Don Lemon and Georgia Fort have been fighting to get grand jury transcripts for four months, since February 13. They asked to accelerate briefing on the topic more than three months ago, on March 3. Starting more than two months ago, on April 10, their co-defendants commenced their own effort to get grand jury transcripts.
In one (March 27) after another (May 1) filing, the government argued that false claims in public comments about the case from people like Trump and Harmeet Dhillon might not reflect what prosecutors presented to the grand jury, and besides, in the Eighth Circuit, prosecutors don’t have to instruct grand jurors on what the law actually is.
Then, on June 1, Georgia Fort filed a separate motion (with attached letter, dated May 26) — not joined by Lemon, but instead joined by a different defendant, Michael Beute — for Brady discovery and grand jury transcripts, citing several claims HSI Agent Timothy Gerber made seeking search warrants for her YouTube account; I wrote about some dumbass things did in those affidavits here, but not the false claims Fort laid out.
The first docket entry after Fort’s request, docket 530, appears to be sealed. That same day as Fort’s second grand jury request, June 1, docket 531, DOJ asked for permission to share the grand jury transcript of a witness — but definitely not the other grand jury materials for which defendants were asking, explaining, “the testimony of a percipient victim-witness has its own significance that...
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