Jack Smith keeps flipping witnesses upward, as Donald Trump flips out
Earlier this week Jack Smith “flipped” two people involved in the fake elector plot, by giving them limited immunity and having them testify to the grand jury. One of them was a guy named Gary Michael Brown, who worked for the Trump campaign. Now the New York Times says that Brown’s supervisor, Michael Roman, is also in talks to cooperate and testify. This is how the game works at the very end stage.
Everyone insists they’re not going to cooperate, and maybe they even believe it. But then they come up against the deadline for either cooperating or getting indicted, and some of them always choose to cooperate. This in turn weakens the positions of some of the other people involved, who then decide that they also need to cut a cooperation deal.
Jack Smith reportedly gave everyone involved in the Trump 2020 election plot a deadline of June 30th to fish or cut bait. That’s just five days away. At this point it’s just a matter of the stragglers deciding which side of the fence they want to be on when the gate closes and indictments come down.
Of course this comes even as Alex Jones’ sidekick Owen Shroyer, first charged a year and a half ago, is now cutting a cooperating plea deal of his own. This gives Jack Smith and the DOJ access to his communications with everyone involved in the 2020 election plot. It also places pressure on people like Jones to consider swiftly cutting deals of their own. We’re now just a matter of days before we start finding out who decided to flip, and who decided to get indicted and go down with the ship.
Speaking of going down, Donald Trump appears to have a sense of just how quickly this is all folding in on him. His social media posts keep growing even more frantic than ever, as if he thinks he’s running out of time. This comes even as his House Republican allies are now trying every distraction they can possibly think of – not that such antics are going to have any impact on what’s coming. And it sure looks like it’s coming soon.
Bill Palmer is the publisher of the political news outlet Palmer Report