MEDIA HITS
HARRY JOINS MSNBC TO DISCUSS THE JANUARY 6 HEARINGS AND TRUMP’S 187 MINUTES OF INACTION
JULY 18, 2022
COLUMN: THERE IS A GAP IN THE EVIDENCE WE’VE SEEN AGAINST TRUMP. WE HAVE TO RELY ON THE DOJ TO FILL IT
JULY 20, 2022
Harry's Hits: Week of July 10, 2022
MEDIA HITS
HARRY JOINS MSNBC TO DISCUSS STEVE BANNON AND MARK MEADOWS’ JANUARY 6 TRIALS
JULY 17, 2022
TOP TWEETS THIS WEEK
Remember how Bannon swaggered when he was indicted and promised to make this the “misdemeanor from hell” for the DOJ. Now that he has to face the music imminently, he’s not looking so swashbuckling.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) July 11, 2022
After Bannon is convicted at his trial that begins next week, there will be plenty of time for him to testify before the J6 committee, as apparently both he and Trump want him to do. And in the meantime, he can certainly turn over the documents.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) July 11, 2022
Meadows either breathtakingly incompetent, or criminal, or both.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) July 12, 2022
Wow -- Trump tried to call a witness last week. What an arrogant idiot.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) July 12, 2022
Secret service now on record that none of the texts the OIG was seeking were lost in the migration. Better hope that’s accurate— Won’t be able to walk it back easily if it’s wrong.Looking forward to discussing on @AliciaOnMSNBC w/ guest host @KatiePhang & @MalcolmNance at 7 pm ET
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) July 16, 2022
Fulton County subpoenas require testimony on July 12 (tomorrow), so look for a flurry of objections and probably lousy arguments to be filed in the next day by the 7 witnesses, which include Graham, Giuliani, and Eastman.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) July 11, 2022
The hearing is basically teaching us the culture of the alt-right that is foreign to us and in fact hard to believe. But it's deadly serious and the former president had the power -- in a sense it was his core power -- to call them into action.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) July 12, 2022
Brad Parscale: " A sitting President asking for civil war"
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) July 12, 2022
why now you might say?
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) July 15, 2022
Roger Stone and his wife have agreed to owing more than $2 million to the IRS to settle a suit alleging the associate of former President Donald Trump hid income from the U.S., they told a Florida federal court Friday
There's a certain satisfaction is seeing Bannon, who likes to pretend he's a swashbuckling pirate, reduced to a meek supplicant before the prospect of jail and the crucible of the Court. And there will be more as he tries to smuggle in BS defenses at trial. Ever thus w/ rogues.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) July 17, 2022
Harry's Hits: Week of July 3, 2022
MEDIA HITS
HARRY APPEARS ON THE LAST WORD TO DISCUSS CIPOLLONE’S JAN. 6 COMMITTEE TESTIMONY
JULY 8 2022
TOP TWEETS THIS WEEK
You can be sure that before Cipillone agreed to the videotaped depo, he broadly consulted other Washington establishment R types, inc Barr, who told him that especially after the Hutchinson testimony, he needed to make a better effort at cooperation.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) July 9, 2022
Count me as a skeptic that Steve Bannon will testify to the J6C. He'll insist on ground rules that they'd be crazy to permit, and they're not crazy. And of course it's a ploy from his standpoint to help him in his trial, scheduled to being in a week.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) July 10, 2022
Judging from her staunch defense of Hutchinson against the phony-baloney critiques, and her having resigned the evening of January 6, former deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews likely to be a very strong witness against Trump next week.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) July 9, 2022
Harry's Hits: Week of June 26, 2022
MEDIA HITS
LA TIMES: A TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD SUPREME COURT DECISION
JUNE 26, 2022
TOP TWEETS THIS WEEK
yes all kinds of criminal behavior, but quite apart from that the former President of the United States is such a deeply deeply sick man.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 28, 2022
Secret Svc says the agent in the car when Trump supposedly lurched for the wheel will talk to the committee. Hutchinson atty says rightly it should be under oath.But the real person who sh testify is Ornato, who made the statement. Prediction: he’s an arch-loyalist and won’t show
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 29, 2022
an unmitigated disaster of a Supreme Court Term. and only 25 or so more to go...
