It’s a bad day to be Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, or John Eastman
DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith has already criminally indicted Donald Trump and his co-conspirator Walt Nauta in the Espionage Act probe. Smith is also investigating Trump for his 2020 election crimes, and that probe is expected to cast a much wider net. We’re now starting to see just how wide.
Over the past week various tidbits in the media have suggested that Jack Smith is closing in on the attorneys who helped Trump pretend the 2020 election was stolen. This culminated in the news that Smith had done a proffer interview with Rudy Giuliani, one of the attorneys who fraudulently led that charge.
Now the Wall Street Journal says that Jack Smith’s team spent that interview asking Rudy Giuliani not only about Trump, but also about the other attorneys. That list includes Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, and John Eastman. Some of the names on this list are exactly who we’d have expected.
It now very much appears that most or all of these attorneys will end up criminally indicted for their roles in Trump’s 2020 election plot. It would also be a good guess that one or more ends up flipping on the others. Everyone knows how this works. The first to flip gets the most lenient deal, sometimes even immunity. At that point everyone else is screwed and pretty much has to flip as well, but their testimony is less useful, so they get less leniency. Given that Giuliani is already in there doing a proffer session – a prelude to a cooperating plea deal – the others will at least have to strongly consider trying to hurry up and cut a deal first.
In any case we now have confirmation of a number of Jack Smith’s targets. Of course this only represents one aspect of his investigation. Other reports have pointed to Smith investigating the fake electors for their roles in the 2020 plot, and of course Donald Trump himself. At this point we’re just waiting for plea deals to be announced and/or indictments to happen.
