DOJ/CFT Subpoenas: Trump’s Campaign for a New Pennsylvanian Abelian Voting Code and a Federal Investigation into Cosmic Copying
The Department of Justice’s special Counsel subpoenaed us regarding the 2020 election. We have nothing further to share or provide,” said Amie Downs, the county’s communications director.
Those efforts included putting forward slates of pro-Trump electors and filing baseless lawsuits. CNN reported this summer that the DOJ subpoenaed information from all seven states where Trump convened the false electors in order to subvert the Electoral College.
In November 2020, Trump’s campaign team fought in court to throw out over 10,000 absentee ballots in Philadelphia and Allegheny counties that were missing dates or names. Those attempts were rejected by Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court, which argued in its opinion that “while constituting technical violations of the Election Code, [the mistakes] do not warrant the wholesale disenfranchisement of thousands of Pennsylvanian voters.”
The subpoenas sought to get communications from local officials with the Trump campaign, as well as a list of people who worked with or advised him. A copy of the subpoena sent to the Milwaukee County clerk was obtained by CNN before Trump left office.
The group wants a federal investigation into allegations of a multi- state conspiracy to copy voting software.
The Investigative Report on Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Attempts to Overturn the 2020 Election and the Conservation of Presidential Documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Estate
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith last month to oversee parts of the Justice Department’s criminal investigations into attempts to overturn the 2020 election and the retention of classified documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. He will be given the responsibility to make policy decisions on whether or not to charge Trump.
The email cache shows that the three were in touch with the congressman a number of times after the election. A group of emails and attached documents were initially routed by the DOJ’s filter team, but they then allowed prosecutors to access 37 records.
The order made public Thursday shows how broad the federal prosecutors are willing to go in order to get information from the top Trump supporters.
Court documents show how investigators carefully looked over attorney communications that could have been considered confidential, used a filter team to catalog what they collected and then went through the federal court to get access to some documents.
Earlier this year, Clark declined to answer questions to several investigative teams, citing his Fifth Amendment rights, and had marked on his autobiography drafts that they were attorney work-product, implying he wanted them to remain confidential.
One filing said, “Clark penned the autobiography outline in an atmosphere charged with news that congressional committees’ investigations into the January 6, 2020 Capitol attack and other efforts to overturn the 2020 election were increasingly focusing on his role.” According to the opinion, six chapters were about the 2020 election.
He would be wrong if he had thought after the 2000 election that he would have a bird’s eye view of a second presidential election.
Klukowski acknowledges in an email that he and a friend spoke about state legislatures being able to determine the presidential election, and attached a document about it.
Three emails showed Eastman discussing a phone call with Perry in mid-December 2021. The man from PA is congressman Scott Perry. Can you get in touch right away? one said around December 11.
Federal investigators searched the phones of four men as part of a DOJ criminal investigation around January 6. CNN reported earlier this week that the DOJ had an argument with the Texan over access to his phone data because of constitutional protections for members of congress. Whether or not that has been resolved is questionable.
The documents were handed by officials in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, and Clark County, Nevada, in response to Smith’s subpoena. They include communications with lawyers working on former President Donald Trump’s behalf.
Among them is James Troupis, an attorney behind a failed lawsuit challenging the election results in Wisconsin. Troupis also was involved in efforts to put forward slates of fake electors from key battleground states that Trump had lost as well as in the pressure campaign on then-Vice President Mike Pence to not certify the election results on January 6, according to documents released by the House January 6 committee.
In searching for information sought by the subpoenas, “Milwaukee County focused on the County employees who most frequently communicated with attorneys and surrogates for the Trump campaign leading up to the election and after, including during the pendency of the recount,” the county wrote to Smith.