Donald Trump’s greatest criminal vulnerability has always been in Georgia. That’s where prosecutors are investigating the defeated former president for pressuring Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (on tape!) to “find” just enough votes to swing the state to him and for intimating that the Georgia official might face criminal peril if he refused.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Tuesday that a Fulton County, Ga., grand jury issued subpoenas for Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani as well as “John Eastman, Cleta Mitchell, Kenneth Chesebro and Jenna Ellis, all of whom advised the Trump campaign on strategies for overturning Democrat Joe Biden’s wins in Georgia and other swing states.” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who allegedly made his own inquiries to Georgia officials, and podcast host Jacki Pick Deason also received subpoenas.
Norman Eisen, who served as special counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during Trump’s first impeachment, tells me that this “rogues’ gallery” of lawyers may provide yet unheard critical evidence. He notes that Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney leading the investigation, seems to have “completed the in-state portion of her special grand jury investigation" and may now be moving “to take evidence from those outside of Georgia who may have participated in the alleged conspiracy targeting Georgia voters and electors.” She appears to be moving ahead of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021,...
WASHINGTON (TNND) — FBI Director Kash Patel clashed with a Democratic lawmaker Tuesday during a Senate subcommittee budget hearing, forcefully denying allegations that he drinks excessively on the...