the government tried nine oath keepers with seditious conspiracies. six of them were found guilty of it. all nine of them were found guilty of at least one other charge. the same charge brought against the qanon shaman. and by the, way hundreds of other jerry sixth defendants. it s actually one of the most common charges that the department of justice brought against january 6th insurrectionists overall. again, statute is technically titled tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant. the qanon shaman, and all of those hundreds of other january 6th defendants, they weren t actually being accused of witness tampering. we re charged with a particular section of the statute, corruptly obstructing an official proceeding. basically getting into the way of congress as it set out the 24 by staging an insurrection. okay. all of this is relevant because today, the three federal statutes listed in the target letter that special counsel jack smith sent to former president trump,
section is, judge cannon got through the entire thing without saying a single crazy thing. not one crazy thing at all, unlike the way she handled this case last year, when this evidence was first brought to her. well, i think a lot of influences are going to be made by that. and i cannot wait to see what you guys get through in the course of the next 5 to 10 minutes, once you scan that meaty transcript, lawrence. i eagerly await your analysis. thanks, alex. bank. you have a great show. thank you. it was another terrible day for defended trump including the revelation today of the specific charges mentioned in the special prosecutor jack smith s met letter to donald trump on sunday telling him that he is a target in jack smith s criminal investigation of events leading up to end on january 6th, attempting to overthrow the presidential election. donald trump had a very bad day in two different courts in new york city today in refusing to ultra quest for a new trial in t
version of what donald trump has been saying on the campaign trail about the presidential records act. and how this place is really about the presidential records act. and it is fascinating to read a lawyer trying to say that, didn t make any sense to me. but we will have experts here who are going to translate that part of it. and, then alex maybe the big surprise, or the thing that everyone was really waiting to study in that section is, judge cannon got through the entire thing without saying a single crazy thing. not one crazy thing at all, unlike the way she handled this case last year, when this evidence was first brought to her. well, i think a lot of influences are going to be made by that. and i cannot wait to see what you guys get through in the course of the next 5 to 10 minutes, once you scan that meaty transcript, lawrence. i eagerly await your analysis. thanks, alex. bank. you have a great show. thank you. it was another terrible day for defended trump
of it. all nine of them were found guilty of at least one other charge. the same charge brought against the qanon shaman. and by the, way hundreds of other jerry sixth defendants. it s actually one of the most common charges that the department of justice brought against january 6th insurrectionists overall. again, statute is technically titled tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant. the qanon shaman, and all of those hundreds of other january 6th defendants, they weren t actually being accused of witness tampering. we re charged with a particular section of the statute, corruptly obstructing an official proceeding. basically getting into the way of congress as it set out the 24 by staging an insurrection. okay. all of this is relevant because today, the three federal statutes listed in the target letter that special counsel jack smith sent to former president trump, those statutes were described to nbc news by two attorneys with direct knowledge of the document.