If you're seeing sensational takes about the #ProtectiveOrder and the "COMING AFTER YOU" post, here's a thread that's not that
Not gonna screenshot the whole thread of screenshots of filing, but (IANAL) tl;dr seems to be this was a pretty normal filing in a pretty normal protective order process that would happen anyway, and they threw the post in there as an example of his habit of posting (and probably a cheeky way to get it on the record)
A group of New Mexico attorneys has re-filed an ethics complaint with the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of New Mexico asking it to investigate and discipline attorneys Mark J. Caruso and …
I wondered how the Freeman thing was tied to rest of the conspiracy, since Floyd and Kutti didn't seem like core Trump world people, but Act 127 connects them with Robert Cheeley (Trump lawyer) and Scott Hall (involved in coffee county voting machines)
@Pwnallthethings write up has a very helpful who's who
https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/the-georgia-indictment
"Trump supporters post names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors online"
Who could have predicted ? (me, for one https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/110891481232943798)
Also going to hang over trial jurors that they'll be targets for life if they convict
“Trump says, on the advice of his lawyers, his “irrefutable” Georgia election fraud report will be put with a future legal filing, so he’s canceling the news conference he had planned at Bedminster on Monday to unveil it. Allies & attorneys had been uneasy about this event”
Hugo Lowell reports "per ppl familiar, both lawyers and advisers balked — lawyers bc it would cause problems in court, aides bc it was an idea solo pitched to him by a comms person"
Wonder what the "proof" is, some Mike Lindell hallucination?
“New: Trump says Bedminster event to show supposed election fraud in GA is cancelled bc it will be in legal filings. But per ppl familiar, both lawyers and advisers balked — lawyers bc it would cause problems in court, aides bc it was an idea solo pitched to him by a comms person.”
Ryan Goodman points out that Trump's Georgia bail order (https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23921620/23sc188947-consent-order.pdf)
1) Is very specific about potential witness intimidation
2) Is tailored specifically for him, since Eastman's has much more generic language
John Eastman’s a busy guy, with both his state bar hearing in LA and his surrender on his Georgia criminal indictment scheduled this week. Fortunately for him, Judge Roland is accommodating. No hearing tomorrow or Wednesday so he can surrender in Georgia. Back in LA Thursday.
Gotta be a fake posted by some hashtag resistance grifter right? I mean, kinda weird Ben of all people would fall for that but…
nope. It's real.
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1693809658341777668
Incidentally while confirming that post is real, I noticed the first google result that links to truth social is not the home page, it's his profile
Unclear whether intended or merely a side effect of that being by far the most linked page
In other news, Fani Willis ain't havin of any of Jeffery Clark's bullshit
"As inconvenient as modern air travel can admittedly be, whatever nuisance involved in the defendant securing a flight to Atlanta within the window provided is self-evidently insufficient justification to invoke this Court’s authority to enjoin a State felony criminal prosecution"
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23925189-ndga_1_23-cv-03721-scj_8_0
Floyd says he's "already here on federal pretrial supervision" implying his stalled assaulting the FBI case is still unresolved. Also uh "Speaking to the judge without representation" seems like a poor plan but maybe consistent with his response to the FBI agents
10/10 parenthetical
"Trump vows to appeal his [Federal Jan 6] trial date. (It is not appealable) and once against attacked Judge Chutkan"
Chutkan grants them the latter point, though perhaps not in the way they wanted:
"She compared him to a professional athlete facing criminal charges, saying it would be “inappropriate” to schedule a trial around that athlete’s schedule."
“Setting a trial date does not depend and should not depend on the defendant’s personal and professional obligations … Mr. Trump, like any defendant, will have to make the trial date work regardless of his schedule.”
In the Freeman / Moss civil case, Rudy #Giuliani joins Alex Jones in the exclusive club of people who obstructed discovery blatantly enough to lose a defamation suit by default judgement
NYT confirms Sidney Powell's plea surprised team Trump. Also notes that Powell could be a problematic witness (a strong contender for second least reliable in this case after Jones, IMO) and raises but doesn't really answer what the plea means for her status as an unindicted conspirator in Jack Smith's federal 1/6 case
As Klasfeld also notes, there will no longer be a separate early trial:
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1715407442924671388
So, we have Trump's first reaction to Powell flipping, which is apparently… he wants the world to know attorney client privilege and advice of counsel don't apply to anything involving Powell?
(he's presumably free to argue in court that his current public statements are lies) https://themessenger.com/politics/trump-sidney-powell-attorney-plea-deal-georgia-jack-smith
Hugo Lowell takes a look at possible implications of Chesebro's plea in Georgia on the federal case. Still no indication what Smith's team plans to do, but seems very unlikely to be "nothing"
@pbump points out that Chesebro's lawyer claims he *never* believed the election was stolen, which would seem to make his attempts to flip it for Trump even more blatantly criminal than someone like Powell, who perhaps genuinely (if delusionally) believed zombie Hugo Chavez used Italian spy satellites to flip votes https://wapo.st/473v7AS
Donald Trump’s lead attorney in the 2020 Georgia election case against him is using another attorney’s guilty plea to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the racketeering charges brought against all 19 defendants. Trump attorney Steve Sadow says it's the fourth time Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has dismissed the racketeering charge “in return for a plea to probation." Attorney Jenna Ellis pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony over efforts to overturn Trump’s election loss in Georgia. The Florida resident is the fourth defendant in the case to enter into a plea deal with prosecutors. Prosecutors say Ellis helped other lawyers as they lied to Georgia lawmakers.
Reed Mideke
