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Latest: Former national security advisor, General Mike Flynn, pled the 5th Amendment before the January 6th Select Committee of the House on Thursday. Flynn told the investigators he did so on the advice of his counsel. He joins a growing list of plotters to take the Fifth. At one point in the coup, Flynn suggested Herr Trumpillini declare martial law and seize voting machines to allow the would be dictator to oversee the election results, undoubtably resulting in his re-election. That move would have been right out of the Banana Republic playbook. His grotesque suggestion resulted in a confrontation in the Oval with Trump's more sane advisors in December, 2020, also attended by erratic "kraken"attorney, Sidney Powell.
Readers may be destracted by news of the war in Ukraine. PNG is NOT. This week in Trump, the January 6th Committee revealed in court filings, that Trump co-conspirator John Eastman knew the efforts to delay the Electoral College vote count were illegal. In an email exchange with VP Pence's legal counsel, Eastman wrote that even though delaying the count for up to ten days was a violation of the Electoral Count Act, Pence should do it anyway since the Act was not strictly followed by Congress in its deliberations. Pence's lawyer attempted to deflect the guilty knowledge by writing that the President "did not get the memo" on the illegality of the "Green Bay sweep". Even if Trumpillini did get the memo, he would not have cared since his mind set was one of "what do I have to loose". Only democracy, dimwit.
If Eastman knew the effort to delay certification was illegal, who else knew? That is a question to which the Committee wants answers. Giuliani was urging Senator Thomas Tuberville on the same evening of January 6th to block the count of ten states, which would have dragged the proceedings into the next day. The Committee is challenging the claim of attorney-client privilege raised by Eastman to withhold his communication records on the crime or fraud exception. A federal judge who heard the case ruled in favor of the Committee that will begin parsing the hundred or so emails to determine if they are privileged.