New court filing appears to give away that the DOJ is criminally targeting Donald Trump
Last week we noted that, after months of various clues surfacing, major media outlets were finally beginning to acknowledge that the Department of Justice may indeed be criminally targeting Donald Trump. After all, the cooperating plea deal cut by Roger Stone’s Oath Keeper driver – on seditious conspiracy no less – gave away that the DOJ is going to end up indicting Stone. And if the DOJ can flip Stone against Trump, that’s the ballgame.
Now additional clues are surfacing. Last week the DOJ made a surprise indictment and arrest of Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, at a time when neither Tarrio nor the public had any idea he was even under criminal investigation. Now the DOJ has made a followup court filing today, and it not only implicates Donald Trump, it quotes him.
When Trump announced to his supporters in December 2020 that he wanted them to show up at the Capitol on January 6th, he said that it would be a “wild” protest. Sure enough, in today’s court filing against Tarrio, the DOJ quoted Trump’s use of the word “wild” from his tweet. Let’s be clear here. The inclusion of this tweet doesn’t serve to further incriminate Tarrio. If anything, it gives him a bit of a ‘Trump made me do it’ excuse. This is notable because prosecutors don’t even just hand a defendant a mitigating excuse for no good reason. There is a specific reason to do this, and it’s because it lays the groundwork for establishing a criminal conspiracy between Tarrio and Trump.
If there are going to be seditious conspiracy (or other criminal conspiracy) charges against Donald Trump, this is how the DOJ will go about laying the groundwork for it. The DOJ has to establish that Trump criminally conspired with the people who organized and led the Capitol attack. This filing against Tarrio does precisely that. There is no reason for the DOJ to have cited Trump’s tweet in this court filing against Tarrio, other than to establish a criminal conspiracy. This is the most clear signal yet that the DOJ appears to be criminally targeting Donald Trump.