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 30, 2022
According to prosecutors, Stewart Rhodes, lead Oath Keeper charged w/ seditious conspiracy, is having his legal bills paid from a fund run and furnished by ...............Sidney Powell.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) July 1, 2022
And one more critical detail of Hutchinson’s testimony that shouldn’t be lost in the cannon blasts: Meadows planned to go to the war room January 5. Tangible indication of connection to the Flynn Stone axis that is a possible bridge conspiracy between terrorists and White House.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) July 3, 2022
The dispute about whether Trump grabbed the wheel or not is a side show. In any event it does nothing to undermine Hutchinson‘s credibility. The person who needs to testify about it is the man she sent me the statement, Ornato. And he should be testifying anyway after yesterday.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 29, 2022
A small but important detail that shouldn’t get lost in the tsunami of revelations. Cipollone has to go to Hutchinson to plead with her to tell Meadows not to let Trump to the capital because Meadow’s not responding to him.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 30, 2022
A few points on the potential witness tampering charge against Meadows: 1) it is not a small matter; DOJ in particular takes it very seriously and it fires them up; 2) it is in fact the same statute -- §1512--as the potential lead charge of delaying the Jan 6 hearing;
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) July 1, 2022
After what she achieved this week, and has come to represent, Liz. Cheney’s treatment at the hands of Kevin McCarthy is truly scandalous. It would be sweet justice if the J6 committees work winds up exposing McCarthys derelictions and keeping him from becoming speaker.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) July 1, 2022
Harry's Hits: Week of June 19, 2022
MEDIA HITS
THE DAILY JOURNAL: IT’S THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO NEED TO REPUDIATE THE ‘BIG LIE’
JUNE 18, 2022
HARRY APPEARS ON MSNBC TO DISCUSS THE COMMITTEE ASKING GINNI THOMAS TO TESTIFY
JUNE 18, 2022
HARRY JOINS NICOLLE WALLACE ON DEADLINE WHITE HOUSE TO DISCUSS A JUDGE DENYING AN ATTEMPT BY FOX CORPORATION TO DISMISS A $1.6 BILLION DEFAMATION LAWSUIT FROM DOMINION
JUNE 22, 2022
RAWSTORY: TRUMP ACCUSED OF ‘REVVING’ UP THE JAN 6TH CROWD INTO A ‘MURDEROUS RAGE’ BY FORMER DOJ OFFICIAL
JUNE 18, 2022
RAWSTORY: FORMER PROSECUTOR CITES CLUES THAT COULD UNCOVER PROOF OF DONALD TRUMP’S SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY
JUNE 20, 2022
HARRY APPEARS ON CBS NEWS TO WEIGH IN ON JAN. 6 HEARINGS
JUNE 23, 2022
HARRY DISCUSSES THE SUPREME COURT RULING ON THE NEW YORK STATE GUN LAW
JUNE 23, 2022
HARRY JOINS ANDREA MITCHELL ON MSNBC TO DISCUSS THE OVERTURNING OF ROE V. WADE BY THE SUPREME COURT
JUNE 26, 2022
RAWSTORY: TRUMP IN ‘UNCENSORED’ DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE WILL UNVEIL ‘A LOT OF LITTLE TREASURES’: EX-JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL
JUNE 25, 2022
TOP TWEETS THIS WEEK
How will the Court, highly solicitous of free exercise rights, handle this one? Fla synagogue challenges abortion law, which lacks excep for rape and incest, as viol’nof Jewish law, which requires abortion “if necc to woman’s to protect the health, mental or physical well-being”
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 20, 2022
Hearing starts tomorrow at 1 PM ET. Supreme court issues opinions at 10 AM. If it issues one of the big remaining ones-& the odds grow stronger with each passing issuance day-the committee will hope that the first wave of news will have passed. In any event, fasten your seatbelts
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 21, 2022
Again, notice that Schiff is not using notes. He is a very gifted prosecutor.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 21, 2022
