As investigations relying on the witness testimony of Michael Cohen and Evan Corcoran converge this week, it’s a reminder that for at least seven years, Trump’s lawyers have exposed themselves legally in assistance of Trump’s cover-ups.
Something else is going on — on top of the news that FBI claims 2,400 CSAM files were found on Josh Schulte’s discovery laptop.
Donald Trump demonstrably played a shell game in advance of Evan Corcoran’s search for classified documents last summer. DOJ’s effort to get his crime-fraud excepted testimony may help to understand all the other shell games Trump has played with subpoena responses.
Among the things that then-Chief Judge Beryl Howell ordered Evan Corcoran to turn over on Friday were “transcriptions of personal audio recordings” involving his representation of Donald Trump. Lordy, there are [transcribed] tapes!
In the investigation of the Ashley Biden diary theft, Barbara Jones has ruled against Project Veritas on most issues.
It has now taken longer to hold Trump accountable than it took to get Richard Nixon to resign after the Watergate break-in. Even assuming those were comparable timelines, a number of things distinguish the January 6 investigation from the far less complex Watergate one, starting with the fact that, unlike Nixon, Trump is not known to have wiretapped himself.
Trump has once again expertly played journalists to get them to serve as data mules disseminating his tweet inciting violence in response to his expected indictment in New York.
Back in 2017, KT McFarland rationalized Mike Flynn’s efforts to undermine US foreign policy to Nixon’s Chennault Affair and Reagan’s Iran October Surprise. NYT just confirmed that John Connally is the one who helped Reagan get elected by encouraging Iran to hold Americans hostage.
The biggest secret that Beryl Howell brings with her, as she ends her tenure as Chief Judge of DC, is whether the closure of the investigation into a suspected $10 million donation from Egypt to Trump in September 2016 was political interference from Bill Barr or a legitimate investigative dead end.
Evan Corcoran is likely at least the fourth Trump lawyer to have his comms crime-fraud excepted in the last five years. The first known such instance, the recording of Trump agreeing to make hush payments in 2016, may lead to an indictment as early as next week.
