Pat Cipollone, the Whiten House Counsel, the lawyer for the OFFICE of the Presidency , NOT the President is answering questions in front of the Federal criminal grand jury as I type this….
Cipollone, a lawyer…Has his own lawyer…..
This is another criminal case with Donald Trump’s name in it , seperate from the doucuments one…
This is about Trump’s look for fake electors to overturn the actaul electors based on the 2020 Presidential vote totals in the states….
(The Fulton County, Ga. DA is looking at the same thing in Georgia)
Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel during the Trump administration, appeared at federal court on Friday to testify before a grand jury probing events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Cipollone and his attorney Michael Purpura were greeted in the hallway by Thomas Windom, the lead prosecutor investigating a failed bid by former President Donald Trump’s allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election by submitting alternative slates of fake electors to the U.S. National Archives…
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The two men are the two most high-profile witnesses to date to appear before the grand jury. Others who have appeared to testify include former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, and Greg Jacob, who was Pence’s top counsel….
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In recent months, the Justice Department has delivered grand jury subpoenas to numerous individuals who may have knowledge about the bid to submit the phony slates, as well as some of the individuals who signed the bogus certificates themselves.
The subpoenas ask for copies of documents related to “any effort, plan or attempt to serve as an elector in favor of Donald J. Trump and/or Mike R. Pence.”…