Meadows involved with Giuliani in Nov attempts to change electors in Arizona. Meadows's fingerprints basically everywhere.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 21, 2022
Trump lawsuit alleged 10,400 dead people voted in Georgia. Actual number: 4.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 21, 2022
A large part of this hearing was just illustrating the general thuggery of the Trump criminal syndicate. Lying, tough-talking, knee-breaking, sociopathic jerks. Back to @juliettekayyem : he is a loser with a capital L.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 21, 2022
Getting far ahead of myself, but Eastman is made to order to cooperate against Meadows and possibly Trump
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 23, 2022
DOJ also has searched home of Brad Carver, a Georgia lawyer who allegedly signed a counterfeit doc claiming to be a Trump elector.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 23, 2022
If you haven't been in the DOJ, might be hard to imagine how outrageous it is that Clark went to the White House on 12/22/20, with Scott Perry, without notifying the AG and DAG. It is an instant firing offense. It is completely beyond the pale.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 23, 2022
You can bet there is serious freaking out w/in the ranks of Republican Congressmen, who have been conspicuously silent these last few weeks, in particular whoever among them broached the idea of getting a pardon.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 23, 2022
Jeff Clark and John Eastman have this week become very dangerous figures for Mark Meadows and Donald Trump. They have the information and the motivation: Trump played them both for ambitious stooges.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 24, 2022
Harsh but irrefutable words from the dissent that go straight to core: decision "based on nothing more than the new views of new judges.The majority has overruled Roe & Casey for 1 and only 1 reason: because it has always despised them, and now it has the votes to discard them."
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 24, 2022
Justices Kavanaugh and Alito might try to reassure us that other rights are not on the chopping block and Justice Thomas might Insist they are. But it’s not really up to them. The trigger will be state legislatures that pass draconian laws that harm people who then sue.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 26, 2022
Hearing starts tomorrow at 1 PM ET. Supreme court issues opinions at 10 AM. If it issues one of the big remaining ones-& the odds grow stronger with each passing issuance day-the committee will hope that the first wave of news will have passed. In any event, fasten your seatbelts
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 21, 2022
Breyer: “Court has never previously held what the Court holds today, namely, that a State must (not may) use state funds to pay for religious education as part of a tuition program designed to ensure the provision of free statewide public education."
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 21, 2022
Pence got high marks for eventually not violating the Constitution but he prevaricated all along and since has been mealy. Compare this guy-Bowers-just straightforward strong, I took an oath to the Constitution, full stop.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 21, 2022
Meadows called Raffensberger's office 18 -- that's 18 -- times to set up the notorious Trump call.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 21, 2022
Yes -- Cheney singles out Meadows. He knows more than anyone and is more deeply involved than anyone.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 21, 2022
Yesterday’s hearing put on naked display the despicable human qualities of Trump. Looking forward to discussing on @Morning_Joe coming up right now!
