Mike Pence chief of staff testifies to DOJ grand jury – time for Donald Trump to panic

| 5:10 pm EDT July 25, 2022
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When the DOJ carried out grand jury search and seizure warrants weeks ago against Donald Trump’s top January 6th co-conspirators John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark, it made it pretty clear that the DOJ had indeed been investigating Trump for awhile, and was trying to use Eastman and Clark to get to him. Now it’s become a whole lot more clear.

The DOJ has had Mike Pence’s vice presidential chief of staff Marc Short testify to a grand jury in relation to January 6th, according to ABC News. It’s not being reported who’s being testified against. But given that Short is the witness, it’s not difficult to figure out that Trump, Eastman, Clark, and Mark Meadows (if he hasn’t flipped) are in the proverbial crosshairs.

Given this new reporting, here’s our educated best guess about what’s going on and what happens next: the DOJ is using the Marc Short testimony to indict Eastman and Clark, in an attempt at flipping them against Trump.

We’ll see what happens next. But this bombshell news should finally put to rest the ridiculous notion that the DOJ isn’t investigating Trump; it clearly is investigating him. Moreover, this isn’t something new that the DOJ is belatedly throwing together in the face of public pressure. The Short testimony is a continuation of the seizure warrants against Eastman and Clark. And just to obtain those warrants to begin with, the DOJ would have needed to already have strong evidence against them in hand. It’s clear that not only is the DOJ investigating Trump, it has been for quite awhile, and it’s now pretty far down that road.