CNN Exclusive: Special counsel election probe continues with focus on fundraising, voting equipment breaches
CNN Exclusive: Special counsel election probe continues with focus on fundraising, voting equipment breaches
Special counsel Jack Smith is still pursuing his investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election a month after indicting Donald Trump for orchestrating a broad conspiracy to remain in power, a widening of the probe that raises the possibility others could still face legal peril.
Special counsel Jack Smith is still pursuing his investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election a month after indicting Donald Trump for orchestrating a broad conspiracy to remain in power, a widening of the probe that raises the possibility others could still face legal peril.
Questions asked of two recent witnesses indicate Smith is focusing on how money raised off baseless claims of voter fraud was used to fund attempts to breach voting equipment in several states won by Joe Biden, according to multiple sources familiar with the ongoing investigation. In both interviews, prosecutors have focused their questions on the role of **former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell. **
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New details about Smith’s ongoing investigation indicate federal prosecutors are scrutinizing a series of voting breaches following the 2020 election that state investigators have been probing for more than a year.
Jack Smith is who I wanted Robert Mueller to be
While limited, the Mueller report was damning. Among other things, it concluded that the former president could not be exonerated and had likely committed indictable acts, but he could not be charged under current Justice Dept. policy. All the stopped indictments was Justice Department policy.
Just got two problems:
- People had to read.
- It was written in 200ish pages legalese.
But yes, it would have been nice if Mueller didn't feel he had to put himself (and the investigation) under a figurative rock somewhere in Antarctica.
For the potentially indictable acts in the Mueller report, what's the statute of limitations, if any? What's stopping the justice department from pursuing the charges now?
I hope so. After all my disappointments I'm still worried that Smith may just turn out to be another sheep in wolf's clothing.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Special counsel Jack Smith is still pursuing his investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election a month after indicting Donald Trump for orchestrating a broad conspiracy to remain in power, a widening of the probe that raises the possibility others could still face legal peril.
Questions asked of two recent witnesses indicate Smith is focusing on how money raised off baseless claims of voter fraud was used to fund attempts to breach voting equipment in several states won by Joe Biden, according to multiple sources familiar with the ongoing investigation.
According to sources, witnesses interviewed by Smith’s prosecutors in recent weeks were asked about Powell’s role in the hunt for evidence of voter fraud after the 2020 election, including how her nonprofit group, Defending the Republic, provided money to fund those efforts.
But according to documents reviewed by CNN and witness testimony obtained by the House select committee that investigated January, 6, 2021, the group was used to fund a desperate search to retroactively back-up baseless claims that Trump’s lawyers had already put forward in failed lawsuits challenging the results in several states.
A series of invoices and communications obtained by election integrity groups including The Coalition for Good Governance and American Oversight show Defending the Republic contributed millions of dollars toward the push to access voting equipment in key states.
Lambert has also been identified by CNN as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Georgia indictment, which alleges she worked with Powell to secure voting system data that was copied from Coffee County and was tasked with helping collect invoices from the forensics firm hired through Defending the Republic.
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2 things that are not to be fucked with:
- Wu-Tang Clan
- Jack Smith