Are these the cooperating witnesses in the DOJ’s grand jury against Trump world?
At this point the known timeline is fairly clear. Merrick Garland took over the DOJ, spent less than ten months investigating and flipping enough Capitol attackers to take down the entire Oath Keepers leadership, managed to flip at least one of the Oath Keepers leaders against Trump world, and then less than two weeks later launched a grand jury targeting Trump world.
Roger Stone’s Oath Keeper driver’s cooperating plea deal is the single biggest piece of news to come out of the DOJ’s January 6th probe, and the single biggest indicator that the DOJ intends to indict Trump. After all, the DOJ takes down the biggest of fish by lining up enough cooperating witnesses that no jury would ever acquit. The question is who else might be cooperating with the DOJ in its criminal probe into Trump world.
This past weekend, Chris Anderson of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported that Steve Bannon’s co-conspirators in the “Build the wall” scam have all agreed to plead guilty. It’s not yet clear if these are cooperating plea deals, or merely guilty pleas in exchange for leniency. But the timing is interesting.
After getting busted all the way back in 2020, these three Bannon co-conspirators have each decided to plead guilty over the past two months. This lines up precisely with the reported timeframe for the DOJ’s grand jury into Trump world, which was launched two months ago. You have to wonder if the DOJ offered these three guys lenient deals in order to get them to flip on Bannon, at a time when the DOJ is clearly making a run at Trump world figures such as Bannon.
If the DOJ is going to prosecute Donald Trump, it’ll want his closest underlings like Stone and Bannon testifying against him. Over the past two months the DOJ has launched a grand jury targeting Trump world, cut a seditious conspiracy cooperating plea deal with Stone’s driver, and cut plea deals with three of Bannon’s criminal associates. It sure does look like the DOJ is looking to force Trump’s top henchmen to flip on him.
