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Update: Defendant Trump entered a plea of not guilty to federal felony charges related to his coup attempt. The magistrate required him to stand and enter a plea in his own voice, unlike in Miami federal court. The magistrate suggested three dates for the next court hearing. The parties decided on August 28th, indicating a rapid docket in this historic criminal case.
More:Individual Five of the indictment appears to be Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney involved in the interstate fake elector scheme. Individual Sixth's identity was uncertain, appearing to be either Roger Stone or Boris Epshteyn, both political consultants who helped implement the fake elector deception. The New York Times later identified the 6th co-conspirator as Boris Epshteyn based on a match between the description in the indictment and e-mails in the public domain. In one Epshteyn identified attorneys in swing states who could be trusted to aid the fake elector plot in response to Rudy Giuliani's inquiry. Epshteyn is currently working for Don 'Legit' as a top advisor to his legal defense.
Breaking: That's how Special Prosecutor Jack Smith described the events of January 6th. Don 'Legit' Trumpilini has been charged with four federal felonies including a seldom used civil rights crime. He has was charged with conspiracy to obstruct an official proceedings, conspiracy to defraud the government, attempted obstruction and obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to deny civil rights*. The indictment also refers to six co-conspirators, not named, A close reading of the indictments allows knowledgeable observers to surmise they are: Rudy Giuliani, Sydney Powell, John Eastman, Jeffery Clark and two others. Former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is conspicuous by his absence from the indictment, whether that is an indication that he is a cooperating witness remains to be seen. The unnamed co-conspirators may be charged later in order to keep the trial of the coup leader from being delayed. Trump is expected to be arraigned Thursday in Washington, DC. Stay tuned as history is made.
*18 USC Sec. 241. Sometimes known as the "Ku Klux Klan Act" the provision has its origins in Reconstruction after the Civil War when night riders cloaked in bedsheets conspired to deprive newly enfranchised black voters of their suffrage.. President Grant used the Act and federal troops to suppress the Klan in the defeated Confederacy. His campaign was largely successful, bu the Klan reemerged at the turn of the last century to again become a feared and influential force in southern politics. That the defendant Trump is charged with this crime somehow fits from a historic perspective.