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 22, 2022
Trump: Just "Say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me." one of top 10 quotes for the whole investigation
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 23, 2022
Lawdy lawdy there are notes- of Trump's talk with Donoghue. including "just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen." Donoghue: this is an exact quote.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 23, 2022
The meeting in the first place w/ Clark and Perry with Trump was a rank violation of clear DOJ policy. In every way, Clark was sneaking around and increasingly emboldened by Trump's support and the heady prospect of being named the AG.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 23, 2022
5 members asked for pardons: what do the Republican leadership do w/ this: Gomert, Brooks, Perry, Gaetz, Greene.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 23, 2022
wow
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WTF? Jeff Clark went on Fox/Tucker Carlson today. That is a textbook inane move for someone who just had a search warrant served on him. And who has been taking the 5th. He calls service of search warrant"Stasi like." A self-respecting attorney would resign the representation.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 24, 2022
If Manchin and Collins are genuinely surprised and irate, there's an easy fix: suspend filibuster, enlarge court, add 4 justices, overrule Dobbs. It would blow up Court, and I'm not saying I'm for it; but OTOH the Court is now positioned to be a regressive force for a generation.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 25, 2022
Harry's Hits: Week of June 12, 2022
MEDIA HITS
HARRY SPEAKS WTH NICOLLE WALLACE ABOUT CLARK’S CRIMINAL LIABILITY REGARDING THE JAN 6 HEARINGS ON DEADLINE WHITE HOUSE
JUNE 14, 2022
"Is [Clark] looking at criminal liability? You bet, and that's why he and his lawyer have insisted on taking the 5th, because this was a scheme he was attempting to do to make... GA officials... overturn the lawful results of the election" - @harrylitman w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/yNg6IfwS7q
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) June 14, 2022
HARRY APPEARS ON CBS’S RED AND BLUE TO DISCUSS WHETHER THE JAN 6 HEARINGS COULD PROMPT THE DOJ TO LAUNCH A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INTO TRUMP
JUNE 14, 2022
TOP TWEETS THIS WEEK
Look for more damning evidence against Trump from his own people tomorrow inc his campaign manager and his US attorney in Georgia, who was fired for not endorsing the big lie. Imagining the killer cross-examination if Trump or a surrogate ever were to assert the kool aid defense.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 13, 2022
Listen to Trump's tone, just dripping with arrogance: "we were getting ready to win this election. Frankly we did win this election." This should be played on a loop at the Trump library. He's a classic sneering two-bit criminal, just doubling and redoubling down on a total lie
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 13, 2022
Seeing Rudy, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis a second time around looking into the camera and spouting lie after brazen lie, with the impact of tearing this country apart, is infuriating.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 13, 2022
Barr: Trump was generally "the weak element on the PA ballot." got to be killing Trump to hear that in particular. Barr is deftly and repeatedly twisting the knife.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 13, 2022
22 federal judges appointed by Rs, several by Trump, rejected Trump claims. 11 lawyers referred for discipline.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 13, 2022
Money went to a Save America PAC, unrelated to election efforts. Unreal.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 13, 2022
Interesting that the Republican rotten peanut gallery – McCarthy, Jordan et al– have been basically silent this last week. It’s not out of goodwill or courtesy. Presumably they’ve concluded they would look like idiots trying to rebut the tidal wave of evidence. Thank you, J6C!
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 14, 2022
Wow--new reporting makes clear how close we came to a coup-by-law (ie DOJ). But for threat of mass resignations by honorable public officials, all might have been lost. Looking forward to discussing on @DeadlineWH w/ @NicolleDWallace + @woodruffbets & @nickconfessore at 4 PM ET.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 14, 2022
There’s a lot of maneuvering going on involving the DOJ/Jeff Clark hearing, which was supposed to be tomorrow. I’m thinking we’re going to learn that the postponement is not just a matter of more time for tired aides to put the slides together.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 15, 2022
End of the road for Trump -- and Ivanka and Jr -- trying to evade the deposition in NY AG James's civil action. The highest court in NY turned down his appeal. Absent a ridiculous & quickly denied cert pen to Sup Ct, look for him to have to raise his right hand in a month or so
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 15, 2022
Wow. Details of Loudermilk tour far more sinister than he has admitted. Here is video from Committee combining tour on Jan 5-you can see the guy taking pictures of unusual places—and then in rally next day saying they are coming to get Pelosi Schumer etc https://t.co/nXUQiaKVXq
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 15, 2022
Eastman clerked for Luttig. Luttig is much revered and was perhaps the single most prominent conservative judge on the court of appeals. Eastman is a pipsqueak and rogue. Today is going to be like Luttig taking down Eastman’s pants and spanking him in front of the whole country.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 16, 2022
Imagine Luttig saying these things about a former clerk of his. Just a complete disgrace & public shellacking. Either Eastman a blithering idiot--he'd probably prefer that--or a rank criminal willing to pur a coup. He is 100% forever toast now; Q is just can he avoid jail.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 16, 2022
"I don't want to be your friend anymore if you don't do this."
