Warrant for donald trump. An Appeals Court opinion states, quote, the District Court found probable cause to search the twitter account for evidence of criminal offenses. Turns out that twitter and jack smith Squared Off On Whether Trump should be told about the Search Warrant, with the Federal Court ultimately ruling to keep the warrant a secret from trump. It says that, quote, the District Court found there was reasonable grounds to believe that disclosing the warrant to former President Trump would seriously jeopardize the Ongoing Investigation by giving him an opportunity to destroy evidence, change patterns of behavior or notify confederates. Its hard to remember now given that the expresident was banned for twitter for years and has not posted since his return, but his twitter account was one of the most powerful weapons in the aftermath of the 2020 election. He used it to spread baseless Conspiracy Theories to his millions of followers and urged his supporters to go to washingto
Stretched these statutes in order to try to capture this behavior. Laura for me the words farcical. Ridiculous, abusive those words came to mind. But, after going over the document for the second time earlier today i realized its far worse than any of that what jack smith and his boss Merrick Garland are doing not just to trump, but to the nation Going Forward is devastating. Now, the doj, the white house, every member of Congress Knows the truth. The rag tag group of maga supporters who busted into the capitol on january 6th it no meaningful effect on the democratic process on that day. Only propagandists could call it an insurrection. After all, the election was certified and Donald Trump Left Office on january 20th. The real conspiracists working to deprive people of their rights are found at the department of justice. And their Press Spokesman include news anchors, reporters, and pundits across the regime media. I think the sum total of their knowledge about law and history seems t
and members of his inner-most circle. we re talking about the slates of fake electors set up in battleground states. they set up as the spark for the rest of the plan as conceived by john eastman. from the very beginning from when the plan was first conceived days after the november election, attorneys for the trump campaign were well aware of the fact that their plan for slates of fake electors was how should we put it fake. the new york times reported on emails from trump lawyers that say this, quote, we would just be sending in fake electoral votes to pence so someone in congress can make an objection when they start counting votes and start arguing that the they need to be counted. he wrote that on december 8, 2020 in an email to boris epshteyn, an advisor for the trump campaign. in a followup email, the same guy, mr. will len chick wrote that alternative votes is probably a better term, a better word than fake votes. he added a smiley face emoji. the plan quickly g
argument that he declassified documents as president. writing in part this, the record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified. but even without evidence, the former president continuing to make this claim. in an inteiew, just last night, the fox news host sean hannity claiming he declassified documents by simply thinking about it. it doesn t have to be a process, as i understand it. you know, there s different people said there are different things but as i understand, there doesn t have to be the president. you re the president of the united states, you can declassify by saying it s declassified, by thinking about, it because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever you re sending it. but the headline here is, really none of that matters, right, as the 11th district writes this, in any event, at least for these purposes, the declassification argument is a red herring because declassifying an official document would not change its content or r
On capitol hill the January 6th Select Committee about to share striking never before seen testimony and evidence all with the Focus On Former President Trump and the central role the panel says he played in the attack on democracy. Welcome to cnns live coverage of the January 6th Hearings. Im anderson cooper. Im jake tapper. This is the final hearing. Committee members are promising to hammer home their urgent argument that donald j. Trump remains in their view a Clear And Present Danger to American Democracy as trump continues to push false claims about the 2020 election. Committee aides tell us the hearing today will zero in on trumps State Of Mind on and around january 6th. Were told well see and hear from Cabinet Officials, and other new witnesses who have recently been interviewed by the committee that could potentially include former Secretary Of State mike pompeo, former treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and elaine chao. Some coming from the Secret Service. They have turned over