Agree. I do feel like they are inching closer and closer to DJT though. I read someone somewhere saying that if he TRULY BELIEVED there were material irregularities in the vote, that would make it harder to charge malicious intent. Sounds like Trump's ignorant, delusional view of reality could be a hedge against criminality? That sounds pretty ludicrous.seacoaster wrote: ↑Fri Mar 04, 2022 10:39 amThere is a big difference, it should be emphasized, between, on the one hand, setting aside the privilege based on the crime-fraud exception and, on the other hand, having the evidence necessary to authorize a prosecution of anyone, to say nothing of a former President. So there is some perhaps considerable distance to travel between what the January 6 Committee's briefing on the Eastman privilege claim and the indictment of the Leader of the GOP.dislaxxic wrote: ↑Fri Mar 04, 2022 10:01 am John Eastman may be the tip of Trump's J6 spear
Greg Jacob, Mike Pence's counsel, writes to Eastman while the siege is going on, and while Eastman is still insisting that the Electoral College Act can be end-runned, as follows:
Quote from Greg Jacob (Pence attorney) to Eastman (the guy trying to claim executive privilege before the J6 Committee) ON January 6th.I respect your heart here. I share your concerns about what Democrats will do once in power. I want election integrity fixed. But I have run down every legal trail placed before me to its conclusion, and I respectfully conclude that as a legal framework, it is a results oriented position that you would never support if attempted by the opposition, and essentially entirely made up.
And thanks to your bullchit, we are now under siege.
Except for those pesky "crime-fraud exceptions" to the claims of executive privilege...very likely-looking that Eastman's claims will be denied.
We've been watching Trump skate from accountability for YEARS. Could it be that we might see an actual indictment of Donald Trump sometime in 2022?
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See Marcy's further analysis:
THE ERROR THAT BETRAYS INSUFFICIENT ATTENTION TO THE OBSTRUCTION STANDARD IN THE JANUARY 6 EASTMAN FILING
Good news is: even if the R's manage to brainwash the electorate into giving them back the House, DoJ seems to have PLENTY to carry on after the election without a J6 group...
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