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 16, 2022
Not clear if you could convict him of attempted murder of the Vice President but not clear you couldn't. This has to be the darkest moment in Presidential history.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 16, 2022
Lots of Trump lawyers have had lots of bad days -- Giuliani license suspended, Powell under DOJ investigation for fraud, Ellis totally unmasked -- and hopefully there will be more to come. But I don't think any Trump lawyer has had as bad a day as John Eastman had today.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 16, 2022
In the meantime, it’s mid June and the Supreme Court has nearly 30 decisions left to issue including five or so barnburners. Get ready for a possibly insane week with three hearings and guns and the Court.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 13, 2022
Love this former Fox News guy -- he's so jazzed and enthusiastic about the technical details of making the call, beating the competition, having the right model. Lofgren: what were Trump's chances after losing Arizona (which Fox called first)? A: None.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 13, 2022
Barr: When Trump tell him about the Dominion machine "I became demoralized because I thought if he really believes this stuff he's lost touch with reality."
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 13, 2022
The Attorney General of the United States concludes that the President of the United States has lost touch with reality.
Giuliani committing brazen fraud on videotape. He's got serious potential criminal liability.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 13, 2022
Here you go: normally no litigation would occur past 12/14, but they continued to do it b/c they were able to raise millions of dollars from it. b/t Election Day and jan 6, campaign sent up to 20 emails/day to supporters. soliciting to a non-existent fund. Raised $250 million!
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 13, 2022
And another rage inducing revelation is the bombardment of supporters to cough up an other $20 for an "election fund" that he never even used for the election. He is just a grifter, and no grift too big or too small.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 13, 2022
Wow -- no wonder Clark took the 5th. Next hearing should be wild. "As Rosen and Donoghue listened, Clark told Trump that he would send the letter if the president named him attorney general.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 14, 2022
“History is calling,” Clark told the president."https://t.co/TGVwDWDJsb
The fundraising fraud revealed by the Committee on Monday--soliciting $250 M in donations for a non-existent election fund--is very similar to the conduct for which Steve Bannon was indicted (fraud for his "We Build the Wall" scam) and for which Sidney Powell now under DOJ inves.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 14, 2022
Hate crime charges filed against Buffalo shooter mean he is eligible for the federal death penalty.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 15, 2022
Bannon, scheduled to go to trial July 18 on contempt charges, in court today seeking to dismiss them, w/ lousy & rejected arguments: 1) Cong lacks authority; 2) Trump told him to assert privilege; and 3) DOJ internal policies preclude the charges. Look for trial to stay on track
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 15, 2022
Forget her marriage. The drip drip drip of involvement of Ginny Thomas continues, and she is now looking more and more like a full fledged potential co-conspirator of her own accord. Committee now has correspondence between her and John Eastman.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 16, 2022
Luttig seems almost pained to have to give such a simple and fundamental civics lesson. If Trump had prevailed, it would have been a revolution and the first constitutional crisis since the founding of the Republic.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 16, 2022
Luttig and Short both talk slow and in lawyer-speak. But that's sort of the point here. They are representing the rule of reason and sobriety, of law in a word; compare the frothing wild-eyed ravings of Giuliani and Eastman at the rally.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 16, 2022
This scheme, among the 7, may seem a little dry and lawyerly to many -- although there is pretty high drama and dastardliness in Trump's many-pronged pressure campaign--but for lawyers this is maybe the most breathtaking and offensive, b/c it's a straight up constitutional coup
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 16, 2022
Again hearing ends and it feels emotionally devastating. blood-draining fury. what they tried to do. what they almost did. words fail.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 16, 2022
As was clear to everyone, Judge Luttig is a serious man not given to hyperbole. So just so Luttig's tag line is not missed: “Donald Trump and his allies and supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy. “That’s not because of what happened on Jan. 6,...”
