a roadmap for the fake electors scheme that was to overturn the 2020 election. Theres a lot in this memo, and i think with the memo really does here is contextualize all the events we have been getting, from the january six subcommittee, and from this indictmen
Night. Good evening once again. Im stephanie ruhle. We begin this evening with the scope of the Special Counsel jack smiths investigation into donald trump and new signs that it is still growing. The latest revelation that investigators executed a Search Warrant of Donald Trumps twitter account and the company had to be held in contempt by a federal judge before handing over the material. Here is one former prosecutor on the kind of evidence that they must have been looking for. The twitter files that the Justice Department wants to retrieve clearly relate to that time period, right around the election. All those materials could be relevant. Its fairly typical for prosecutors to obtain social media from the platforms like twitter, like facebook and others. I think the only reason this is getting so much attention is that they resisted in this case, and it had to go to the Appeals Court to get timely compliance. But clearly the evidence here that is important to jack smith in the invest
up to. sam, let s talk about this other part of the investigation. i m megan inre sth looking intos pack. what are you hearing about that? well, look, part of this case rests on the idea that trump s operations were essentially deceiving voters, knowingly raising money for something that they knew was either a moon shot or plain old unlikely to happen legal challenge to the election. that s fraudulent. you re taking money from unsuspecting people by promising them something in the knowingly doing something else with it. this ties back to the chesebro memo which is, look, fundamentally what he was outlining was not a legitimate philosophical or legal avenue for challenging the election. he was trying to create a predicate to create crayons chaos. in that chaos they were hoping that somehow congress would find a way, or the supreme court would enact a rule that
pushing certain sorts of notions about electoral fraud and weaponizing doj as part of trump s scheme. it really looks like chesebro is very likely the language between john eastman in jeffrey clark and that that explains his sudden appearance at doj after the election was lost and the critically important use that this memo was put to. again, we are not talking about some fly-by-night attorneys. we are talking about harvard educated, well respected scholars. and this is what where they are up to. sam, let s talk about this other part of the investigation. i m megan interested. jack smith looking into trump s pack. what are you hearing about that? well, look, part of this case rests on the idea that trump s operations were essentially deceiving voters, knowingly raising money for something that they knew was either a moon shot or plain old unlikely to happen legal challenge to the election. that s fraudulent. you re taking money from unsuspecting people by promising them something i