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Sidney Powell’s Plea Deal Should Have Fox’s Maria Bartiromo ‘Looking Over Her Shoulder’

The plea deal made with Georgia prosecutors Thursday by former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell could wind up having major legal implications for others who played a role in the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Among those who are now vulnerable, according to Marshall Cohen of CNN, is Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo.

Powell had numerous contacts with other people in Trump’s orbit and could now be required to turn over evidence against them. Her guilty plea also implicates the group of Republicans who breached Coffee County’s voting systems in early 2021. Another member of that alleged scheme, bail bondsman Scott Hall, has already pleaded guilty.

She was also in touch with prominent right-wing media figures, including former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and current Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo. All three of them are facing defamation lawsuits from voting technology companies, and Powell’s admissions in the criminal cases could strengthen the defamation allegations.

Fox has already had to pay a massive settlement of $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems, and now Bartiromo could also be on the hook for millions in addition to possibly losing her job for featuring Powell and other members of the Trump team as part of her show.

Powell’s plea deal is also a problem for failed former president when it comes to the federal case filed against him by Special Counsel Jack Smith, Cohen notes.

Just think of it: Trump, Bartiromo, and Tucker Carlson finally having to pay a price for their lies. That would be some incredibly sweet karma.

 

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Crime Elections GOP Justice Department

Jack Smith Looking At Recordings Of Ted Cruz Discussing How To Overturn The 2020 Election

Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith is about to have some important new evidence as he continues to investigate the plot to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

According to CNN, Smith is interested in tapes of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) conspiring to help former president Donald Trump illegally remain in office.


Special Counsel Jack Smith has expressed interest in audio tapes recorded by former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg while she worked at the right-wing network, her lawyer said.

Grossberg attorney Gerry Filippatos told CNN on Wednesday that he has given a spreadsheet to the special counsel’s team, detailing the nearly 90 audiotapes in Grossberg’s possession. Talks are underway for a subpoena, so Grossberg can turn over the material to Smith’s team of federal prosecutors, who are investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election.

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In a related development, MSNBC on Tuesday aired a new snippet of one of Grossberg’s tapes. The previously undisclosed audio featured Republican Sen. Ted Cruz talking with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo about his plans to delay Congress’ certification of Joe Biden’s victory on January 6, 2021.

In the taped conversation with Bartiromo, Cruz outlines a plan for delaying the certification by establishing a “commission” to further investigate claims of voter fraud. The Texas senator had proposed a commission in a press release on the same day as the audio recording.

That could wind up resulting in Smith charging Cruz with multiple felonies for conspiring to keep Trump in office, even after it was clear that Joe Biden was the clear victor in both the popular and electoral vote.

In the tape Smith has obtained, Cruz can be heard telling Bartiromo, “As we were looking at this January 6 certification, all of the options that were being discussed were problematic. And so I wanted to find a path that was consistent with the Constitution and the law and that address these very real serious claims.”

According to Cruz, what he said on the tape is no big deal, posting on Twitter:

“This @msnbc [clown] is breathlessly reporting that I ‘secretly’ said in a phone call … the EXACT same thing I said on national television the next morning! And then said again on the Senate floor four days later.”

 

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Revealing Report Links Key Republicans To The 2020 Election Conspiracy

Despite the indictment of failed former president Donald Trump and some of his key alleged co-conspirators in the 2020 plot to overturn the results of the 2020 election, members of Congress who participated in the crime have gone uncharged and unscathed, which some have suggested needs to change.

Thanks to the New York Times and Former ethics czar Norm Eisen, we now know the names of those who are alleged to have actively participated on the attempted overthrow of the U.S. government as elected by the people.

Using a map that shows the many connections between Trump, the White House, and members of the GOP, Eisen and the Times have now given s a roadmap which the Justice Department would be wise to follow.

Among those listed as an “enabler” is Republican National Committee chair Ronna Romney McDaniel, with legal analyst Ryan Goodman noting, “I think the most damning (evidence) comes under the heading of the scheme to set up these false slate of electors, individuals from the GOP who would have been the electors if Trump had won those states, to certify that he had in fact won states that Biden had clearly won.”

“That seems to just be a federal crime that is a very, very active part of the current special counsel’s investigation. New evidence, brand new that we have not seen before that directs it right at Trump and Mark Meadows.”

And then we have the Republican lawmakers, all of who are listed by Eisen: Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), as well as Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO).

“Congressional cowards (looking at you Ted Cruz and Josh ‘First Salute’ Hawley!) gave comfort to the insurrectionists, and some voted against certifying Joe Biden’s victory — even after the sacking of the Capitol,” Eisen explains.

Amazingly, none of the Republicans in the House and Senate who played a role in the 2020 conspiracy have yet been indicted for their role in what is clearly considered to be a crime under both federal and state laws. Will that ever change, or will some of the guilty parties be allowed to walk away unscathed and remain a part of the government? If they are, what’s to stop them from trying again and perhaps succeeding the next time?

 

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Crime Donald Trump Elections GOP January 6

‘Second Wave’ Of Indictments Coming From Jack Smith In Washington, DC: Report

More criminal indictments are on the way from Special Counsel Jack Smith, according to a former federal prosecutor, and they’ll likely be filed in Washington, D.C., where former president Donald Trump and others are already facing charges for attempting to overturn the 2020 election.

Glenn Kirschner, who worked as a federal prosecutor for several years, told MSNBC host Katie Phang Sunday that he believes many of the unindicted co-conspirators named in a grand jury report from Georgia released on Friday are likely to find themselves under indictment by the special counsel.

“Here’s the outlier, Katie. These people, who were named for indictment, but we haven’t seen them show up in an indictment yet, they could be indicted in the future”

Kirschner added:

“Think about the Jack Smith’s indictment that was handed down in Washington, D.C. There are six pretty important, unnamed, but pretty well-identified co-conspirators in that case. And I have every expectation that we will see a second wave of indictments in Washington, D.C. of those, thus far, unindicted co-conspirators.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38IU9oeDHus

Among those named in the Georgia grand jury report were former Republican senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue of Georgia and current Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, all of whom may wind up in federal court very soon if indeed Jack Smith decides they deserve to pay the price for their role in the 2020 election conspiracy.

 

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Crime Elections GOP

Lindsey Graham Likely To Be Charged By DOJ For His Role In 2020 Election Crimes: Legal Expert

Even though he managed to dodge a bullet from Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is still not in the clear legally and is likely to face criminal charges from the Justice Department, according to a former U.S. attorney.

A grand jury in the Peach State recommended that Graham and two other former GOP senators — Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue — be indicted, but the DA filed no charges against them.

Graham should still be worried, Barbara McQuade, former U.S. Attorney for Michigan noted Saturday morning on MSNBC’s “The Katie Phang Show.”

Phang speculated that Graham may still be forced to testify at the Georgia racketeering trials of Trump and 18 other co-defendants, and that led McQuade to remark, “He may want to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.”

“The fact that this special grand jury recommended that he be indicted, it does indicate that he has some criminal exposure here,” McQuade added. “So it could be that his lawyer requests immunity for him to testify. If that is not received, then he may refuse to testify and then, when you’ve got these two different cases pending, the federal, case and state case, you have to worry about, even if Fani Willis isn’t going to charge you there’s a possibility he’d be charged federally.”

“And so, because of that exposure, it may be some of these witnesses demand immunity before they agreed to testify and waived their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. So in other words, they may not all be done yet.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqWh-cVjekQ

Lindsey had better hope he has one hell of a good attorney. Chances are things are going to get much worse for him before they get better.