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 17, 2022
Harry's Hits: Week of June 6, 2022
MEDIA HITS
HARRY SPEAKS WTH NICOLLE WALLACE ABOUT CLARK’S CRIMINAL LIABILITY REGARDING THE JAN 6 HEARINGS ON DEADLINE WHITE HOUSE
JUNE 14, 2022
"Is [Clark] looking at criminal liability? You bet, and that's why he and his lawyer have insisted on taking the 5th, because this was a scheme he was attempting to do to make... GA officials... overturn the lawful results of the election" - @harrylitman w/ @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/yNg6IfwS7q
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) June 14, 2022
TOP TWEETS THIS WEEK
DOJ charging 5 proud boys with SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY -doesn’t get bigger or more serious than that.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 6, 2022
Seditious conspiracy- not for the faint of heart. Thanks very much as always @NicolleDWallace for including me at your great table, https://t.co/HubeyaJlfz
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 7, 2022
Turns out Dr. Oz, Newly victorious Republican candidate for Senate from Pennsylvania,is registered to vote in New Jersey, not Pennsylvania, and has been registered there since the 1980s.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 7, 2022
Judge Carter’s opinion denying Eastman’s claims of privilege over 150+ docs included this pretty huge finding: the crime w/ Eastman and Trump that he previously determined probably was committed “was fully formed and actionable as early as December 7, 2020.”
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 9, 2022
One of the docs that Judge Carter ordered Eastman to turn over is a 2nd piece of proof of a crime- it's an email from 12/20/20 discussing the "Jan 6 strategy" & plotting to avoid the courts because they could "tank the strategy." Also docs re communications w/ high level WH staff
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 9, 2022
The best trial lawyers and prosecutors find their own voice, the one that best communicates their credibility and trustworthiness. For Liz Cheney, that's calm, direct, methodical, not flashy. And she was magisterial with it this evening.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 10, 2022
My pick for the 5 biggest new reveals from the hearing:
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 10, 2022
5.Ivanka knows he lost; 4.Jared sees threats to resign as "whining"; 3.Congress Members sought pardons; 2. Trump:"Mob doing what they should be doing," & 1. "maybe our supporters have the right idea. Mike Pence deserves it."
How effective was it? Will it change hearts and minds? Ultimately, this has to be the wrong question. The Committee did an impeccable job of showing us the facts. It's to the American people to get it right and to preserve their entitlement to "a republic, if you can keep it."
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 10, 2022
Many trial lawyers - I was among them / put a lot of stock in sponsorship theory, meaning a jury or audience reacts differently to evidence depending on the source. Here the Committee’s use of Barr, Ivanka, even Cheney’s starring role, draws power from that idea.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 11, 2022
Look for more damning evidence against Trump from his own people tomorrow inc his campaign manager and his US attorney in Georgia, who was fired for not endorsing the big lie. Imagining the killer cross-examination if Trump or a surrogate ever were to assert the kool aid defense.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 13, 2022
Boom there it is! DOJ charges 5 Proud Boys with seditious conspiracy. Looking forward to discussing on @DeadlineWH with @NicolleDWallace at 4:20 ET
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 6, 2022
.@washingtonpost reports that Trump applied two weeks of persistent pressure on the Secret Service to devise a plan for him to join his supporters on a march to the Capitol from the park near the White House where he was leading a massive rally that he predicted would be “wild.”
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 7, 2022
other shoe falls. Judge Carter orders John Eastman to turn over tranche of 159 documents, rejecting Eastman's (bogus) argument that they were covered by attorney-client privilege.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 8, 2022
Immediate dividends from cooperation of Secret Service and Robert Engel, head of Trump detail. He will testify that Trump asked him about marching to Capitol with insurrectionists.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 9, 2022
On the basic goal of working fast and putting in a huge range of evidence but also punctuating with new and indelible moments, it’s a 10 out of 10.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 10, 2022
How effective was it? Will it change hearts and minds? Ultimately, this has to be the wrong question. The Committee did an impeccable job of showing us the facts. It's to the American people to get it right and to preserve their entitlement to "a republic, if you can keep it."
