What will the charges be?

Created
Wed, 19/07/2023 - 03:30
Updated
Wed, 19/07/2023 - 03:30
If you want to understand what Trump might be charged with I recommend reading Just Security’s possible prosecution memo. We don’t know at this moment what Trump might be facing but we do know that he’s facing indictment in the January 6th case now that he’s received a target letter. This tweet thread from Norm Eisen, one of the authors, offers a succinct summary: The memo is unique bc ours is the first in-depth application of the relevant criminal law to the facts, building on the more concise criminal referrals the committee offered in its report We look at that report w/ skeptical eyes as prosecutors do  We narrow the case to what can confidently be proven to a jury, and for the first time anywhere we consider at length, and of course in good faith, Trump’s defenses and how they will fare We can do that because of our all-star coauthors @NoahBookbinder, @DonaldAyer6, @StantonLaw, @EDanyaPerry, @DebraPerlin and Kayvan Farchadi, and our amazing editor @RGoodlaw. (4/x) Moreover, we can now assess prosecution because the public record has grown a great deal since the Select Committee report’s publication in December 2022, and we update it with the information released after the report We consider the depositions & documents that the Committee itself released after the report came out, as well as a substantial amount of other reported new evidence & as @JRubinBlogger noted in her write-up: the key is simplicity! OK now for those three (relatively) simple acts ACT ONE. Trump…