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 10, 2022
Jared's posture, word choice, general commentary all dripping with supreme arrogance. helped clarify his status as one of most if not most loathed figures in the Trump WH. https://t.co/dTEec5UrGA
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 10, 2022
Referral or no referral, prosecution or no prosecution, last night’s hearing was the most damning and dramatic indictment of any president in US history. Looking forward to discussing with @NicolleDWallace and her all-star ensemble on @DeadlineWH at 5 pm ET.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 10, 2022
Presumably the committee is holding out hope for some kind of cooperation from the recalcitrant Republican five, perhaps because revelations shame them or increase the political pressure to intolerable levels. Why else wouldn’t they have referred them to DOJ at this point?
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 11, 2022
In the meantime, it’s mid June and the Supreme Court has nearly 30 decisions left to issue including five or so barnburners. Get ready for a possibly insane week with three hearings and guns and the Court.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 13, 2022
Harry's Hits: Week of May 30, 2022
MEDIA HITS
LA TIMES COLUMN: THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD FIND THE ROE LEAKER. BUT THAT WON’T FIX WHAT’S BROKEN
TOP TWEETS THIS WEEK
Sussmann not guilty. Extremely fast verdict. more or less total humiliation for Durham. Jury presumably recognized the picayune pettiness of the case.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) May 31, 2022
Foreperson in Sussmann case told reporters that “politics were not a factor” and that she thought bringing the case had been unwise. Ouch! One thing to vote to acquit, much harsher to say the charges never should’ve been brought.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 1, 2022
New York appeals court upholds conviction for sexual assault of 2 women and 23-year prison sentence for Harvey Weinstein.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 2, 2022
Remember, Navarro is "Mr Green Bay Sweep," the author of a whole game plan of multiple actions to overturn the election, WHICH HE PUT IN A BOOK but refused to testify to Congress about
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 3, 2022
Another interesting point about Navarro: he also has been subpoenaed to testify before a DOJ federal grand jury. That's a separate action, but obviously now cross-cutting and had to have been carefully coordinated at DOJ.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 3, 2022
Navarro is a flamboyantly sketchy character somewhat in the Michael Flynn mold,but nothing about the facts of his contempt case required the DOJ to seal the indictment,arrest him, & keep him in custody.They're treating him like a severe flight risk; we'll likely find out why soon
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 3, 2022
Three years ago, a white supremacist with an assault weapon murdered 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 3, 2022
One week later the Prime Minister announced a nationwide ban on military-style assault weapons — and parliament passed it with near-unanimous support.
A reminder that DOJ’s hands were affectively tied: for political reasons they couldn’t dump Durham. But the lengthy investigation with zero results is an even stronger repudiation.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) May 31, 2022
The shooting in Tulsa was with a rifle. We are an abomination where guns are concerned.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 2, 2022
BOOM there it is: Navarro indicted for criminal contempt for snubbing Congress. Also answers the question about what the subpoena was for.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 3, 2022
Two counts for Navarro, one for refusal to testify, one for refusal to produce documents.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 3, 2022
.@maggieNYT scoop: Pence's Chief of Staff warned him and his security detail on Jan 5 that Trump was going to turn publicly against him, and there could be a security risk because of it.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 3, 2022
The revelations that Pence's folks feared a physical threat of him as of 1/5 are impt evidence of TRUMP's state of mind. The worst texts from Meadows show Trump as unconcerned about Pence on 1/6; this shows Trump must at least have known about the threat and in advance.
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 3, 2022
Meet your likely star witness:
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) June 5, 2022
Cassidy Hutchinson has recalled for the committee various episodes in the chaotic scramble to sustain Trump’s election-fraud falsehood. A mid-level aide, she kept detailed schedules of movements in the West Wing and spoke extensively with Meadows.